Emrah Simsek (@esimsek.bsky.social)

1/8: In our new paper with @lingchongyou.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414..., we show that antibiotics don’t just kill bacteria—they can paralyze Pseudomonas aeruginosa at sublethal doses, halting its spatial expansion.

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Spatial proximity dictates bacterial competition and expansion in microbial communities - Nature Communications Here, the authors show that immotile bacteria degrade antibiotics to alter their environment and facilitate nearby motile competitors to expand. As expansion proceeds, the immotile degrader is outcomp... https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65892-9