Publications

• [22] Siyu Liu, Ye Li, Haoran Xu, Daniel B. Kearns & Yilin Wu (2024) Active interface bulging in Bacillus subtilis swarms promotes self-assembly and biofilm formation. PNAS, 121(31) e2322025121. [pdf]. [Link]. [bioRxiv]
• [21] Shiqi Liu, Ye Li, Yuhao Wang & Yilin Wu (2024) Emergence of large-scale mechanical spiral waves in bacterial living matter. Nature Physics, 20, 1015–1021. [pdf]. [Link]. [Movie 1]. [Movie 2]
        Nature Physics News & Views [Link]. Featured in Phys.org [Link]
  
• [20] Haoran Xu & Yilin Wu (2024) Self-enhanced mobility enables vortex pattern formation in living matter. Nature, 627, 553–558. [pdf]. [Link]. [arXiv]. [Movie 1]. [Movie 2]
• [19] Haoran Xu, Mehrana R. Nejad, Julia M. Yeomans & Yilin Wu (2023) Geometrical control of interface patterning underlies active matter invasion. PNAS, 120 (30) e2219708120. [pdf]. [Link]. [arXiv]. [Movie 1]. [Movie 2]. [Movie 3]
• [18] Haoran Xu, Yulu Huang, Rui Zhang & Yilin Wu (2023) Autonomous waves and global motion modes in living active solids. Nature Physics, 19, 46–51. [pdf]. [Link]. [arXiv]. [Movie 1]. [Movie 2]. [Movie 3]
        Nature Physics News & Views [Link]
• [17] Ding Cao, Mariia Dvoriashyna, Song Liu, Eric Lauga & Yilin Wu (2022) Reduced surface accumulation of swimming bacteria in viscoelastic polymer fluids. PNAS, 119(45):e2212078119. [pdf]. [Link]
• [16] Ye Li, Shiqi Liu, Yingdan Zhang, Zi Jing Seng, Haoran Xu, Liang Yang & Yilin Wu (2022) Self-organized canals enable long range directed material transport in bacterial communities. eLife, 11:e79780. [pdf]. [Link]. [bioRxiv]
• [15] Liu, S., Shankar, S., Marchetti, M. C., & Wu, Y. (2021) Viscoelastic control of spatiotemporal order in bacterial active matter. Nature, 590, 80-84. [pdf]. [Link]. [Movie 1]. [Movie 2]
• [14] Yilin Wu & Haoran Xu (2021) Self-organized collective motion in bacterial communities, in Roadmap on emerging concepts in the physical biology of bacterial biofilms: from surface sensing to community formation. Physical Biology. 18(5):051501. [pdf]. [Link]
• [13] Wenlong Zuo & Yilin Wu (2020) Dynamic motility selection drives population segregation in a bacterial swarm. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 117(9):4693-4700. [pdf]. [Link]
• [12] Haoran Xu, Justas Dauparas, Debasish Das, Eric Lauga, Yilin Wu (2019) Self-organization of swimmers drives long-range fluid transport in bacterial colonies. Nature Communications. 10, 1792. [pdf]. [Link]. [Movie 1]. [Movie 2]. [Movie 3].
        NSFC News [Link] ; Nature Research Microbiology Community Blog [Link]
• [11] Ye Li*, He Zhai*, Sandra Sanchez, Daniel B. Kearns, Yilin Wu (2017) Non-contact cohesive swimming of bacteria in two-dimensional liquid films. Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 018101. (*co-first authors) [pdf]. [Link]. [Movie 1]. [Movie 2]. [Movie 3].
• [10] Chong Chen*, Song Liu*, Xiaqing Shi, Hugues Chaté, Yilin Wu (2017) Weak synchronization and large-scale collective oscillation in dense bacterial suspensions. Nature, 542, 210–214. (*co-first authors) [pdf]. [Link]. [Movie 1]. [Movie 2].
       CUHK Press Release, [English], [中文]. Featured in APS News [Link]
  
• [9] Wu, Y. (2015). Collective motion of bacteria in two dimensions. Quantitative Biology, 3(4), 199–205. [Full Text]
• [8] Ping L, Wu Y, Hosu BG, Tang JX, Berg HC (2014) Osmotic pressure inside a bacterial swarm. Biophysical Journal 107:871-878. [Full Text]
• [7] Wu Y, Berg HC (2012) Water reservoir maintained by cell growth fuels the spreading of a bacterial swarm. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109(11):4128-33. [Full Text]
• [6] Wu Y, Jiang Y, Kaiser D, Alber M (2011) Self-organization in bacterial swarming: Lessons from Myxobacteria. Physical Biology 8: 055003. [Full Text]
• [5] Wu Y, Hosu BG, Berg HC (2011) Microbubbles reveal chiral fluid flows in bacterial swarms. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108(10): 4147-51. [Full Text]
• [4] Wu Y, Kaiser D, Jiang Y, Alber M (2009) Periodic reversal of direction allows myxobacteria to swarm. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106(4): 1222–1227. [Nature News: doi:10.1038/news.2009.43 ] [Full Text]
• [3] Wu Y, Jiang Y, Kaiser D, Alber M (2007) Social interactions in myxobacterial swarming. PLoS Comput Biol 3(12): e253. [Full Text]
• [2] Wu Y, Chen N, Rissler M, Jiang Y, Kaiser D, Alber M CA (2006) Models of Myxobacteria Swarming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 4173, pp.192-203. [Full Text]
• [1] Yang WS, Wang BH, Wu Y, Xie YB (2004) Searching good strategies in evolutionary minority game using variable length genetic algorithm. Physica A 339: 583–590. [Full Text]