Katie Brenner

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system (CNS), resulting in neurological disability that worsens over time. While progress has been made in defining...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is considered an inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system, typically resulting in significant neurological disability that worsens over time. While considerable progress has been...

We present a laboratory experiment that introduces high school chemistry students to microfluidics while teaching fundamental properties of acid-base chemistry. The procedure enables students to create microfluidic systems using nonspecialized...

Most microorganisms in nature subsist as heterogeneous surface-associated communities called biofilms. In biofilms members of one or more microbial species live together for multiple generations, and this allows them to...

Microbial consortia constitute a majority of the earth's biomass, but little is known about how these cooperating communities persist despite competition among community members. Theory suggests that non-random spatial structures...

Microbial consortia are ubiquitous in nature and are implicated in processes of great importance to humans, from environmental remediation and wastewater treatment to assistance in food digestion. Synthetic biologists are...

Microbial consortia form when multiple species colocalize and communally generate a function that none is capable of alone. Consortia abound in nature, and their cooperative metabolic activities influence everything from...