The prey (blue) multiply, don't move and produce capsule (purple). The predators (red) move towards prey and attack non-kin. They divide only if they lyse prey. The defenders (orange) move randomly and defend themselves by retaliation (divide if they lyse a cell). Who wins?

Check out the NotebookLM powered interactive Q&A: This is based on the scientific literature and the simulation code. Literature is cited in the help and the documentation. Extremely helpful!.

Major update to BacFighT6: Simulate the role of motility/chemotaxis, capsule production, activation by autoinducers, contact dependent killing, kin-exclusion, foraging and more. Long simulations, extensive data import/export and analysis. Interactive Q&A!.

To make our research more approachable, I used #Gemini to develop (mostly by #vibecoding) a simulation of #T6SS mediated bacterial interactions. I hope that you'll have as much fun as I have with this and that you'll learn something new!.

Happy to help William with his high school graduation project:. Congratulations!. Thanks to @biozentrum and @NCCR_AntiResist for support.

Thank you, Katrin, for a great news article:. Damaged but not defeated: Bacteria use nano-spearguns to retaliate against attacks. And the @SNIunibas for producing this video summary:.

Poke bacteria with a sharp needle and they poke back in just a few seconds!.Congratulations to Mitchell (and others) for this analysis of Pseudomonas #T6SS assembly in response to membrane damage!.Collaboration with Rod Lim's lab @biozentrum + @SNIunibas!.

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For over 10 years, we've known that neighboring P. aeruginosa cells engage in rounds of H1-T6SS firing. It was unclear how this starts since H1-T6SS only fires in response to an attack. Now we know:.Congrats Max, Sharath, Alejandro, and others!.

Happy to support Gabriela's successful high school graduation project!. More information here:. Thanks to @biozentrum and @NCCR_AntiResist.for support as well as to @SJf_CH for organizing the competition!.

Thank you, Katrin (@biozentrum), for a great summary of our work!.

Congratulations to Miro (@PlumifyM), Christy (@christy_chc), Patricia and others on a beautiful paper showing #T6SS role in spreading of Burkholderia thailandensis between infected cells:.

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CONGRATS, Andrea!!.

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Big thanks to @EMBO for this amazing recognition, @biozentrum and @UniBasel_en for the support but most importantly current and past members of my lab for their curiosity, hard work but also all the fun we have had! Can't wait to see what we might discover together in the future!.

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