Biophysical principles of microbial interactions

该项目涉及土壤细菌及其共生伙伴，植物根和土壤藻类之间相互作用的生物物理学。该研究将研究趋化细菌在多孔介质和光生物反应器内流动环境中向共生伙伴的迁移。这种行为将被实验量化，并在理论上和计算上建模。该研究将阐明趋化游泳和流体流动在微生物共生关系的建立和维持中的作用，对农业和环境生物技术的改进具有重要意义。

This project concerns the biophysics of interactions between soil bacteria and their symbiotic partners, plant roots and soil algae. The research will study the migration of chemotactic bacteria to symbiotic partners in porous media and flowing environments within photobioreactors. This behaviour will be quantified experimentally, and modelled theoretically and computationally. The research will elucidate the role of chemotactic swimming and fluid flow in establishing and maintaining microbial symbioses, which is important for the improvement of agricultural and environmental biotechnologies.