Alejandro Martínez-Calvo

This study identifies the kinase KEY1 as a regulator of pyrenoid condensate size and dynamics in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, showing it disrupts phase separation interactions to control condensate dissolution during the cell cycle.

The paper shows that bacterial chemotaxis allows Escherichia coli to form fronts that escape phage predation without resistance.

This study investigates how confinement affects bacterial populations by showing that Escherichia coli in quasi-2D droplets self-organize into a core-shell structure driven by oxygen dynamics and motility.

This paper proposes a self-organization strategy for enzyme clustering based on substrate-dependent stickiness, showing significant increases in pathway flux and reductions in toxic metabolites.

The paper develops a continuum model to study interfacial morphodynamics in microbial communities, finding that interface stability depends on cell proliferation rates and substrate friction.

This study models mutualistic interactions between aerobes and anaerobes, revealing bistable and oscillatory dynamics in microbial communities under varying environmental conditions.