This page contains some of my lecture material and more visual / presentation-type stuff (non-essays).

Microbes communicate! Some details on Quorum Sensing.

There are many different ways of communication out there, and even the tiniest of organisms are capable of doing so!

Microbes communicate with each other via chemical signals, a process called quorum sensing. It’s so cool to imagine that microbes live in their own little societies where they sense each other’s presence other in a space, can “talk” to each other and back each other up when needed (true story! Check out the comic strip!).

Whilst it was not directly something I was working on, I did come across quorum sensing a few times during my uni days and a couple of nice projects came from it.

Here is a comic strip I created to explain quorum sensing to my sister in law who is 10 years younger than me.

I also gave a third-year lecture on quorum sensing. This one is a bit more technical and assumes a bit of bio knowledge but it has some cool examples in it of different bacteria that use quorum sensing in different ways!

Here is a link to the actual slides I created, and here’s a link to my lecture notes.

Image source: meme generator