Bulletin of the American Physical Society
Joint Fall 2017 Meeting of the Texas Section of the APS, Texas Section of the AAPT, and Zone 13 of the Society of Physics Students
Volume 62, Number 16
Friday–Saturday, October 20–21, 2017; The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
Session Q1: Plenary III |
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Chair: Jason Slinker, University of Texas at Dallas Room: DGAC 1.102 |
Saturday, October 21, 2017 5:00PM - 5:45PM |
Q1.00001: Why bacteria care about things you learned in your classical mechanics class Invited Speaker: Prof. Vernita Gordon Although bacteria are single-celled organisms, they can form interacting, multi-cellular communities known as "biofilms." In biofilms, bacteria and other microbes are bound to each other, and often to a surface, by polymers and proteins. As a result, bacteria in developing and mature biofilms experience mechanical forces, and have mechanical properties, that are unlike those experienced or possessed by single bacteria outside of a biofilm. I will discuss two cases where physical mechanics impact the biological function of bacteria in ways that help promote biofilm development and robustness. [Preview Abstract] |
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