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Männik, J. (author), Driessen, R. (author), Galajda, P. (author), Keymer, J.E. (author), Dekker, C. (author)In many naturally occurring habitats, bacteria live in micrometer-size confined spaces. Although bacterial growth and motility in such constrictions is of great interest to fields as varied as soil microbiology, water purification, and biomedical research, quantitative studies of the effects of confinement on bacteria have been limited. Here, we...journal article 2009
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Hol, F.J.H. (author), Galajda, P. (author), Nagy, K. (author), Woolthuis, R.G. (author), Dekker, C. (author), Keymer, J.E. (author)Cooperative organisms are ubiquitous in nature, despite their vulnerability to exploitation by cheaters. Although numerous theoretical studies suggest that spatial structure is critical for cooperation to persist, the spatial ecology of microbial cooperation remains largely unexplored experimentally. By tracking the community dynamics of...journal article 2013
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Hol, F.J.H. (author), Galajda, P. (author), Woolthuis, R.G. (author), Dekker, C. (author), Keymer, J.E. (author)Background The spatial structure of a habitat can have a strong impact on community dynamics. Different experimental approaches exist to explore the effect of spatial structure on bacterial communities. To investigate the effect of ‘space’, a single implementation of spatial structure is often contrasted to bacterial community dynamics in well...journal article 2015