Y. Wakamoto

The paper shows that a single mutation in E. coli enables it to become an insect mutualist by disrupting carbon catabolite repression.

The paper characterizes persister cell dynamics in E. coli by tracking individual cells exposed to antibiotics, revealing diverse survival mechanisms depending on growth phase and antibiotic type.

The paper shows scale invariance in E. coli cell size distribution during reductive division under time-dependent conditions, supported by simulations and theoretical analysis.

This study shows that replicative aging does not occur in Schizosaccharomyces pombe under favorable conditions, and protein aggregates are not a major determinant of cell fate.