Roman Stocker

Rapid chemotactic response enables marine bacteria to exploit ephemeral microscale nutrient patches.

Experimental verification of the behavioral foundation of bacterial transport parameters using microfluidics.

Disruption of vertical motility by shear triggers formation of thin phytoplankton layers.

Separation of microscale chiral objects by shear flow.

Microbiology. Tumbling for stealth?

Chemoattraction to dimethylsulfoniopropionate throughout the marine microbial food web.

Bacterial chemotaxis in linear and nonlinear steady microfluidic gradients.

Filtration of submicrometer particles by pelagic tunicates.

Microfluidics for bacterial chemotaxis.

How cats lap: water uptake by Felis catus.

Diffusion-limited retention of porous particles at density interfaces.

Reverse and flick: Hybrid locomotion in bacteria.

Microbial alignment in flow changes ocean light climate.

The ciliate Paramecium shows higher motility in non-uniform chemical landscapes.

On the water lapping of felines and the water running of lizards: A unifying physical perspective.

Gyrotaxis in a steady vortical flow.

Response rescaling in bacterial chemotaxis.

Systematic spatial bias in DNA microarray hybridization is caused by probe spot position-dependent variability in lateral diffusion.

Microfluidic characterization and continuous separation of cells and particles using conducting poly(dimethyl siloxane) electrode induced alternating current-dielectrophoresis.

Low-Reynolds-number swimming at pycnoclines.

Bacterial rheotaxis.

Thin phytoplankton layers: characteristics, mechanisms, and consequences.

Marine microbes see a sea of gradients.

Trade-offs of chemotactic foraging in turbulent water.

Ecology and physics of bacterial chemotaxis in the ocean.

Turbulence drives microscale patches of motile phytoplankton.

The extracellular matrix Component Psl provides fast-acting antibiotic defense in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms.

Capillary interception of floating particles by surface-piercing vegetation.

A bacterial pathogen uses dimethylsulfoniopropionate as a cue to target heat-stressed corals.

Synergistic prevention of biofouling in seawater desalination by zwitterionic surfaces and low-level chlorination.

Variability in microbial community composition and function between different niches within a coral reef.

Turbulent fluid acceleration generates clusters of gyrotactic microorganisms.

Competition-dispersal tradeoff ecologically differentiates recently speciated marine bacterioplankton populations.

Single-cell genomics reveals hundreds of coexisting subpopulations in wild Prochlorococcus.

Microfluidics expanding the frontiers of microbial ecology.

RecA protein plays a role in the chemotactic response and chemoreceptor clustering of Salmonella enterica.

Failed escape: solid surfaces prevent tumbling of Escherichia coli.

Vortical ciliary flows actively enhance mass transport in reef corals.

Chemotaxis by natural populations of coral reef bacteria.

Microbes in flow.

Sensitivity of the rate of nutrient uptake by chemotactic bacteria to physical and biological parameters in a turbulent environment.

Shear-induced orientational dynamics and spatial heterogeneity in suspensions of motile phytoplankton.

Live from under the lens: exploring microbial motility with dynamic imaging and microfluidics.

Temperature-induced behavioral switches in a bacterial coral pathogen.

Physical limits on bacterial navigation in dynamic environments.

Chemotaxis toward phytoplankton drives organic matter partitioning among marine bacteria.

That sinking feeling: Suspended sediments can prevent the ascent of coral egg bundles.

A coral-on-a-chip microfluidic platform enabling live-imaging microscopy of reef-building corals.

Sperm chemotaxis promotes individual fertilization success in sea urchins.

Microfluidic Studies of Biofilm Formation in Dynamic Environments.

Intermittent turbulence in flowing bacterial suspensions.

Speed-dependent chemotactic precision in marine bacteria.

Natural search algorithms as a bridge between organisms, evolution, and ecology.

The Microbial Olympics 2016.

Resilience of bacterial quorum sensing against fluid flow.

