Getting to where you want to be: bacterial swimming and its control

Bacteria swim by rotating semi-rigid helical flagellar filaments, using an ion driven rotary motor embedded in the membrane. Bacteria are too small to sense a spatial gradient and therefore sense changes in time, and use the signals to bias their direction changing pattern to bias overall swimming towards a favourable environment. I will discuss how interdisciplinary research has helped us understand both the mechanism of motor function and its control by chemosensory signals.

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