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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

It is critically important for all microswimmers to be able to reorient themselves in order to find food and to avoid toxins. The mechanism by which a bacterium with a single rigid flagellum may reorient is not immediately obvious and is due to a buckling instability of the short, flexible hook that connects the head to the flagellum. However, there are still several unresolved issues in modelling this process. In this talk, we present a discussion of these issues before presenting the results we have obtained from modelling the system ourselves.

Further information

Time:

18Mar
Mar 18th 2026
13:00 to 14:00

Venue:

MR12

Speaker:

Patrick Thomas (Univ. Cambridge)

Series:

Institute of Theoretical Geophysics lunchtime seminar