Ran Tao

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Microscopy, microfluidic devices, simulations, and journal covers from the lab and the field.

ICB journal cover — selective trapping of bacteria in porous media
Selective trapping of bacteria in porous media by cell length
Cell Newton journal front cover — bacterial upstream invasion
Invasion of bacteria swimming upstream into microstructured devices
PNAS 2025 figure: nitric oxide accelerates biofilm dispersal in V. cholerae
Nitric oxide promotes rapid development of motility to accelerate biofilm dispersal in Vibrio cholerae
Biophysical Journal cover: cytoskeletal symmetry under poroelastic loading
Poroelastic mechanical loading disrupts cytoskeletal symmetry in 3D architected scaffolds
PNAS 2024 figure: bacterial rheotaxis in non-Newtonian fluids
Enhancement of bacterial rheotaxis in non-Newtonian fluids
PRE 2021: soft particle clogging in 2D hopper
Soft particle clogging in two-dimensional hopper
mBio figure: archaeal quorum sensing motility transitions
A two-component regulatory system mediates quorum sensing–dependent morphology and motility transitions in Haloferax volcanii
Annual Review figure: biomedical active matter overview
Emergence of collective functionalities in biomedical active matter
Cross-phylum quorum sensing and cholera microbiota — fluorescence microscopy
Cross-phylum quorum sensing in dysbiosis drives cholera pathogenesis and microbiota structure
Bacterial upstream swimming in macromolecular flows — streak imaging
Giant enhancement of bacterial upstream swimming in macromolecular flows
Topological separation of bacteria in lattice microfluidic device
Topological separation of bacterial active matter
Bacterial invasion racing — multiflagellarity and upstream invasion
Multiflagellarity facilitates bacterial upstream invasion
AMR diagnostics — parallelized microfluidic array for urinary tract infection
Antimicrobial resistance risks urinary tract infection
Ran Tao in Rome
Outside the Colosseum, Rome.