Peter J. Yunker

This study shows that increasing matrix production in Salmonella biofilms reorganizes their structure, altering antimicrobial killing patterns and reducing antimicrobial survival.

This study identifies bacterial genera using 3D surface topography features with 97% accuracy, showing taxonomic information persists at the population morphology level.

This study shows that highly antibiotic-resistant bacteria can inadvertently help susceptible strains survive, revealing an ecological cost to extreme resistance that limits its spread.

This study shows that increasing cell-substrate friction increases biofilm contact angle and decreases horizontal expansion rate.

The paper shows that a heuristic model for bacterial biofilm vertical growth emerges from active fluid dynamics principles, explaining its behavior through a simplified equation.

This study shows that metabolically-driven fluid flows in yeast clusters enable exponential growth by overcoming nutrient transport limitations, mimicking circulatory systems without genetic adaptations.

This study shows oxygen-binding proteins enhance fitness in larger organisms under high oxygen conditions by improving oxygen diffusion efficiency.

This study shows that the horizontal expansion rate of bacterial colonies is controlled by the contact angle at the biofilm edge, validated through experimental measurements and theoretical modeling.

This study investigates the roughening of bacterial biofilms and finds that their surfaces remain smooth despite stochastic growth, due to a mechanism that freezes topographic fluctuations.