Living multicellular systems induce decodable spatial patterns in bacterial collectives
Elena G. Sergeeva, Federico Pigozzi, Thomas F. Varley, Colin J. Comerci, Zhe Qian Zhao, Robert Brucker, Gürol M. Süel, Joshua Bongard, Michael G. Levin
This study shows that bacterial collectives can encode information about nearby multicellular systems through spatial patterns and machine learning.
bioRxiv · Sep 3, 2026 · PreprintSystems Biology