Two new papers published in PNAS from the lab of Aravinthan Samuel shine fresh light on one of biology’s most iconic molecular machines: the bacterial flagellar motor. Although…
Last week, PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) (PDF) posted a paper co-authored by the late MCB professor Howard Berg and myself, a research associate in…
The Intersections Science Fellows Symposium (ISFS) has chosen research associate Navish Wadhwa of the Berg and Garner Labs as a 2021 ISFS associate. This year’s ISFS fellows and…
Bacteria are a nanotechnological marvel. Consider the bacterium Escherichia coli as an example. Barely a millionth the size of a typical human (E. coli is a rod-shaped cell…
Most bacteria swim through fluids by rotating helical flagella, driven at their base by a macromolecular rotary motor. The motor drives the flagellum against the viscous resistance of…
Imagine a box densely packed with balls. The spacing between the balls is filled with a fluid of viscosity similar to honey. The box has many copies of…
I have been intrigued by bacterial flagellar motors since 1973, when Bob Anderson and I argued that bacterial flagellar filaments are rigid helices driven at their base, rather…
(l to r) Howard Berg, Abhishek Shrivastava, and Pushkar Lele Bacterial gliding is defined as steady movement over a surface, of bacteria that have neither flagella nor pili. …
Howard Berg, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, is a recipient of the 2014 Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics…
On Friday, March 14, 2014 at 3:00 pm, the Program in Biophysics will host a Visiting Researcher Seminar in honor of the 80th birthday of MCB faculty member…
