Lev Tsimring

Scientist. Photographer. Interested in all kinds of patterns: physical, biological, human.

and

[Lev Tsimring @LevTsimring]

Check out our latest paper in Nature Microbiology, on bidirectional coupling between bacterial populations and their micro-environments, and how we can control and exploit that using tools of synthetic biology.

[Emergent Dynamics in Living Systems @BittihnGroup]

My last big postdoc paper combining #synbio & #physics to control self-organization of bacterial colonies in space & time is finally out @NatureMicrobiol. Many thanks to my amazing co-authors @ADidovyk, @LevTsimring & Jeff Hasty, & everyone @UCSD_BDL. Details will follow shortly.

[Emergent Dynamics in Living Systems @BittihnGroup]

My last big postdoc paper combining #synbio & #physics to control self-organization of bacterial colonies in space & time is finally out @NatureMicrobiol. Many thanks to my amazing co-authors @ADidovyk, @LevTsimring & Jeff Hasty, & everyone @UCSD_BDL. Details will follow shortly.

[Lev Tsimring @LevTsimring]

this is a link to the paper itself https://t.co/EDpMtFGVaE

[Lev Tsimring @LevTsimring]

Our paper on floral patterns in mixtures of bacteria is just out in eLife!
https://t.co/jtsiU7zDxh

Read the press release here https://t.co/bpR1AjEhPR

[Robert Cooper @PonderingSci]

Great work by Liyang on this paper! Definitely check out the movies, some really beautiful #ArtSci / #SciArt, with the math to understand why and how it happens. https://t.co/DHTJvO6fnc @eLife

[Lev Tsimring @LevTsimring]

woo-hoo! Great work @PhilipBittihn!

[Assert Biorxiv @assert_pub]

"Engineered phenotype patterns in microbial populations" is the #1 paper on bioRxiv today in synthetic biology. Congrats @LevTsimring. See it at -> https://t.co/Mho8AP8xD0 and https://t.co/FZP7Mj5WeV. Please retweet.

[Lev Tsimring @LevTsimring]

@EvolvedBiofilm precisely! and of course in different situations leading to biofilms, motility may play greater or lesser role.

[Lev Tsimring @LevTsimring]

@EvolvedBiofilm Thanks for the reference, we'll look into that

[Lev Tsimring @LevTsimring]

@EvolvedBiofilm I suspect that without the matrix A.baylyi will simply overrun E.coli and "pull away". Would be an interesting experiment, if it is indeed known how to rid A.baylyi of its EPS.

[Lev Tsimring @LevTsimring]

@EvolvedBiofilm and no, we did not do those experiments, but I am pretty confident that structure will be different, since the effect is certainly due to physical properties (stresses, lubrication, friction) of the growing colony.

[Lev Tsimring @LevTsimring]

@EvolvedBiofilm I think biofilms can form in a myriad of different ways. We demonstrate here one of them, and it certainly produces a beautiful biofilm in the end ))

[Lev Tsimring @LevTsimring]

When a mixture of E.coli and A.baylyi bacteria grow together in a Petri dish, they form these beautiful "flowers". Our paper reporting this discovery and its explanation has just been submitted. You can read preprint here https://t.co/6k50rMAv81

[UCSD Biodynamics Lab @UCSD_BDL]

Happy #ValentinesDay from 2 bacteria species growing a flower just for you!

We'd say they're in love, but one tends to kill the other... #sciart #ScienceValentines #synbio

"Flower-like patterns in multi-species biofilms", Xiong, Cao, Cooper, Rappel, Hasty, Tsimring (submitted)