Karin Jacobs and her group and coworkers took another close look at Staphylococcus aureus, and I could contribute with a geometric model of patchy cell adhesion.
Christian Spengler et al., The adhesion capability of Staphylococcus aureus cells is heterogeneously distributed over the cell envelope, Soft Matter 20, 484–494 (2024).
The adhesion capability on the bacterium is not evenly distributed but rather “patchy”. Some of the characteristic features of this heterogeneous distribution can be captured by a simple geometric model that I could contribute to the paper.
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-aureus-surface-ability-evenly-cell.html
Michael Andreas Klatt 