Dr Rachel Bennett
MSci, DPhil
Current positions
Lecturer
School of Mathematics
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Research interests
I am interested in soft and biological matter. Two strands to my research interests are theoretical modelling of mechanics of the cell nucleus and behaviours of swimming microorganisms, particularly focussing on bacteria interacting with surfaces and early stage biofilm formation.
Projects and supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
13/09/2023Direction selection of metachronal waves in hydrodynamic coordination of cilia
arXiv
Equation of state for active matter
Physical Review E
Conditions for metachronal coordination in arrays of model cilia
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Crash landing of Vibrio cholerae by MSHA pili-assisted braking and anchoring in a viscoelastic environment
eLife
Social cooperativity during surface attachment in early biofilms: a quantitative comparison between reversible attachment in P. aeruginosa PA14 and PAO1
mBio
