Alfredo is joining the lab continuing his efforts to help us understand the spatial ecology of neuronal assemblages.

All the way from Baltimore, Miles made it to the south cone to start his PhD in Ecology @ PUC and to work with us learning and teaching theoretical ecology.

From January 1st 2016, Janneke is back with the Keymer Lab, this time as Lab Manager to help us keep calm.

Congratulations to Fabai who defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled Spatial organization in nano-sculptured bacteria, a tale of shape, scale, patterns, and genomes on October  27, 2015

Phys.org published a note about our artice on bacteria invading together an antibiotic landscapes without having develop yet antibiotic resistence. check it out here.

antibiotic landscapes

Congratulations to Fabai et al. for the cover of Nature Nanotechnology this week. Also, to make the world come full circle, our article was commented by Juan’s old office mate KC Huang.

NanotechnologyWeb.org threw this piece on Fabai’s and Bas’s amazing work on sculpting bacterial cells published in Nature Nanotechnology this week.

Biophysics of bacteria: linking cells to tissues

Juan （紀皇） will be given the bi-weekly “coloquio del Departamento de Fisica” @ PUC. In the colloquium, we will explore theoretical as well as experimental aspects related to the biophysics of bacteria. This emerging multidisciplinary field of research offers great opportunities for biologists and physicists at PUC to interact and learn from each other. To stimulate such meditation, I will briefly describe past and new research efforts being conducted at the keymer lab (http://lab.keymer.cl). Most of discussion will be around the issue of individual bacterial cell responses (chemotaxis, metabolism, division) and its linkage to metapopulation dynamics (aggregation, competition, cooperation) in spatially-distributed synthetic ecosystems.

Thursday, June 11 at 4:00 pm
Auditorio Prof. J. Krause, Department of Physics, Campus San Juaquin.

Felix’s The idiosyncrasy of spatial structure in bacterial competition. and Density-dependent adaptive resistance allows swimming bacteria to colonize an antibiotic gradient. as well as Fabai’s Symmetry and scale orient Min protein patterns in shaped bacterial sculptures. and Multicolor imaging of bacterial cell division with blue, orange and near-infrared fluorescent proteins are all manuscripts in press processing. Congrats to the heroes and thanks to all the supporting context. Bacteria are amazing. niet te doen.

We were awarded a Fondecyt Regular 2015 grant to study the “spatial biology of microbes: linking cell biophysics to ecosystem dynamics”. This is a three year project and we will be looking for students and postdocs.