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SUMMARY:Bacteria: self-motile liquid crystals? - Julia Yeomans (University
  of Oxford)
DTSTART:20190514T123000Z
DTEND:20190514T131000Z
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DESCRIPTION:We discuss recent work showing that the concepts of liquid cry
 stal physics can give insight into the behaviour of colonies of bacteria. 
  Dense bacterial layers show local nematic order and the appearance of ass
 ociated topological defects can act as preferential sites for biofilm form
 ation. Moreover less dense swimming bacterial suspensions can be focused b
 y an underlying passive nematic\, a step towards exploiting their energy f
 or microfluidic transport. <br><br><i><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" hr
 ef="https://www.newton.ac.uk/women-in-materials-science">Women in Material
 s Science</a></i><br><br>
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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