Lauren Heckelman

Lecturer in the Discipline of Biomedical Engineering

Stavros Thomopoulos

Robert E. Carroll and Jane Chace Carroll Professor; Professor of Biomechanics (in Orthopedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering); Director of Carroll Laboratories for Orthopedic Surgery; Vice Chair of Basic Research in Orthopedic Surgery

Lance C. Kam

Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine)

ABOUT THE STUDY

JOURNAL: Nature Chemical Biology

TITLE: "Engineered bacterial swarm patterns as spatial records of environmental inputs"

AUTHORS: Anjali Doshi (1), Marian Shaw (1), Ruxandra Tonea(1), Soonhee Moon (1) , Rosalia Minyety (1), Anish Doshi (2), Andrew Laine (1), Jia Guo (3,4) & Tal Danino (1,5,6)

  1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
  3. Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
  4. Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University
  5. Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University
  6. Data Science Institute, Columbia University

FUNDING: This work was supported by an NSF CAREER Award (1847356 to T.D.), Blavatnik Fund for Innovations in Health (T.D.), and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (A.D., Fellow ID 2018264757).

A.D., M.S., J.G., A.L. and T.D. are named as inventors on a provisional patent application that has been filed by Columbia University with the US Patent and Trademark Office related to all aspects of this work. The remaining authors declare no competing interests. 

Renata M. Wentzcovitch

Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics; Professor of Earth and Environmental Science

Qiao Lin

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Bjarne Stroustrup

Professor of Computer Science

Ben O'Shaughnessy

Professor of Chemical Engineering

Kam W. Leong

Samuel Y. Sheng Professor of Biomedical Engineering (in Systems Biology)

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