We strive to make micro scale processes and microbial interactions ‘come to life’,
through both experimental and conceptual images and videos.
Feel free to download them and please credit them as indicated.
Streamer Formation
Phase-contrast video of P. aeruginosa PA14 WT biofilm streamers tethered to a micropillar.
Credits: Savorana et al., Softmatter 2022
Fish swimming in flow
Credits: Robert Naudascher
How nutrients spread in a turbulent sea
Credits: John Taylor and Roman Stocker;
see paper in Science, 2012.
FTLE reveals chaotic mixing in dense bacterial suspensions
Dense bacterial suspensions undergo collective motion which dramatically stretches and folds its fluid, indicative of chaotic mixing. Degree of mixing quantified by analysis of the FTLE field.
Credits: Dr. Richard Henshaw
Cutta Cutta
Cutta the cat drinking milk (67x slower).
Credits: Pedro Reis, Sunny Jung, Jeff Aristoff and Roman Stocker; see paper in Science, 2010.