Dioscuri Centre for Physics and Chemistry of Bacteria

Research group no. 15

Dioscuri Centre for Physics and Chemistry of Bacteria

Group leader

Dr Bartłomiej Wacław

bwaclaw@ichf.edu.pl

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
See external website

Research

  1. Experimental models of bacterial infections
  2. New methods for accurate, real-time, in situ measurement of bacterial growth
  3. The structure and growth dynamics of intra-cellular colonies (in vivo biofilms)
  4. Population dynamics of bacteria in complex fluids and topologies
  5. Population dynamics of intracellular bacteria during antibiotic treatment
  6. 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)

See also