Thomas lab alumni, Kayla Hogan and Sai Paul are first and co- authors of a new publication titled “Effect of Gravity on Bacterial Adhesion to Heterogeneous Surfaces.” This publication reports Kayla’s senior capstone project, Sai’s freshman project, and also includes contributions from co-authors who worked on a related Computational Bioengineering class project. In the paper, we use experiments and computational models to describe how bacterial adhesion to adhesion regions can reflect sedimentation and the geometry of fluidic channels as much as adhesivity.
Kayla is now a Medical student at the University of Washington, and Sai Paul recently earned her Ph.D. at Rice University in Bioengineering.