Research Highlights
Research Bar
Swimming driven by a Helical Flagellum Swimming driven by a Helical Flagellum
Student Flows in Texas Student Flows in Texas
Motors and Disease Motors and Disease
Atomic Theory of Dynamic Fracture Atomic Theory of Dynamic Fracture
Fracture of Rubber Fracture of Rubber
Multiscale Bacterial Analysis Multiscale Bacterial Analysis
Physics of Hydrofracture Physics of Hydrofracture
Larval Crawling Larval Crawling
Hands-On Schools Hands-On Schools

Recent Publications

Evolutionary adaptations of biofilms infecting cystic fibrosis lungs promote mechanical toughness by adjusting polysaccharide production
Kristin Kovach, Megan Davis-Fields, Yasuhiko Irie, Kanishk Jain, Shashvat Doorwar, Katherine Vuong, Numa Dhamani, Kishore Mohanty, Ahmed Touhami & Vernita D Gordon, 1 (2017) pdf
Nucleation of athermal hard spheres
Frank Rietz, Charles Radin, Harry L. Swinney, Matthias Schröter, (2017) pdf
Internal wave generation by tidal flow over periodically and randomly distributed seamounts
Likun Zhang, Maarten C. Buijsman, Eva Comino, and Harry L. Swinney, (2017) pdf
Mechanosensing of shear by Pseudomonas aeruginosa leads to increased levels of the cyclic-di-GMP signal initiating biofilm development
Christopher A. Rodesney, Brian Roman, Numa Dhamani, Benjamin J. Cooley, Ahmed Touhami and Vernita D. Gordon, PNAS 114 235906 – 5911 (2017) pdf
Biofilms and mechanics: a review of experimental techniques and findings
Vernita D Gordon, Megan Davis-Fields, Kristin Kovach, and Christopher A Rodesney, 50 22 (2017) pdf
Coupling and sharing when life is hard
Vernita Gordon, 356 6338583-584 (2017) pdf
Physics, fracking, fuel, and the future
Michael Marder, Tadeusz Patzek and Scott W. Tinker, 69 746 (2016) pdf
The Pseudomonas aeruginosa PSL polysaccharide is a social but non-cheatable trait in biofilms
Yasuhiko Irie, Aled Roberts, Kasper N Kragh, Vernita D Gordon, Jamie Hutchison, Rosalind J Allen, Gavin Melaugh, Thomas Bjarnsholt, Stuart A West, Stephen P Diggle, (2016) pdf
Singly Flagellated Pseudomonas aeruginosa Chemotaxes Efficiently by Unbiased Motor Regulation
Qiuxian Caia, Zhaojun Lia, Qi Ouyanga, Chunxiong Luoa, Vernita D. Gordon, 7 2e00013-16 (2016) pdf
Observations of the stratorotational instability in rotating concentric cylinders
R. Ibanez, H. L. Swinney, and B. Rodenborn, 1 053601 (2016) pdf
Asymmetry and inequity in the inheritance of a bacterial adhesive
Benjamin J Cooley, Sheri Dellos-Nolan, Numa Dhamani, Ross Todd, William Waller, Daniel Wozniak and Vernita D Gordon, 18 (2016) pdf
Direct observation of intermediate states in model membrane fusion
Andrea Keidel, Tobias F. Bartsch & Ernst-Ludwig Florin, (2016) pdf
Internal wave pressure, velocity, and energy flux from density perturbations
Michael R. Allshouse, Frank M. Lee, P. J. Morrison, Harry L. Swinney, Physical Review Fluids 1 014301 (2016) pdf
Role of Multicellular Aggregates in Biofilm Formation
Kasper N. Kragha, Jaime B. Hutchisonc, Gavin Melaughd, Chris Rodesneyc, Aled E. L. Roberts, Yasuhiko Irie, Peter ?. Jensen, Stephen P. Diggle, Rosalind J. Allen, Vernita Gordon Thomas Bjarnsholt, (2016) pdf