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Emrah Simsek

@esimsek.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of (bio)Physics at University of Florida. Studying life and death of microbes. biophysics, qBio, systems biology.

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Our recent collaborative paper is now published in the latest issue of Cell Reports @cp-cellreports.bsky.social accompanied by a cover image highlighting how Bacillus gathers iron in the biofilm for promoting plant growth www.cell.com/issue/S2211-...

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Spatial proximity dictates bacterial competition and expansion in microbial communities @natcomms.nature.com by @esimsek.bsky.social et al from @lingchongyou.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Spatial proximity dictates bacterial competition and expansion in microbial communities - Nature Communications

Here, the authors show that immotile bacteria degrade antibiotics to alter their environment and facilitate nearby motile competitors to expand. As expansion proceeds, the immotile degrader is outcomp...

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Emrah Simsek @esimsek.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

1/8: In our new paper with @lingchongyou.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414..., we show that antibiotics don’t just kill bacteria—they can paralyze Pseudomonas aeruginosa at sublethal doses, halting its spatial expansion.

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Spatial proximity dictates bacterial competition and expansion in microbial communities - Nature Communications

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