Prof. Dr. Knut Drescher

Djermoun, Sarah, Rode, Daniel K. H., Jiménez-Siebert, Eva, Netter, Niklas, Lesterlin, Christian, Drescher, Knut, & Bigot, Sarah. (2025). Biofilm architecture determines the dissemination of conjugative plasmids [Journal-article]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(17). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2417452122

Gompper, G., Stone, H. A., Kurzthaler, C., Saintillan, D., Peruani, F., Fedosov, D. A., Auth, T., Cottin-Bizonne, C., Ybert, C., Clément, E., Darnige, T., Lindner, A., Goldstein, R. E., Liebchen, B., Binysh, J., Souslov, A., Isa, L., di Leonardo, R., Frangipane, G., et al. (2025). The 2025 motile active matter roadmap. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, 37(14). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/adac98

Lubrano, P., Smollich, F., Schramm, T., Lorenz, E., Alvarado, A., Eigenmann, S. C., Stadelmann, A., Thavapalan, S., Waffenschmidt, N., Glatter, T., Hoffmann, N., Müller, J., Peter, S., Drescher, K., & Link, H. (2025). Metabolic mutations reduce antibiotic susceptibility of E. coli by pathway-specific bottlenecks. Molecular Systems Biology , 21(3), 274–293. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44320-024-00084-z

Espinoza Miranda, Suyen Solange, Abbaszade, Gorkhmaz, Hess, Wolfgang R., Drescher, Knut, Saliba, Antoine-Emmanuel, Zaburdaev, Vasily, Chai, Liraz, Dreisewerd, Klaus, Grünberger, Alexander, Westendorf, Christian, Müller, Susann, & Mascher, Thorsten. (2025). Resolving spatiotemporal dynamics in bacterial multicellular populations: approaches and challenges [Journal-article]. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 89(1). https://doi.org/10.1128/mmbr.00138-24

Vaidya, S., Saha, D., Rode, D. K. H., Torrens, G., Hansen, M. F., Singh, P. K., Jelli, E., Nosho, K., Jeckel, H., Göttig, S., Cava, F., & Drescher, K. (2025). Bacteria use exogenous peptidoglycan as a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation. Nature Microbiology, 10(1), 144–157. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-024-01886-5

Ohmura, Takuya, Skinner, Dominic J., Neuhaus, Konstantin, Choi, Gary P. T., Dunkel, Jörn., & Drescher, Knut. (2024). In vivo Microrheology Reveals Local Elastic and Plastic Responses Inside Three‐dimensional Bacterial Biofilms [Journal-article]. Advanced Materials. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202314059

Sollier, Julie, Basler, Marek, Broz, Petr, Dittrich, Petra S., Drescher, Knut, Egli, Adrian, Harms, Alexander, Hierlemann, Andreas, Hiller, Sebastian, King, Carolyn G., McKinney, John D., Moran-Gilad, Jacob, Neher, Richard A., Page, Malcolm G. P., Panke, Sven, Persat, Alexandre, Picotti, Paola, Rentsch, Katharina M., Rivera-Fuentes, Pablo, et al. (2024). Revitalizing antibiotic discovery and development through in vitro modelling of in-patient conditions. Nature Microbiology, 9(1), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-023-01566-w

Jeckel, H., Nosho, K., Neuhaus, K., Hastewell, A. D., Skinner, D. J., Saha, D., Netter, N., Paczia, N., Dunkel, J., & Drescher, K. (2023). Simultaneous spatiotemporal transcriptomics and microscopy of Bacillus subtilis swarm development reveal cooperation across generations. Nature Microbiology, 8(12), 2378–2391. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-023-01518-4

Moscovitz, Sofia Zoe, Amador, Cristina I., Maccario, Lorrie, Herschend, Jakob, Kramer, Isabel-Sophie, Jeckel, Hannah, Cooper, Vaughn S., Drescher, Knut, Neu, Thomas R., Burmølle, Mette, & Røder, Henriette L. (2023). Evolution of genotypic and phenotypic diversity in multispecies biofilms [Posted-content]. In bioRxiv. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.08.561388

