Our paper on “to swim or not to swim during starvation” published in Nature Microbiology
During carbon starvation, motility may help bacteria to swim out of trouble, but at great energetic cost. Marine bacteria have developed two strategies…
Category: Featured News
Eperimental Microfulidics: a Short Course
When: In Person 16-20 June 2025, Online 16-19 June 2025 – Explore the fundamental principles of microfluidic technology and gain hands-on experience through…
Enhancing Fish Passage Efficiency: New Study for Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) by Dr. Luiz Silva’s Ecohydraulics Team
Our Ecohydraulics Team has completed a study for the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) aimed at assessing the efficiency of fish…
Our paper on bacterial ixotrophy published in Science
How do microbes survive and thrive in heterogeneous environments where nutrient concentrations fluctuate in space and time? In collaboration with Martin Pilhofer’s group…
Numerical modeling of column experiments to study arsenic immobilization in groundwater from Yinchuan Basin, China
Keywords Water resources, groundwater, arsenic fate in soil, numerical modeling Description Groundwater arsenic of natural origin is a global issue affecting the health…
Our paper on the bacterial degradation of lipids in marine particles with Ben van Mooy’s group appears in Science
How do microbial behaviour and interactions influence carbon storage in the deep sea? An international team of researchers, co-led by Professor Roman Stocker,…
Load More