Roman Stocker

Roman Stocker

Environmental Microfluidics Group, MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Affiliated withMIT - Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInstitute of Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic EngineeringETH Zürich

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Biography

After a Ph.D. at the University of Padova and 13 years as an Instructor, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at MIT, Roman Stocker became Professor of Groundwater and Hydromechanics and Group Leader of the Environmental Microfluidics Lab at ETH Zurich in 2015.

His research leverages microfluidics, state-of-the-art microscopy, image analysis, and mathematical modeling to understand how the lives of aquatic microbes, and ultimately their contribution to biogeochemical cycles at the ecosystem scale, are governed by fluid flow, motility and chemotaxis at the microscale.

JoVE Journal Publications

ArticleTotal : 7
Year
Chemotactic Response of Marine Micro-Organisms to Micro-Scale Nutrient Layers
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2007
2007
2020
2020
2022

Other Publications

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

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 18337491

2008
2008
2009
Separation of microscale chiral objects by shear flow.

Physical review letters| PubMed ID: 19522552

2009
Microbiology. Tumbling for stealth?

Science (New York, N.Y.)| PubMed ID: 19628846

2009
2010
2010
Filtration of submicrometer particles by pelagic tunicates.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 20696887

2010
Microfluidics for bacterial chemotaxis.

Integrative biology : quantitative biosciences from nano to macro| PubMed ID: 20967322

2010
How cats lap: water uptake by Felis catus.

Science (New York, N.Y.)| PubMed ID: 21071630

2010
Diffusion-limited retention of porous particles at density interfaces.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 21135242

2010
Reverse and flick: Hybrid locomotion in bacteria.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 21289282

2011
Microbial alignment in flow changes ocean light climate.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 21368125

2011
2011
2011
Gyrotaxis in a steady vortical flow.

Physical review letters| PubMed ID: 21770545

2011
Response rescaling in bacterial chemotaxis.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 21808031

2011
2011
2011
Low-Reynolds-number swimming at pycnoclines.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 22355147

2012
Bacterial rheotaxis.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 22411815

2012
Thin phytoplankton layers: characteristics, mechanisms, and consequences.

Annual review of marine science| PubMed ID: 22457973

2012
Marine microbes see a sea of gradients.

Science (New York, N.Y.)| PubMed ID: 23118182

2012
Trade-offs of chemotactic foraging in turbulent water.

Science (New York, N.Y.)| PubMed ID: 23118190

2012
Ecology and physics of bacterial chemotaxis in the ocean.

Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR| PubMed ID: 23204367

2012
Turbulence drives microscale patches of motile phytoplankton.

Nature communications| PubMed ID: 23852011

2013
2013
2013
2014
2014
2014
2014
Competition-dispersal tradeoff ecologically differentiates recently speciated marine bacterioplankton populations.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 24706766

2014
2014
Microfluidics expanding the frontiers of microbial ecology.

Annual review of biophysics| PubMed ID: 24773019

2014
2014
2014
Vortical ciliary flows actively enhance mass transport in reef corals.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 25192936

2014
2015
Microbes in flow.

Current opinion in microbiology| PubMed ID: 25812434

2015
2015
2015
2015
2016
Physical limits on bacterial navigation in dynamic environments.

Journal of the Royal Society, Interface| PubMed ID: 26763331

2016
Chemotaxis toward phytoplankton drives organic matter partitioning among marine bacteria.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 26802122

2016
2016
2016
Sperm chemotaxis promotes individual fertilization success in sea urchins.

The Journal of experimental biology| PubMed ID: 26994183

2016
Microfluidic Studies of Biofilm Formation in Dynamic Environments.

Journal of bacteriology| PubMed ID: 27274032

2016
Intermittent turbulence in flowing bacterial suspensions.

Journal of the Royal Society, Interface| PubMed ID: 27307513

2016
Speed-dependent chemotactic precision in marine bacteria.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 27439872

2016
Natural search algorithms as a bridge between organisms, evolution, and ecology.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 27496324

2016
The Microbial Olympics 2016.

Nature microbiology| PubMed ID: 27573121

2016
Resilience of bacterial quorum sensing against fluid flow.

Scientific reports| PubMed ID: 27650454

2016
2016
A particularly useful system to study the ecology of microbes.

Environmental microbiology reports| PubMed ID: 27759951

2017
2017
Deployable micro-traps to sequester motile bacteria.

Scientific reports| PubMed ID: 28378786

2017
2017
2017
2017
2017
Logarithmic sensing in aerotaxis.

NPJ systems biology and applications| PubMed ID: 28725484

2017
2017
2017
2018
2018
A Foraging Mandala for Aquatic Microorganisms.

The ISME journal| PubMed ID: 30446738

2019
2019
The role of microbial motility and chemotaxis in symbiosis.

Nature reviews. Microbiology| PubMed ID: 30923350

2019
2019
2019
Bacteria push the limits of chemotactic precision to navigate dynamic chemical gradients.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 31097577

2019
Bacterial maze runners reveal hidden diversity in chemotactic performance.

Microbial cell (Graz, Austria)| PubMed ID: 31403051

2019
Not Just Going with the Flow: The Effects of Fluid Flow on Bacteria and Plankton.

Annual review of cell and developmental biology| PubMed ID: 31412210

2019
2019
On the collision of rods in a quiescent fluid.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 32015116

2020
Bacterial Glycogen Provides Short-Term Benefits in Changing Environments.

Applied and environmental microbiology| PubMed ID: 32111592

2020
Raman-based sorting of microbial cells to link functions to their genes.

Microbial cell (Graz, Austria)| PubMed ID: 32161766

2020
2020
2020
Bursts Characterize Coagulation of Rods in a Quiescent Fluid.

Physical review letters| PubMed ID: 32639757

2020
Flagellar kinematics reveals the role of environment in shaping sperm motility.

Journal of the Royal Society, Interface| PubMed ID: 32900303

2020
2020
Constrained optimal foraging by marine bacterioplankton on particulate organic matter.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 32973087

2020
2020
2020
2021
2021
2021
2021
Bistability in oxidative stress response determines the migration behavior of phytoplankton in turbulence.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 33495340

2021
2021
2021
2021
2021
2021
2021
2021