Lubrano, Paul, Schramm, Thorben, Lorenz, Elisabeth, Alvarado, Alejandra, Eigenmann, Seraina Carmen, Stadelmann, Amelie, Thavapalan, Sevvalli, Waffenschmidt, Nils, Glatter, Timo, Peter, Silke, Drescher, Knut, & Link, Hannes. (2023). Purine nucleotide limitation undermines antibiotic action in clinical Escherichia coli [Posted-content]. In bioRxiv. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.22.546106

Hallatschek, Oskar, Datta, Sujit S., Drescher, Knut, Dunkel, Jörn, Elgeti, Jens, Waclaw, Bartek, & Wingreen, Ned S. (2023). Proliferating active matter. Nature Reviews Physics, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-023-00593-0

Jelli, Eric, Ohmura, Takuya, Netter, Niklas, Abt, Martin, Jiménez-Siebert, Eva, Neuhaus, Konstantin, Rode, Daniel K. H., Nadell, Carey D., & Drescher, Knut. (2023). Single-cell segmentation in bacterial biofilms with an optimized deep learning method enables tracking of cell lineages and measurements of growth rates. Molecular Microbiology, 119(6), 659–676. https://doi.org/10.1111/mmi.15064

Manner, Christina, Dias Teixeira, Raphael, Saha, Dibya, Kaczmarczyk, Andreas, Zemp, Raphaela, Wyss, Fabian, Jaeger, Tina, Laventie, Benoit-Joseph, Boyer, Sebastien, Malone, Jacob G., Qvortrup, Katrine, Andersen, Jens Bo, Givskov, Michael, Tolker-Nielsen, Tim, Hiller, Sebastian, Drescher, Knut, & Jenal, Urs. (2023). A genetic switch controls Pseudomonas aeruginosa surface colonization. Nature Microbiology, 8(8), 1520–1533. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-023-01403-0

Skinner, Dominic J., Jeckel, Hannah, Martin, Adam C., Drescher, Knut, & Dunkel, Jörn. (2023). Topological packing statistics of living and nonliving matter. Science Advances, 9(36), eadg1261. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg1261

Vidakovic, Lucia, Mikhaleva, Sofya, Jeckel, Hannah, Nisnevich, Valerya, Strenger, Kerstin, Neuhaus, Konstantin, Raveendran, Keerthana, Ben-Moshe, Noa Bossel, Aznaourova, Marina, Nosho, Kazuki, Drescher, Antje, Schmeck, Bernd, Schulte, Leon N., Persat, Alexandre, Avraham, Roi, & Drescher, Knut. (2023). Biofilm formation on human immune cells is a multicellular predation strategy of Vibrio cholerae. Cell, 186(12), 2690–2704. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.05.008

Jeckel, Hannah, Díaz-Pascual, Francisco, Skinner, Dominic J., Song, Boya, Jiménez-Siebert, Eva, Strenger, Kerstin, Jelli, Eric, Vaidya, Sanika, Dunkel, Jörn, & Drescher, Knut. (2022). Shared biophysical mechanisms determine early biofilm architecture development across different bacterial species. PLoS Biology, 20(10), e3001846. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001846

Ren, Zhi, Jeckel, Hannah, Simon-Soro, Aurea, Xiang, Zhenting, Liu, Yuan, Cavalcanti, Indira M., Xiao, Jin, Tin, Nyi-Nyi, Hara, Anderson, Drescher, Knut, & Koo, Hyun. (2022). Interkingdom assemblages in human saliva display group-level surface mobility and disease-promoting emergent functions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(41), e2209699119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209699119

Skinner, D.J., Jeckel, H., Martin, A.C., Drescher, K., & Dunkel, J. (2022). Topological packing statistics distinguish living and non-living matter. In arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2209.00703

