February 2019

3-dimensional tracking of a free swimming bacterial cell (Shewanella putrefaciens) in cooperation with the research group of Prof. Dr. Laurence Wilson (University of York, UK). The image is part of a study on bacteria motility published in Nature Communications recently, financed by DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm SPP 1726 ('Microswimmers'), a collaborative study by the Kai Thormann group (iFZ), Bruno Eckhardt (Philipps University Marburg) and Laurence Wilson (University of York, UK).

Kühn et al. (2018) Spatial arrangement of several flagellins within bacterial flagella improves motility in different environments. Nat. Comm. 9: 5369. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07802-w

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Prof. Dr. Kai Thormann, Microbiology and Molecular Biology