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To increase our chances of observing microbial motility we investigate different forms of taxis for in lab cultures and environmental samples and characterize how motility behavior in the samples are […]

Our lab and collaborators have traveled throughout North America collecting and analyzing samples from extreme environments that in some ways can act as analogs to environments we might see on […]

Motility was one of the first accepted biosignatures. When Leeuwenhoek first observed bacteria and protozoa in the 17th century using single-lens microscopes, he knew they were alive because of their motion: “[N]o […]