Teschler, Jennifer K., Jiménez-Siebert, Eva, Jeckel, Hannah, Singh, Praveen K., Park, Jin Hwan, Pukatzki, Stefan, Nadell, Carey D., Drescher, Knut, & Yildiz, Fitnat H. (2022). VxrB Influences Antagonism within Biofilms by Controlling Competition through Extracellular Matrix Production and Type 6 Secretion. mBio, 13(4), e0188522. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.01885-22

Teschler, Jennifer K., Nadell, Carey D., Drescher, Knut, & Yildiz, Fitnat H. (2022). Mechanisms underlying Vibrio cholerae biofilm formation and dispersion. Annual Reviews of Microbiology, 76, 503–532. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-micro-111021-053553

Goes, A., Vidakovic, L., Drescher, K., & Fuhrmann, G. (2021). Interaction of myxobacteria-derived outer membrane vesicles with biofilms: Antiadhesive and antibacterial effects. Nanoscale, 13(34), 14287–14296. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1nr02583j

Jeckel, Hannah, Díaz-Pascual, Francisco, Skinner, Dominic J., Song, Boya, Jiménez-Siebert, Eva, Jelli, Eric, Vaidya, Sanika, Dunkel, Jörn, & Drescher, Knut. (2021). Multispecies phase diagram of biofilm architectures reveals biophysical principles of biofilm development [Posted-content]. In bioRxiv. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.06.455416

Hartmann, R., Jeckel, H., Jelli, E., Singh, P. K., Vaidya, S., Bayer, M., Rode, D. K. H., Vidakovic, L., Díaz-Pascual, F., Fong, J. C. N., Dragoš, A., Lamprecht, O., Thöming, J. G., Netter, N., Häussler, S., Nadell, C. D., Sourjik, V., Kovács, Á. T., Yildiz, F. H., & Drescher, K. (2021). Publisher Correction: Quantitative image analysis of microbial communities with BiofilmQ (Nature Microbiology, (2021), 6, 2, (151-156), 10.1038/s41564-020-00817-4). Nature Microbiology, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-021-00863-6

Bond, Matthew C., Vidakovic, Lucia, Singh, Praveen K., Drescher, Knut, & Nadell, Carey D. (2021). Matrix-trapped viruses can prevent invasion of bacterial biofilms by colonizing cells. eLife, 10, e65355. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.65355

Di­az-Pascual, Francisco, Lempp, Martin, Nosho, Kazuki, Jeckel, Hannah, Jo, Jeanyoung K., Neuhaus, Konstantin, Hartmann, Raimo, Jelli, Eric, Hansen, Mads Frederik, Price-Whelan, Alexa, Dietrich, Lars E. P., Link, Hannes, & Drescher, Knut. (2021). Spatial alanine metabolism determines local growth dynamics of Escherichia coli colonies. eLife, 10, e70794. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.70794

Hartmann, Raimo, Jeckel, Hannah, Jelli, Eric, Singh, Praveen K., Vaidya, Sanika, Bayer, Miriam, Rode, Daniel K. H., Vidakovic, Lucia, Díaz-Pascual, Francisco, Fong, Jiunn C. N., Dragoš, Anna, Lamprecht, Olga, Thöming, Janne G., Netter, Niklas, Häussler, Susanne, Nadell, Carey D., Sourjik, Victor, Kovács, Ákos T., Yildiz, Fitnat H., & Drescher, Knut. (2021). Quantitative image analysis of microbial communities with BiofilmQ. Nature Microbiology, 6(2), 151–156. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-020-00817-4

Jeckel, Hannah, & Drescher, Knut. (2021). Advances and opportunities in image analysis of bacterial cells and communities. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 45(4), fuaa062. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuaa062

