Dioscuri Centre for Physics and Chemistry of Bacteria
Group leader
Dr Bartłomiej Wacław
Phone: 22 343 21 70
Research topics
The Centre’s main objective is to better understand bacterial growth and evolution in the natural environment of pathogenic bacteria: the interior of an animal cell and animal secretions. The members of the Centre will use experimental in vitro models of infections, computer simulations and mathematical theory to create data driven, quantitative models of bacterial growth and evolution in these environments.
Members
- Dr Bartłomiej Wacław (Leader)
- Dr Katarzyna Bartołd (Administrative Coordinator)
- Joanna Materska (PhD student)
- Klaudia Staśkiewicz (PhD student)
- Patrycja Kuźma (Lab Manager)
- Dr Elin Lilja (Postdoctoral Researcher)
- Dr Pragyesh Dixit (Postdoctoral Researcher)
- Dr Ilyas Djafer-Cherif (Postdoctoral Researcher)
- Dr Karolina Drabik (Postdoctoral Researcher)
- Dr Jarosław A. Pankowski (Postdoctoral Researcher)
- Dr hab. Anna Ochab-Marcinek
- Dr Łukasz Zinkiewicz
- Dr Piotr Ciąćka
- Dr Marek Kochańczyk
Research
- Experimental models of bacterial infections
- New methods for accurate, real-time, in situ measurement of bacterial growth
- The structure and growth dynamics of intra-cellular colonies (in vivo biofilms)
- Population dynamics of bacteria in complex fluids and topologies
- Population dynamics of intracellular bacteria during antibiotic treatment
- Bacterial growth on micro-patterned and dynamic surfaces
Publications
Hallatschek, Oskar; Datta, Sujit S.; Drescher, Knut; Dunkel, Joern; Elgeti, Jens; Waclaw, Bartek; Wingreen, Ned S.
Proliferating active matter
NATURE REVIEWS PHYSICS 2023 5, 7, 407-419
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Nalin, Francesco; Tirelli, Maria Celeste; Garstecki, Piotr; Postek, Witold; Costantini, Marco
Tuna-step: tunable parallelized step emulsification for the generation of droplets with dynamic volume control to 3D print functionally graded porous materials
LAB ON A CHIP 2023 24, 1, 113-126
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Haydukivska, Khristine; Blavatska, Viktoria; Paturej, Jaroslaw
The size and shape of snowflake-shaped polymers in dilute solution: Analytical and numerical approaches
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS 2023 392, , -123430
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Haydukivska K., Blavatska V., Paturaj Ja.
Molecular conformations of dumbbell-shaped polymers in good solvent
PHYSICAL REVIEW E 2023 108, 034502
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Haydukivska, K.; Blavatska, V.
On the swelling properties of pom-pom polymers: impact of backbone length
CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS 2023 26, 2, -23301
Cooperation
- Department of Evolutionary Theory, MPI Plön, Germany
- The University of Edinburgh
- Harvard University
- The University of York
Financing
Dioscuri (2020-2025) (2) NAWA (2020-2024)