Bacteria


E. coli microcolony

Bacterial videos

Proteus mirabilis Swarm Colony Development

Thinking about bacteria as multicellular organisms

"Patterned Proteus - presented at an ICAM workshop 'Designing Emergent Matter,' Santa Fe, NM, January 18, 2001"

Bacteria are small but not stupid: cognition, natural genetic engineering and sociobacteriology, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 38 (2007) 807–819  - based on a lecture presented to a workshop on Philosophical and Social Dimensions of Microbiology, University of Exeter, July 2006