Validation of picogram- and femtogram-input DNA libraries for microscale metagenomics.

A particularly useful system to study the ecology of microbes.

Phytoplankton can actively diversify their migration strategy in response to turbulent cues.

Deployable micro-traps to sequester motile bacteria.

Dual function of tropodithietic acid as antibiotic and signaling molecule in global gene regulation of the probiotic bacterium Phaeobacter inhibens.

High-avidity IgA protects the intestine by enchaining growing bacteria.

Zooming in on the phycosphere: the ecological interface for phytoplankton-bacteria relationships.

Biofilm disruption by an air bubble reveals heterogeneous age-dependent detachment patterns dictated by initial extracellular matrix distribution.

Logarithmic sensing in aerotaxis.

A microfluidics-based in situ chemotaxis assay to study the behaviour of aquatic microbial communities.

Redefining the sponge-symbiont acquisition paradigm: sponge microbes exhibit chemotaxis towards host-derived compounds.

Heterologous Expression of Pseudomonas putida Methyl-Accepting Chemotaxis Proteins Yields Escherichia coli Cells Chemotactic to Aromatic Compounds.

Synthesis and degradation of FtsZ quantitatively predict the first cell division in starved bacteria.

A Foraging Mandala for Aquatic Microorganisms.

An automated Raman-based platform for the sorting of live cells by functional properties.

The role of microbial motility and chemotaxis in symbiosis.

Publisher Correction: An automated Raman-based platform for the sorting of live cells by functional properties.

Bacterial chemotaxis in a microfluidic T-maze reveals strong phenotypic heterogeneity in chemotactic sensitivity.

Bacteria push the limits of chemotactic precision to navigate dynamic chemical gradients.

Bacterial maze runners reveal hidden diversity in chemotactic performance.

Not Just Going with the Flow: The Effects of Fluid Flow on Bacteria and Plankton.

Chain formation can enhance the vertical migration of phytoplankton through turbulence.

On the collision of rods in a quiescent fluid.

Bacterial Glycogen Provides Short-Term Benefits in Changing Environments.

Raman-based sorting of microbial cells to link functions to their genes.

Single-cell bacterial transcription measurements reveal the importance of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) hotspots in ocean sulfur cycling.

The effect of flow on swimming bacteria controls the initial colonization of curved surfaces.

Bursts Characterize Coagulation of Rods in a Quiescent Fluid.

Flagellar kinematics reveals the role of environment in shaping sperm motility.

PhenoChip: A single-cell phenomic platform for high-throughput photophysiological analyses of microalgae.

Constrained optimal foraging by marine bacterioplankton on particulate organic matter.

Trophic Interactions and the Drivers of Microbial Community Assembly.

Rational design of a microbial consortium of mucosal sugar utilizers reduces Clostridiodes difficile colonization.

Optofluidic Raman-activated cell sorting for targeted genome retrieval or cultivation of microbial cells with specific functions.

Environmental fluctuations and their effects on microbial communities, populations and individuals.

Sequential capillarity-assisted particle assembly in a microfluidic channel.

Roadmap on emerging concepts in the physical biology of bacterial biofilms: from surface sensing to community formation.

Bistability in oxidative stress response determines the migration behavior of phytoplankton in turbulence.

An interdisciplinary and application-oriented approach to teach microfluidics.

ARC: An Open Web-Platform for Request/Supply Matching for a Prioritized and Controlled COVID-19 Response.

Nutrient complexity triggers transitions between solitary and colonial growth in bacterial populations.

Mechanistic model of nutrient uptake explains dichotomy between marine oligotrophic and copiotrophic bacteria.

A distinct growth physiology enhances bacterial growth under rapid nutrient fluctuations.

Coral mucus rapidly induces chemokinesis and genome-wide transcriptional shifts toward early pathogenesis in a bacterial coral pathogen.

Using High-Sensitivity Lipidomics To Assess Microscale Heterogeneity in Oceanic Sinking Particles and Single Phytoplankton Cells.