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.

Juan will be speaking at HKUST IAS’s workshop on “Physics Approach on Simplifying Complexity in Biology” to be held in Hong Kong December 15-19 . From the program: “Both conventional physics and conventional biology fail to get at the heart of what makes biological systems such a unique state of matter…”. Find an overview of the workshop, the full program and the line up of speakers here.

Juan will be speaking at the workshop “Structural Biology and Nanophysiology” to be held at PUC December 10-12. The academic is program available here.

Second Chilean Meeting on Synthetic Biology

On September 29th, on campus San Juaquin at the Center for Innovation UC is the second Chilean Meeting on Synthetic Biology which we have co-organized with others at PUC and which has been possible thanks to the support of PUC’s VRI funds. For more info on the line-up of speakers, program, organizers see the flyer.

Segunda Reunion de Biologica Sintetica de Chile

Este 29 the Septiembre en el Campus San Juaquin, en el Centro de Innovación UC es la segunda reunion de Biologia Sintetica en la PUC que junto a otros en la Universidad hemos co-organizado gracias al apoyo del la VRI. Para ver mas info sobre expositores, temas, horarios y organizadores ver el poster.

Felix and Thias ms Nutrient-responsive regulation determines biodiversity in a colicin-mediated bacterial community was finally published today in BMC Biology. Thanks to all who helped!