Kevin D. Whitley

The paper shows that FtsZ treadmilling drives nematic ordering in bacterial cells, enabling division ring formation through local dissolution of misaligned filaments.

This study tracks elongasome dynamics in Bacillus subtilis using single molecule fluorescence microscopy and shows molecular motor tug-of-war regulates processivity and termination events.

This study uses live-cell imaging to show that PBP2B moves processively and asynchronously with FtsZ in B. subtilis, supporting a new model of septal cell wall synthesis.