Abhishek Shrivastava

The paper identifies a sensory pathway in Flavobacterium johnsoniae that controls the transition between swarming and zorbing, linking environmental sensing to collective behavior and spatial organization.

This paper shows that Pseudomonas aeruginosa maintains monoflagellation via the FleQ-FleN circuit, and hyperflagellation leads to fitness defects, suggesting regulatory plasticity enables adaptive evolution of flagellar configurations.

The paper identifies how the C-terminus of GldJ controls the rotational direction of the T9SS in Flavobacterium johnsoniae, revealing a mechanism for directional gliding motility.

The paper reports the evolution of a gut microbial glutamate decarboxylase to produce neuromodulatory molecules with increased taurine productivity and substrate specificity.

The paper studies T9SS-driven bacterial swarms, showing they transition through phase changes to form scattered microcolonies, reducing competition in the oral microbiota.

The paper catalogs motile microbes in the human oral microbiota and documents their evolutionary connections through phylogenetic analysis of motility systems.