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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
Cross-phylum quorum sensing in dysbiosis drives cholera pathogenesis and microbiota structure
Bacterial upstream swimming in macromolecular flows
Giant enhancement of bacterial upstream swimming in macromolecular flows
Topological separation of bacteria in lattice microfluidic device
Topological separation of bacterial active matter
Multiflagellarity and bacterial upstream invasion
Multiflagellarity facilitates bacterial upstream invasion
AMR diagnostics — urinary tract infection microfluidics
Antimicrobial resistance risks urinary tract infection
Ran Tao in Rome
Outside the Colosseum, Rome.