Gurol Suel
Research
Our laboratory discovered ion channel-mediated electrical signaling among bacteria that reside in biofilm communities. We are investigating how these “action potentials” in biofilms give rise to emergent collective behaviors in biofilms and beyond. Accordingly, we integrate quantitative biology approaches with mathematical modeling and theory to identify principles of bacterial organization and coordination.
Select Publications
- A segmentation clock patterns cellular differentiation in a bacterial biofilm
Chou K.T., Lee D.D., Chiou J.G., Galera-Laporta L., Ly S., Garcia-Ojalvo J., Süel G.M.
Cell, (2022) Volume 185, Issue 1 - Magnesium Flux Modulates Ribosomes to Increase Bacterial Survival
Lee DD, Galera-Laporta L, Bialecka-Fornal M, Moon EC, Shen Z, Briggs SP, Garcia-Ojalvo J, and Süel GM
Cell, (2019) Volume 177, Issue 2 - Coupling between distant biofilms and emergence of nutrient time-sharing
Liu J, Martinez-Corral R, Prindle A, Lee DD, Larkin J, Gabalda-Sagarra M, Garcia-Ojalvo J and Süel GM
Science, (2017) Volume 356, Issue 6338 - Species-independent attraction to biofilms through electrical signaling
Humphries J, Xiong L, Liu L, Prindle L, Yuan F, Tsimring L and Süel GM
Cell, (2017) vol 168, num 1 - Ion channels enable electrical communication in bacterial communities
Prindle A., Liu J., Asally M., Ly S., Garcia-Ojalvo J., Süel G.M.
Nature, (2015), vol 527, num 7576 - Metabolic codependence gives rise to collective oscillations within biofilms.
Liu J., Prindle A,. Humphries J., Gabalda-Sagarra M., Asally M., Lee D.D., Ly S., Garcia-Ojalvo J., Süel, G.M.
Nature (2015) vol 523, num 7562
Biography
Dr. Süel received his PhD in Molecular Biophysics from the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center in the laboratory of Dr. Rama Ranganathan and conducted his postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Dr Michael Elowitz in the Department of Biology and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology.
