{"663430":{"#nid":"663430","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Ocean Bacteria Reveal an Unexpected Multicellular Form","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMost people may think of bacteria, regardless of species and shape, as a single cell, or maybe several free-living cells.\u0026nbsp;The problem with this image, according to\u0026nbsp;microbiologists,\u0026nbsp;is that it doesn\u0026rsquo;t reflect how most bacteria are likely to live. Often, bacteria use sticky molecules to anchor themselves to a surface, growing in collectives\u0026nbsp;called biofilms. A new \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S096098222200923X\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;shows that even bacteria floating in the open ocean, which lack an anchoring point for forming large conglomerates, exist in multicellular forms. The study builds on 2021 published \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.08.03.454982v1\u0022\u003Eresearch\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;from Georgia Tech scientists that showed unicellular yeast forming multicellular clusters. The \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E researchers include \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/gonensin-bozdag\u0022\u003EOzan Bozdag\u003C\/a\u003E, research scientist; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWilliam Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/kai-tong\u0022\u003EKai Tong\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D. Quantitative Biosciences student, and Penelope Kahn.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physic\u003C\/a\u003Es researchers involved include \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/peter-yunker\u0022\u003EPeter Yunker\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=D3V-K8kAAAAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0022\u003EThomas C. Day,\u003C\/a\u003E graduate student; and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/seyed-alireza-zamani-dahaj-192a397a\u0022\u003ESeyed Alireza Zamani-Dahaj\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D. student.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2022-11-23 16:16:05","changed_gmt":"2022-11-23 16:16:05","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/ocean-bacteria-reveal-an-unexpected-multicellular-form-20221102\/","dateline":{"date":"2022-11-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-11-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"177585","name":"William Ratcliff"},{"id":"191688","name":"G. Ozan Bozdag"},{"id":"189057","name":"Seyed Alireza Zamani-Dahaj"},{"id":"191689","name":"Penelope Kahn"},{"id":"189055","name":"Thomas C. Day"},{"id":"189056","name":"Kai Tong"},{"id":"168707","name":"Peter Yunker"},{"id":"176339","name":"multicellularity"},{"id":"7077","name":"bacteria"},{"id":"170021","name":"biofilms"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}