Maestre-Reyna, Manuel, Huang, Wei-Cheng, Wu, Wen-Jin, Singh, Praveen K., Hartmann, Raimo, Wang, Po-Hsun, Lee, Cheng-Chung, Hikima, Takaaki, Yamamoto, Masaki, Bessho, Yoshitaka, Drescher, Knut, Tsai, Ming-Daw, & Wang, Andrew H.-J. (2021). Vibrio cholerae biofilm scaffolding protein RbmA shows an intrinsic, phosphate-dependent autoproteolysis activity. IUBMB Life, 73(2), 418–431. https://doi.org/10.1002/iub.2439

Singh, Praveen K., Rode, Daniel K. H., Buffard, Pauline, Nosho, Kazuki, Bayer, Miriam, Jeckel, Hannah, Jelli, Eric, Neuhaus, Konstantin, Jiménez-Siebert, Eva, Peschek, Nikolai, Glatter, Timo, Papenfort, Kai, & Drescher, Knut. (2021). Vibrio cholerae biofilm dispersal regulator causes cell release from matrix through type IV pilus retraction. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.02.442311

Skinner, Dominic J., Song, Boya, Jeckel, Hannah, Jelli, Eric, Drescher, Knut, & Dunkel, Jörn. (2021). Topological Metric Detects Hidden Order in Disordered Media. Physical Review Letters, 126(4), 48101. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.126.048101

Wimmi, Stephan, Balinovic, Alexander, Jeckel, Hannah, Selinger, Lisa, Lampaki, Dimitrios, Eisemann, Emma, Meuskens, Ina, Linke, Dirk, Drescher, Knut, Endesfelder, Ulrike, & Diepold, Andreas. (2021). Dynamic relocalization of cytosolic type III secretion system components prevents premature protein secretion at low external pH. Nature Communications, 12(1), 1625. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21863-4

Wong, Gerard C. L., Antani, Jyot D., Lele, Pushkar P., Chen, Jing, Nan, Beiyan, Kühn, Marco J., Persat, Alexandre, Bru, Jean-Louis, Molin Høyland-Kroghsbo, Nina, Siryaporn, Albert, Conrad, Jacinta C., Carrara, Francesco, Yawata, Yutaka, Stocker, Roman, Brun, Yves V., Whitfield, Gregory B., Lee, Calvin K., de Anda, Jaime, Schmidt, William C., et al. (2021). Roadmap on emerging concepts in the physical biology of bacterial biofilms: from surface sensing to community formation. Physical biology, 18(5), 51501. https://doi.org/10.1088/1478-3975/abdc0e

Yordanov, Stoyan, Neuhaus, Konstantin, Hartmann, Raimo, Díaz-Pascual , Francisco, Vidakovic, Lucia, Singh, Praveen K., & Drescher, Knut. (2021). Single-objective high-resolution confocal light sheet fluorescence microscopy for standard biological sample geometries. Biomedical Optics Express, 12(6), 3372–3391. https://doi.org/10.1364/boe.420788

Bond, M. C., Vidakovic, L., Singh, P. K., Drescher, K., & Nadell, C. D. (2020). Matrix-trapped viruses can protect bacterial biofilms from invasion by colonizing cells [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.28.358952

Brückner, Stefan, Schubert, Rajib, Kraushaar, Timo, Hartmann, Raimo, Hoffmann, Daniel, Jelli, Eric, Drescher, Knut, Müller, Daniel J., Oliver Essen, Lars, & Mösch, Hans-Ulrich. (2020). Kin discrimination in social yeast is mediated by cell surface receptors of the Flo11 adhesin family. eLife, 9, e55587. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.55587

Gallego-Hernandez, A. L., DePas, W. H., Park, J. H., Teschler, J. K., Hartmann, R., Jeckel, H., Drescher, K., Beyhan, S., Newman, D. K., & Yildiz, F. H. (2020). Upregulation of virulence genes promotes Vibrio cholerae biofilm hyperinfectivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(20), 11010–11017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1916571117

