Professorship for Theoretical Microbial Ecology

From left to right: replicate bacterial cultures growing in a PhD indicator dye; E. coli bacteria treated with mecillinam; individual-based model simulations of a growing bacterial biofilm; and equation describes the roughness of the biofilm. Image: Rosalind Allen

* Detailed description for image on top: Microscopy image of E. coli bacteria treated with the antibiotic mecillinam. Computer simulations of a growing bacterial biofilm, colour-coded by lineage length. Equation describing spreading of bacteria on the surface of a urinary catheter.