Alejandro Martínez-Calvo

Kinase KEY1 controls pyrenoid condensate size throughout the cell cycle by disrupting phase separation interactions

This study identifies the kinase KEY1 as a regulator of pyrenoid condensate size and dynamics in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, showing it disrupts phase separation interactions to control condensate dissolution during the cell cycle.

Death & Chemotaxis: Bacterial chemotaxis enables collective escape from phage predation

The paper shows that bacterial chemotaxis allows Escherichia coli to form fronts that escape phage predation without resistance.

Spatial self-organization of confined bacterial suspensions

This study investigates how confinement affects bacterial populations by showing that Escherichia coli in quasi-2D droplets self-organize into a core-shell structure driven by oxygen dynamics and motility.

Sticky enzymes: increased metabolic efficiency via substrate-dependent enzyme clustering

This paper proposes a self-organization strategy for enzyme clustering based on substrate-dependent stickiness, showing significant increases in pathway flux and reductions in toxic metabolites.

Microbial mutualism generates multistable and oscillatory growth dynamics

This study models mutualistic interactions between aerobes and anaerobes, revealing bistable and oscillatory dynamics in microbial communities under varying environmental conditions.