Spatial self-assembly of microbial populations
Model for quorum-sensing mediated stochastic biofilm formation
P. Sinclair, C. A. Brackley, M. Carballo-Pacheco and R. J. Allen
Physical Review Letters (2022)
Reviewed in Nature Reviews Physics: "Fluctuating into a biofilm" by Zoe Budrikis (2022)
A computational model for microbial colonisation of an antifouling surface
P. Sinclair, J. Longyear, K. Reynolds, A. A. Finnie, C. A. Brackley, M. Carballo-Pacheco and R. J. Allen
Frontiers in Microbiology 13 920014 (2022)
Lineage dynamics in growing biofilms: spatial patterns of standing vs. de novo diversity
E. Young and R. J. Allen
Frontiers in Microbiology 13 915095 (2022)
Bacterial growth: a statistical physicist's guide
R. J. Allen and B. Waclaw
Reports on Progress in Physics 82, 016601 (2019)
A simulation study of aggregation mediated by production of cohesive molecules
G. Melaugh, D. Marenduzzo, A. Morozov and R. J. Allen
Soft Matter 15, 9120 (2019)
The Pseudomonas aeruginosa polysaccharide PSL is a social but non-cheatable trait in biofilms
Y. Irie, A. Roberts, K. Kragh, V. Gordon, J. Hutchison, R. Allen, G. Melaugh, T. Bjarnsholt, S. West and S. Diggle
mBio 8, e00374-17 (2017)
Role of pre-formed aggregates during Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm development
- K. Kragh*, J. Hutchison*, G. Melaugh*, C. Rodesney, A. Roberts, Y. Irie, P. Jensen, S. Diggle, R. J. Allen**, V. D. Gordon** and T. Bjarnsholt** (*, ** = equal contribution)
mBio 7, e00237-16 (2016)
Shaping the growth behaviour of biofilms initiated from bacterial aggregates
- G. Melaugh, J. Hutchison, K. Kragh, Y. Irie, A. Roberts, T. Bjarnsholt, S. Diggle, V. Gordon and R. J. Allen
Plos One 11, e0149683 (2016)
Competition for space during bacterial colonisation of a surface
- D. P. Lloyd and R. J. Allen
J. R. Soc. Interface 12, 20150608 (2015)
- M. A. A. Grant, B. Waclaw, R. J. Allen and P. Cicuta
J. R. Soc. Interface 11, 20140400 (2014)
01/11/2022
A warm welcome to our new group assistant Mr Moritz Wiegand!
30/10/2022
Congratulations to Nia Verdon who has submitted her PhD thesis!
15/10/2022
We are advertising an experimental postdoc position on biophysics of microbial aggregation in the context of the human gut microbiome. Please publicise it! Deadline is 22nd November.
01/10/2022
Check out our student Patrick Sinclair's paper in Physical Review Letters presenting a model for stochastic initiation of bacterial biofilms - and a commentary on it in Nature Reviews Physics.
30/09/2022
Congratulations to Patrick Sinclair who has successfully defended his PhD thesis!