G. Hardo

Single-cell imaging of the lytic phage life cycle in bacteria

This study uses time-lapse imaging to analyze phage infection dynamics in bacteria, revealing heterogeneity and its impact on phage fitness.

Quantitative microbiology with widefield microscopy: navigating optical artefacts for accurate interpretations

This study identifies artefacts in 2D widefield microscopy of microbial cells caused by diffraction and projection effects, and proposes experimental designs and machine learning methods to improve quantification accuracy.

SyMBac: Synthetic Micrographs for Accurate Segmentation of Bacterial Cells using Deep Neural Networks

SyMBac generates synthetic bacterial micrographs for deep learning segmentation, outperforming human-annotated data in accuracy and robustness across imaging conditions.

Designing synthetic bacterial consortia for landfill leachate treatment based on community matrices and regression tree analysis

This paper develops a workflow to design synthetic bacterial consortia for landfill leachate treatment by analyzing growth interactions using factorial experiments and regression tree analysis.