Hartmann, Raimo, van Teeseling, Muriel C. F., Thanbichler, Martin, & Drescher, Knut. (2020). BacStalk: A comprehensive and interactive image analysis software tool for bacterial cell biology. Molecular Microbiology, 114(1), 140–150. https://doi.org/10.1111/mmi.14501

Ishikawa, Takuji, Pedley, T. J., Drescher, Knut, & Goldstein, Raymond E. (2020). Stability of dancing Volvox. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 903, A11. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2020.613

Otto, Simon B., Martin, Marivic, Schäfer, Daniel, Hartmann, Raimo, Drescher, Knut, Brix, Susanne, Dragoš, Anna, & Kovács, Ákos T. (2020). Privatization of Biofilm Matrix in Structurally Heterogeneous Biofilms. mSystems, 5(4), e00425–20. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00425-20

Peschek, Nikolai, Herzog, Roman, Singh, Praveen K., Sprenger, Marcel, Meyer, Fabian, Fröhlich, Kathrin S., Schröger, Luise, Bramkamp, Marc, Drescher, Knut, & Papenfort, Kai. (2020). RNA-mediated control of cell shape modulates antibiotic resistance in Vibrio cholerae. Nature Communications, 11(1), 6067. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19890-8

Rode, Daniel K. H., Singh, Praveen K., & Drescher, Knut. (2020). Multicellular and unicellular responses of microbial biofilms to stress. Biological Chemistry, 401(12), 1365–1374. https://doi.org/10.1515/hsz-2020-0213

Schwechheimer, Carmen, Hebert, Kassidy, Tripathi, Sarvind, Singh, Praveen K., Floyd, Kyle A., Brown, Elise R., Porcella, Monique E., Osorio, Jacqueline, Kiblen, Joseph T. M., Pagliai, Fernando A., Drescher, Knut, Rubin, Seth M., & Yildiz, Fitnat H. (2020). A tyrosine phosphoregulatory system controls exopolysaccharide biosynthesis and biofilm formation in Vibrio cholerae. PLoS Pathogens, 16(8), e1008745. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008745

Simmons, Emilia L., Bond, Matthew C., Koskella, Britt, Drescher, Knut, Bucci, Vanni, & Nadell, Carey D. (2020). Biofilm Structure Promotes Coexistence of Phage-Resistant and Phage-Susceptible Bacteria. mSystems, 5(3), e00877–19. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00877-19

Wimmi, S., Balinovic, A., Jeckel, H., Selinger, L., Lampaki, D., Eisemann, E., Meuskens, I., Linke, D., Drescher, K., Endesfelder, U., & Diepold, A. (2019, December 9). Dynamic relocalization of the cytosolic type III secretion system components prevents premature protein secretion at low external pH [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/869214

Otto, S. B., Martin, M., Schäfer, D., Hartmann, R., Drescher, K., Brix, S., Dragoš, A., & Kovács, Á. T. (2019, August 21). Privatization of biofilm matrix in structurally heterogeneous biofilms [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/742593

Hartmann, R., Jeckel, H., Jelli, E., Singh, P. K., Vaidya, S., Bayer, M., Vidakovic, L., Díaz-Pascual, F., Fong, J. C. N., Dragoš, A., Besharova, O., Nadell, C. D., Sourjik, V., Kovács, Á. T., Yildiz, F. H., & Drescher, K. (2019). BiofilmQ, a software tool for quantitative image analysis of microbial biofilm communities [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/735423

Simmons, M., Bond, M. C., Drescher, K., Bucci, V., & Nadell, C. D. (2019, February 17). Evolutionary dynamics of phage resistance in bacterial biofilms [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/552265

Colin, Remy, Drescher, Knut, & Sourjik, Victor. (2019). Chemotactic behaviour of Escherichia coli at high cell density. Nature Communications, 10(1), 5329. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13179-1

