Research is a team effort! May 2025. Interested in joining the Drescher group? Our research group focuses on understanding bacterial multicellular development and functions. We use methods from physics, molecular biology,…

Research Fields Research at the Biozentrum is dedicated to the central question of how molecules and cells create life. We study the physical and biochemical mechanisms of cells and explore the behaviors and dynamics of…

Fabienne Estermann, PhD Student, Group Bumann Tell us more about your PhD project. The aim of my PhD project is to better understand the physiology of the hospital pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa in patients with acute…

Publication list - curated & annotated Recent highlights Bacteria use a general danger signal to trigger biofilm formation - Nature Microbiology 2025 Mechanical properties of biofilms measured with spatial resolution -…