(l to r) Howard Berg, Pushkar Lele, and Basarab Hosu Contact with a surface is believed to trigger bacterial swarmer-cell differentiation, and the flagellar motor is thought to…
(L to R) Richard Branch, Junhua Yuan, Basarab Hosu and Howard Berg The bacterium Escherichia coli decides whether life is getting better or worse by swimming about and…
(L to R) Linda Turner, Rongjing Zhang, and Howard C. Berg When grown on a rich medium on agar, many bacteria elongate, produce more flagella, and swim in…
Howard Berg at the University of Osnabrück (L to R): Wolfgang Junge, Professor of Biophysics; Claus R. Rollinger, President of the University of Osnabrück; Howard Berg; Karlheinz Altendorf,…
Authors Howard C. Berg & Nicholas C. Darnton In many of the bacteria that swim by rotating helical flagella, the flagellum itself is not a simple, passive propeller.…
Real-time movie of E. coli cells swimming in 10 micron wide, 1.5 micron high, poly(dimethylsiloxane) microchannels with soft, agar floors. The majority of cells are swimming on the…
The Bacterial Movie Theater of Professor Howard Berg shows nothing but action films. Harking back to the early days of motion pictures, these movies are silent and shot…