Díaz-Pascual, Francisco, Hartmann, Raimo, Lempp, Martin, Vidakovic, Lucia, Song, Boya, Jeckel, Hannah, Thormann, Kai M., Yildiz, Fitnat H., Dunkel, Jörn, Link, Hannes, Nadell, Carey D., & Drescher, Knut. (2019). Breakdown of Vibrio cholerae biofilm architecture induced by antibiotics disrupts community barrier function. Nature Microbiology, 4(12), 2136–2145. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0579-2

Drescher, Knut. (2019). Bakterielle Multizellularität in Biofilmen. BIOspektrum, 25(3), 258–260. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12268-019-1038-6

Hartmann, Raimo, Singh, Praveen K., Pearce, Philip, Mok, Rachel, Song, Boya, Díaz-Pascual, Francisco, Dunkel, Jörn, & Drescher, Knut. (2019). Emergence of three-dimensional order and structure in growing biofilms. Nature Physics, 15(3), 251–256. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0356-9

Jeckel, Hannah, Jelli, Eric, Hartmann, Raimo, Singh, Praveen K., Mok, Rachel, Totz, Jan Frederik, Vidakovic, Lucia, Eckhardt, Bruno, Dunkel, Jörn, & Drescher, Knut. (2019). Learning the space-time phase diagram of bacterial swarm expansion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(5), 1489–1494. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1811722116

Jeckel, Hannah, Matthey, Noémie, & Drescher, Knut. (2019). Common concepts for bacterial collectives. eLife, 8, e47019. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.47019

Nisbett, Lisa-Marie, Binnenkade, Lucas, Bacon, Bezalel, Hossain, Sajjad, Kotloski, Nicholas J., Brutinel, Evan D., Hartmann, Raimo, Drescher, Knut, Arora, Dhruv P., Muralidharan, Sandhya, Thormann, Kai M., Gralnick, Jeffrey A., & Boon, Elizabeth M. (2019). NosP Signaling Modulates the NO/H-NOX-Mediated Multicomponent c-Di-GMP Network and Biofilm Formation in Shewanella oneidensis. Biochemistry, 58(48), 4827–4841. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00706

Pearce, Philip, Song, Boya, Skinner, Dominic J., Mok, Rachel, Hartmann, Raimo, Singh, Praveen K., Jeckel, Hannah, Oishi, Jeffrey S., Drescher, Knut, & Dunkel, Jörn. (2019). Flow-Induced Symmetry Breaking in Growing Bacterial Biofilms. Physical Review Letters, 123(25), 258101. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.123.258101

Colin, R., Drescher, K., & Sourjik, V. (2018, August 28). Chemotactic behaviour of<i>Escherichia coli</i>at high cell density [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/402289

Hartmann, R., van Teeseling, M. C. F., Thanbichler, M., & Drescher, K. (2018, July 3). BacStalk: a comprehensive and interactive image analysis software tool for bacterial cell biology [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/360230

Beuter, Dominik, Gomes-Filho, José Vicente, Randau, Lennart, Díaz-Pascual, Francisco, Drescher, Knut, & Link, Hannes. (2018). Selective Enrichment of Slow-Growing Bacteria in a Metabolism-Wide CRISPRi Library with a TIMER Protein. ACS Synthetic Biology, 7(12), 2775–2782. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.8b00379

Dragoš, Anna, Kiesewalter, Heiko, Martin, Marivic, Hsu, Chih-Yu, Hartmann, Raimo, Wechsler, Tobias, Eriksen, Carsten, Brix, Susanne, Drescher, Knut, Stanley-Wall, Nicola, Kümmerli, Rolf, & Kovács, Ákos T. (2018). Division of Labor during Biofilm Matrix Production. Current Biology, 28(12), 1903–1913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.046

Martínez-García, Ricardo, Nadell, Carey D., Hartmann, Raimo, Drescher, Knut, & Bonachela, Juan A. (2018). Cell adhesion and fluid flow jointly initiate genotype spatial distribution in biofilms. PLoS Computational Biology, 14(4), e1006094. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006094

