List of works by Roman Stocker

A Compact, Low-Cost GPS Drifter for Use in the Oceanic Nearshore Zone, Lakes, and Estuaries

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A Foraging Mandala for Aquatic Microorganisms

scientific article published on 16 November 2018

A bacterial pathogen uses dimethylsulfoniopropionate as a cue to target heat-stressed corals

scientific article

A coral-on-a-chip microfluidic platform enabling live-imaging microscopy of reef-building corals

scientific article

A distinct growth physiology enhances bacterial growth under rapid nutrient fluctuations

scientific article published on 16 June 2021

A laboratory model of marine snow: Preparation and characterization of porous fiber particles

scholarly article by Anna L. Dörgens et al published 4 September 2015 in Limnology and Oceanography: Methods

A microfluidic chemotaxis assay to study microbial behavior in diffusing nutrient patches

scientific article published in 2008

A microfluidics-based in situ chemotaxis assay to study the behaviour of aquatic microbial communities.

scientific article

A particularly useful system to study the ecology of microbes

scientific article published on 19 October 2016

An automated Raman-based platform for the sorting of live cells by functional properties

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

An experimental investigation of the angular dependence of diffusion-driven flow

article published in 2004

Bacteria can exploit a flagellar buckling instability to change direction

article by Kwangmin Son et al published 7 July 2013 in Nature Physics

Bacterial chemotaxis in a microfluidic T-maze reveals strong phenotypic heterogeneity in chemotactic sensitivity

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

Bacterial chemotaxis in linear and nonlinear steady microfluidic gradients

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Bacterial chemotaxis towards the extracellular products of the toxic phytoplankton Heterosigma akashiwo

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Bacterial rheotaxis

scientific article published on 12 March 2012

Bacterial transport suppressed by fluid shear

Baroclinic geostrophic adjustment in a rotating circular basin

article published in 2004

Biofilm disruption by an air bubble reveals heterogeneous age-dependent detachment patterns dictated by initial extracellular matrix distribution.

scientific article published on 3 March 2017

Capillary interception of floating particles by surface-piercing vegetation.

scientific article published on 15 October 2013

Cell patterning with mucin biopolymers

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Chemoattraction to dimethylsulfoniopropionate throughout the marine microbial food web.

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Chemotactic response of marine bacteria to the extracellular products of Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus

article by JR Seymour et al published 31 March 2010 in Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Chemotactic response of marine micro-organisms to micro-scale nutrient layers

scientific article published on 28 May 2007

Chemotaxis by natural populations of coral reef bacteria

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Chemotaxis may assist marine heterotrophic bacterial diazotrophs to find microzones suitable for N2 fixation in the pelagic ocean

scientific article published in 2022

Chemotaxis toward phytoplankton drives organic matter partitioning among marine bacteria.

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Chemotaxis under flow disorder shapes microbial dispersion in porous media

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Competition-dispersal tradeoff ecologically differentiates recently speciated marine bacterioplankton populations

scientific article

Controlled motility in the cyanobacterium <i>Trichodesmium</i> regulates aggregate architecture

scientific article published on 25 May 2023

Coral mucus rapidly induces chemokinesis and genome-wide transcriptional shifts toward early pathogenesis in a bacterial coral pathogen

scientific article published on 24 June 2021

Corner flow in free liquid films

Deployable micro-traps to sequester motile bacteria.

scientific article published on 5 April 2017

Diffusion-limited retention of porous particles at density interfaces

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Disruption of vertical motility by shear triggers formation of thin phytoplankton layers.

scientific article published in February 2009

Division by fluid incision: Biofilm patch development in porous media

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Dual function of tropodithietic acid as antibiotic and signaling molecule in global gene regulation of the probiotic bacterium Phaeobacter inhibens

scientific article published on 7 April 2017

Ecology and physics of bacterial chemotaxis in the ocean

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Encounter rates prime interactions between microorganisms

scientific article published in 2023

Energy Partitioning and Horizontal Dispersion in a Stratified Rotating Lake*

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Enhanced drag of a sphere settling in a stratified fluid at small Reynolds numbers

article published in 2009

Experimental verification of the behavioral foundation of bacterial transport parameters using microfluidics

scientific article published on 25 July 2008

Failed escape: solid surfaces prevent tumbling of Escherichia coli.

scientific article published on 7 August 2014

Filtration of submicrometer particles by pelagic tunicates

scientific article

Finding patches in a heterogeneous aquatic environment: pH-taxis by the dispersal stage of choanoflagellates

Flagella, flexibility and flow: Physical processes in microbial ecology

Fluid Mechanics of Planktonic Microorganisms

article published in 2012

Focus on the physics of biofilms

Generalized receptor law governs phototaxis in the phytoplankton Euglena gracilis

scientific article published on 11 May 2015

Gyrotaxis in a Steady Vortical Flow

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

High-avidity IgA protects the intestine by enchaining growing bacteria

scientific article published on 12 April 2017

Horizontal transport and dispersion in the surface layer of a medium-sized lake

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How cats lap: water uptake by Felis catus

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Immiscible Rayleigh–Taylor turbulence: Implications for bacterial degradation in oil spills

scientific article published in 2024

Intermittent turbulence in flowing bacterial suspensions

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Live from under the lens: exploring microbial motility with dynamic imaging and microfluidics

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Logarithmic sensing in Bacillus subtilis aerotaxis

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Low-Reynolds-number swimming at pycnoclines

scientific article published on 21 February 2012

Lubrication in a corner

Marine microbes see a sea of gradients

scientific article

Microbes in flow

scientific article published on 23 March 2015

Microbial Morphology and Motility as Biosignatures for Outer Planet Missions

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Microbial alignment in flow changes ocean light climate

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Microfluidic Studies of Biofilm Formation in Dynamic Environments

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Microfluidic characterization and continuous separation of cells and particles using conducting poly(dimethyl siloxane) electrode induced alternating current-dielectrophoresis.

