NEWS & VIDEOS

We are excited to welcome graduate student Yein Ra to the Komeili Lab! Yein completed her undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley where she...

Komeili Lab PhD student Hayley McCausland and editor-in-chief celebrated the successful publication of the Spring 2020 issue of the...

Arash answers some questions about our "microscopic miners" in a recent interview as one of this year's Bakar Fellows. Check out the...

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Strawberry Creek on the Berkeley campus is home to some "wild" magnetotactic bacteria. The bacteria can be seen through a light...

Same as the previous video (magnetococci) except that the enriched bacteria are a population of Multicellular Magnetic Prokaryotes (MMP)....

Magnetotactic bacteria (likely magnetococci) enriched from an environmental sample at Woods Hole are forced to swim to the edge of a...

This is another way to visualize the turning of cells in a magnetic field.  The light scattering properties of a bacterial culture...

This is one way to visualize the magnetic response of a culture of magnetotactic bacteria.  In this experiment, Magnetospirillum...

This video showcases the cellular strucutre ofDesulfovibrio magneticusRS-1.  This organism is highly divergent from AMB-1 and forms...

This incredible electron cryotomography video highlights many of the intricate features that characterize the subcellular organization of...