Simmons, Matthew, Drescher, Knut, Nadell, Carey D., & Bucci, Vanni. (2018). Phage mobility is a core determinant of phage-bacteria coexistence in biofilms. ISME Journal, 12(2), 531–543. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2017.190

Vidakovic, Lucia, Singh, Praveen K., Hartmann, Raimo, Nadell, Carey D., & Drescher, Knut. (2018). Dynamic biofilm architecture confers individual and collective mechanisms of viral protection. Nature Microbiology, 3(1), 26–31. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-017-0050-1

Dragoš, A., Kiesewalter, H., Martin, M., Hsu, C.-Y., Hartmann, R., Wechsler, T., Eriksen, C., Brix, S., Drescher, K., Stanley-Wall, N., Kümmerli, R., & Kovács, Á. T. (2017, December 21). Division of labor during biofilm matrix production [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/237230

Fong, Jiunn C. N., Rogers, Andrew, Michael, Alicia K., Parsley, Nicole C., Cornell, William-Cole, Lin, Yu-Cheng, Singh, Praveen K., Hartmann, Raimo, Drescher, Knut, Vinogradov, Evgeny, Dietrich, Lars E. P., Partch, Carrie L., & Yildiz, Fitnat H. (2017). Structural dynamics of RbmA governs plasticity of Vibrio cholerae biofilms. eLife, 6, e26163. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.26163

Nadell, Carey D., Ricaurte, Deirdre, Yan, Jing, Drescher, Knut, & Bassler, Bonnie L. (2017). Flow environment and matrix structure interact to determine spatial competition in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms. eLife, 6, e21855. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.21855

Singh, Praveen K., Bartalomej, Sabina, Hartmann, Raimo, Jeckel, Hannah, Vidakovic, Lucia, Nadell, Carey D., & Drescher, Knut. (2017). Vibrio cholerae Combines Individual and Collective Sensing to Trigger Biofilm Dispersal. Current Biology, 27(21), 3359–3366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.041

Besharova, Olga, Suchanek, Verena M., Hartmann, Raimo, Drescher, Knut, & Sourjik, Victor. (2016). Diversification of Gene Expression during Formation of Static Submerged Biofilms by Escherichia coli. Frontiers in Microbiology, 7, 1568. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01568

Drescher, Knut, Dunkel, Jörn, Nadell, Carey D., van Teeffelen, Sven, Grnja, Ivan, Wingreen, Ned S., Stone, Howard A., & Bassler, Bonnie L. (2016). Architectural transitions in Vibrio cholerae biofilms at single-cell resolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(14), E2066–72. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1601702113

Nadell, Carey D., Drescher, Knut, & Foster, Kevin R. (2016). Spatial structure, cooperation and competition in biofilms. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 14(9), 589–600. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro.2016.84

Nadell, Carey D., Hartmann, Raimo, & Drescher, Knut. (2016). An Emerging Grip on the Growth of Grounded Bacteria. ACS Nano, 10(10), 9109–9110. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.6b06461

Nadell, Carey D., Drescher, Knut, Wingreen, Ned S., & Bassler, Bonnie L. (2015). Extracellular matrix structure governs invasion resistance in bacterial biofilms. ISME Journal, 9(8), 9–1700. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2014.246

Persat, Alexandre, Nadell, Carey D., Kim, Minyoung Kevin, Ingremeau, Francois, Siryaporn, Albert, Drescher, Knut, Wingreen, Ned S., Bassler, Bonnie L., Gitai, Zemer, & Stone, Howard A. (2015). The mechanical world of bacteria. Cell, 161(5), 988–997. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.05.005

Drescher, Knut, Nadell, Carey D., Stone, Howard A., Wingreen, Ned S., & Bassler, Bonnie L. (2014). Solutions to the public goods dilemma in bacterial biofilms. Current Biology, 24(1), 50–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.10.030

Kim, Minyoung Kevin, Drescher, Knut, Pak, On Shun, Bassler, Bonnie L., & Stone, Howard A. (2014). Filaments in curved streamlines: Rapid formation of; Staphylococcus aureus; biofilm streamers. New Journal of Physics, 16(6), 65024. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/16/6/065024

