ReviewLab on a chip2024
Microfluidic approaches in microbial ecology.
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25 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Metabolic feedbacks drive population dynamics and can lead to oscillations among leaf bacteria.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- A Droplet-Based Microfluidic Platform for Rapid Optical Detection of Bacteria: Proof-of-Concept for Radiopharmaceutical Sterility Testing.Micromachines · 2026Article
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- Microbiota-host interaction in colorectal cancer: emerging computational technology, multi-omics integration, and mechanisms.Cancer biology & medicine · 2026Review
- Influence of cell-cell distance on the ecology and evolution of microbial communities.The ISME journal · 2026Review
- Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2026Review
- Simultaneous real-time imaging of oxygen gradients and in vivo microbial community spatial organization in confined environments.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Decoding the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of bacterial virulence gene expression using single-cell approaches.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Microfluidics to Meet Antibiotic Resistance: A Growing Research Frontier.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- A Review of the Application of Compliance Phenomenon in Particle Separation Within Microfluidic Systems.Micromachines · 2025Review
- Bacterial Systematic Genetics and Integrated Multi-Omics: Beyond Static Genomics Toward Predictive Models.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Phage provoke growth delays and SOS response induction despite CRISPR-Cas protection.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Disentangling the feedback loops driving spatial patterning in microbial communities.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2025Review
- Individual-based modeling unravels spatial and social interactions in bacterial communities.The ISME journal · 2025Review
- Climate history modulates stress responses of common soil bacteria under experimental drought.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Hyphal growth determines spatial organization and coexistence in a pathogenic polymicrobial community in a spatially structured environment.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Bacterial volatile organic compound specialists in the phycosphere.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- PyUAT: An open-source Python framework for uncertainty-aware, efficient, and scalable model-driven cell tracking.PloS one · 2025Article
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6 authors.
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Abstract
Microbial life is at the heart of many diverse environments and regulates most natural processes, from the functioning of animal organs to the cycling of global carbon. Yet, the study of microbial ecology is often limited by challenges in visualizing microbial processes and replicating the environmental conditions under which they unfold. Microfluidics operates at the characteristic scale at which microorganisms live and perform their functions, thus allowing for the observation and quantification of behaviors such as growth, motility, and responses to external cues, often with greater detail than classical techniques. By enabling a high degree of control in space and time of environmental conditions such as nutrient gradients, pH levels, and fluid flow patterns, microfluidics further provides the opportunity to study microbial processes in conditions that mimic the natural settings harboring microbial life. In this review, we describe how recent applications of microfluidic systems to microbial ecology have enriched our understanding of microbial life and microbial communities. We highlight discoveries enabled by microfluidic approaches ranging from single-cell behaviors to the functioning of multi-cellular communities, and we indicate potential future opportunities to use microfluidics to further advance our understanding of microbial processes and their implications.
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