Nicola R. Stanley‐Wall

The paper shows that bacterial motility reduces surface tension in soil, enhancing water infiltration and rewetting.

This study shows that disrupting quorum-sensing pathways in Bacillus subtilis provides a competitive advantage by increasing growth rate, with such mutations found in ~16% of isolates.

This study shows that extracellular proteases and matrix molecules interact to influence biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis, with proteases supporting biofilm even when nitrogen is freely available.