| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of this study is to understand mechanism of the collective motion in a dense suspension of swimming bacteria and to control the collective motion. Results are as follows: (1) collective motion of bacteria can be confined in a circular pool on an agar medium with the size of 10 micrometers, which is made with ultrafine glass needle operated by a micromanipulator. (2) Accumulating bacteria around the tip of a capillary with an attractant were observed. When a cell swims toward the attractant, frequency of the tumble of a cell decreases (from 0.5 Hz to 0.3 Hz). (3) Motion of microbeads in the bacterial suspension was analyzed. The mean square displacement (MSD) of the microbeads is different from Brownian motion in the sense that the time exponent of the MSD is 1.7 - 1.8, whereas that of a Brownian particle is exactly 1.
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