On 28th November OxTalks will move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events' (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
There will be an OxTalks freeze beginning on Friday 14th November. This means you will need to publish any of your known events to OxTalks by then as there will be no facility to publish or edit events in that fortnight. During the freeze, all events will be migrated to the new Oxford Events site. It will still be possible to view events on OxTalks during this time.
If you have any questions, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
For over 100 years, bacteria have been studied in simplified laboratory settings. While reductionist experimental systems provided great mechanistic insight, they lack key aspects of natural systems such as fluid flow. Thus, we now have an opportunity to solve outstanding problems in microbiology by implementing experimental systems that more precisely model natural conditions. My research group combines traditional molecular biology approaches with microfluidic technology to examine how host-relevant shear flow influences the human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Specifically, we explore how flow impacts how bacteria respond to stress and stick to surfaces.