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Microfluidics expanding the frontiers of microbial ecology

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Microfluidics for bacterial chemotaxis

scientific article published on 21 October 2010

Microscale Synthetic Schlieren

Modeling circulation in lakes: Spatial and temporal variations

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Motility drives bacterial encounter with particles responsible for carbon export throughout the ocean

scientific article published in 2019

Natural search algorithms as a bridge between organisms, evolution, and ecology

scientific article

Nutrient complexity triggers transitions between solitary and colonial growth in bacterial populations

scientific article published on 17 March 2021

Optimizing diffusion-driven flow in a fissure

PhenoChip: A single-cell phenomic platform for high-throughput photophysiological analyses of microalgae

scientific article published on 02 September 2020

Physical limits on bacterial navigation in dynamic environments

scientific article published on January 2016

Phytoplankton can actively diversify their migration strategy in response to turbulent cues

scientific article published on 15 March 2017

Publisher Correction: An automated Raman-based platform for the sorting of live cells by functional properties

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Rapid chemotactic response enables marine bacteria to exploit ephemeral microscale nutrient patches

scholarly article

Rational design of a microbial consortium of mucosal sugar utilizers reduces Clostridiodes difficile colonization

scientific article published on 09 October 2020

RecA protein plays a role in the chemotactic response and chemoreceptor clustering of Salmonella enterica

scientific journal article

Redefining the sponge-symbiont acquisition paradigm: sponge microbes exhibit chemotaxis towards host-derived compounds.

scientific article

Resilience of bacterial quorum sensing against fluid flow

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Resource patch formation and exploitation throughout the marine microbial food web.

scientific article published in January 2009

Response rescaling in bacterial chemotaxis

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Response to Comment on "How Cats Lap: Water Uptake by Felis catus"

scientific article published in Science

Reverse and flick: Hybrid locomotion in bacteria

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Sensitivity of the rate of nutrient uptake by chemotactic bacteria to physical and biological parameters in a turbulent environment

scientific article published on 18 September 2015

Separation of Microscale Chiral Objects by Shear Flow

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Shear-induced orientational dynamics and spatial heterogeneity in suspensions of motile phytoplankton

scientific article

Single-cell bacterial transcription measurements reveal the importance of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) hotspots in ocean sulfur cycling

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

Single-cell genomics reveals hundreds of coexisting subpopulations in wild Prochlorococcus.

scientific article

Speed-dependent chemotactic precision in marine bacteria

scientific article published on 20 July 2016

Spontaneous oscillations of a sessile lens

Stratlets: Low Reynolds Number Point-Force Solutions in a Stratified Fluid

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Strong chemotaxis by marine bacteria towards polysaccharides is enhanced by the abundant organosulfur compound DMSP

scientific article published in 2023

Synergistic prevention of biofouling in seawater desalination by zwitterionic surfaces and low-level chlorination.

scientific article

Systematic spatial bias in DNA microarray hybridization is caused by probe spot position-dependent variability in lateral diffusion

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Temperature-induced behavioral switches in a bacterial coral pathogen

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That sinking feeling: Suspended sediments can prevent the ascent of coral egg bundles

scientific article published on 22 February 2016

The Microbial Olympics 2016.

scientific article published on 26 July 2016

The ciliate Paramecium shows higher motility in non-uniform chemical landscapes

scientific article

The effect of flow on swimming bacteria controls the initial colonization of curved surfaces

scientific article published on 05 June 2020

The extracellular matrix Component Psl provides fast-acting antibiotic defense in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

The wiggling trajectories of bacteria

article by Yunkyong Hyon et al published 15 June 2012 in Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Thin phytoplankton layers: characteristics, mechanisms, and consequences

scientific article published on January 2012

Trade-offs of chemotactic foraging in turbulent water

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Tumbling for Stealth?

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Turbulence drives microscale patches of motile phytoplankton

scientific article published in January 2013

Turbulent fluid acceleration generates clusters of gyrotactic microorganisms

scientific article published on 31 January 2014

Variability in microbial community composition and function between different niches within a coral reef

scientific article

Visualization of coral host–pathogen interactions using a stable GFP-labeled Vibrio coralliilyticus strain

scholarly article by F. Joseph Pollock et al published 26 February 2015 in Coral Reefs

Vortical ciliary flows actively enhance mass transport in reef corals

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Zooming in on the phycosphere: the ecological interface for phytoplankton-bacteria relationships

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