Remy Colin

Dr. Remy Colin is a Project Group Leader at the Department of Systems & Synthetic Microbiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany. His research focuses on the biophysics of bacterial motility and chemotaxis, particularly how hydrodynamic interactions, cell variability, and environmental sensing govern microbial population organization.

• Education:
  • Licence (BSc) in Physics, University Paris Sud 11, France (2007)
  • MSc in Physics, University Paris Sud 11 (2009)
  • PhD in Physics, Complex Matter and Systems Laboratory, University Paris 7 Diderot (2012)
• Postdoctoral Training:
  • Biological Physics, Rowland Institute at Harvard (2012-2014)
  • Biological Physics, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology (2014-2018)

Research Interests include emergent properties of bacterial chemotaxis, hydrodynamic interactions in microbial suspensions, and population-level effects of individual cell variability. His group combines microscopy, microfluidics, image analysis, and numerical simulations to study non-equilibrium microbial systems.

Recent Work Trends (2025-2019) reveal expertise in chemotaxis pathways, flagellar motility, and active matter physics. Key themes:

• Evolutionary adaptation of chemotaxis networks
• Physics of bacterial swimming and fitness trade-offs
• Autoinducer-2 signaling in autoaggregation
• Hydrodynamic interactions in clonal populations
• Dynamic fluctuations in metabolic networks
• Emergent properties of bacterial chemotaxis

Contact:

• Phone: +49 6421 28 21615
• Email: remy.colin@...