Sujit Sankar Datta

This study investigates how Naegleria amoebae navigate narrow spaces and environments, finding they use bleb-based motility and exhibit memory-guided movement that may aid in pathogenesis.

This study shows that soil texture affects bacterial motility and chemotactic recruitment to plant roots by altering pore-scale dynamics and effective diffusivity.

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 study shows that nutrient availability limits antibiotic efficacy in structured bacterial populations by creating a traveling death front, which can be overcome or exacerbated by nutrient supply changes.

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 shows that bacterial colonies form serpentine 'cables' in polymer-rich environments due to entropic attraction and hindered diffusion, revealing new principles of morphogenesis in complex media.

This study shows that bacterial growth in rheologically complex environments is regulated by the balance between environmental yield stress and external forcing.

This study investigates how bacterial swimming and fluid flows affect phage infection rates, finding hydrodynamic interactions enhance infection at flagella while suppressing it at the cell body.

This study develops a theoretical model of bacteria-phage interactions showing how non-reciprocal predator-prey dynamics lead to complex spatial patterns in bacterial and phage organization.

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