Drescher, Knut, Shen, Yi, Bassler, Bonnie L., & Stone, Howard A. (2013). Biofilm streamers cause catastrophic disruption of flow with consequences for environmental and medical systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(11), 50–4345. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1300321110

Dunkel, Jörn, Heidenreich, Sebastian, Drescher, Knut, Wensink, Henricus H., Bär, Markus, & Goldstein, Raymond E. (2013). Fluid dynamics of bacterial turbulence. Physical Review Letters, 110(22), 228102. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.110.228102

Nadell, Carey D., Bucci, Vanni, Drescher, Knut, Levin, Simon A., Bassler, Bonnie L., & Xavier, João B. (2013). Cutting through the complexity of cell collectives. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280(1755), 20122770. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.2770

O’Loughlin, Colleen T., Miller, Laura C., Siryaporn, Albert, Drescher, Knut, Semmelhack, Martin F., & Bassler, Bonnie L. (2013). A quorum-sensing inhibitor blocks Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence and biofilm formation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(44), 17981–17986. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1316981110

Sareh, Sina, Rossiter, Jonathan, Conn, Andrew, Drescher, Knut, & Goldstein, Raymond E. (2013). Swimming like algae: biomimetic soft artificial cilia. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 10(78), 20120666. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2012.0666

Wensink, Henricus H., Dunkel, Jörn, Heidenreich, Sebastian, Drescher, Knut, Goldstein, Raymond E., Löwen, Hartmut, & Yeomans, Julia M. (2012). Meso-scale turbulence in living fluids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(36), 13–14308. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202032109

Drescher, Knut, Dunkel, Jörn, Cisneros, Luis H., Ganguly, Sujoy, & Goldstein, Raymond E. (2011). Fluid dynamics and noise in bacterial cell-cell and cell-surface scattering. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(27), 5–10940. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1019079108

Solari, Cristian A., Drescher, Knut, Ganguly, Sujoy, Kessler, John O., Michod, Richard E., & Goldstein, Raymond E. (2011). Flagellar phenotypic plasticity in volvocalean algae correlates with Péclet number. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 8(63), 17–1409. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2011.0023

Solari, Cristian A., Drescher, Knut, & Goldstein, Raymond E. (2011). The flagellar photoresponse in Volvox species. Journal of Phycology, 47(3), 580–583. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1529-8817.2011.00983.x

Drescher, Knut, Goldstein, Raymond E., Michel, Nicolas, Polin, Marco, & Tuval, Idan. (2010). Direct measurement of the flow field around swimming microorganisms. Physical Review Letters, 105(16), 168101. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.105.168101

Drescher, Knut, Goldstein, Raymond E., & Tuval, Idan. (2010). Fidelity of adaptive phototaxis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(25), 11171–11176. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1000901107

Bulte, Daniel P., Drescher, Knut, & Jezzard, Peter. (2009). Comparison of hypercapnia-based calibration techniques for measurement of cerebral oxygen metabolism with MRI. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 61(2), 8–391. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.21862

Drescher, Knut, Leptos, Kyriacos C., & Goldstein, Raymond E. (2009). How to track protists in three dimensions. Review of Scientific Instruments, 80(1), 14301. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3053242

Drescher, Knut, Leptos, Kyriacos C., Tuval, Idan, Ishikawa, Takuji, Pedley, Timothy J., & Goldstein, Raymond E. (2009). Dancing volvox: hydrodynamic bound states of swimming algae. Physical Review Letters, 102(16), 168101. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.102.168101

Polin, Marco, Tuval, Idan, Drescher, Knut, Gollub, J. P., & Goldstein, Raymond E. (2009). Chlamydomonas swims with two “gears” in a eukaryotic version of run-and-tumble locomotion. Science, 325(5939), 90–487. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1172667