Papers

    1. Durham W.M., Climent E., Barry M., De Lillo F., Boffetta G., Cencini M. & Stocker R., “Turbulence drives microscale patches of motile phytoplankton”, under review.
    2. Son K., Guasto J.S. & Stocker R., “Bacteria can turn via a flagellar buckling instability”, under review.
    3. Peruzzo P., Defina A., Nepf H.M. & Stocker R., “Capillary interception of floating particles by emergent vegetation”, under review.
    4. Garren M., Son K., Raina J.B., Rusconi R., Menolascina F., Shapiro O.H., Tout J., Bourne D.G., Seymour J.R. & Stocker R., “A bacteria pathogen uses dimethylsulfoniopropionate as a cue to target heat-stressed corals”, under review.
    5. Durham W.M., Tranzier O., Leombruni A. & Stocker R., 2012, “Division by fluid incision: Biofilm patch development in porous media”, Physics of Fluids, 24, 091107.
    6. Stocker R., 2012, “Marine microbes see a sea of gradients”, Science, 338, 628-633.
    7. Taylor J.R. & Stocker R., 2012, “Trade-offs of chemotactic foraging in turbulent water”, Science, 338, 675-679.
    8. Stocker R. & Seymour J.R., 2012, “Ecology and physics of bacterial chemotaxis in the ocean”, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 76, 792-812 (Featured on the cover).
    9. Hyon Y., Marcos, Powers T.R., Stocker R. & Fu H.C., 2012, “The wiggling trajectories of bacteria”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 705, 58-76.
    10. Marcos, Fu H.C., Powers T.R. & Stocker R., 2012, “Bacterial rheotaxis”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 4780-4785.
    11. Doostmohammadi A., Stocker R. & Ardekani A.M., 2012, “Low Reynolds number swimming at pycnoclines”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 3586-3861.
    12. Lewpiriyawong N., Kandaswamy K., Yang C., Ivanov V. & Stocker R., 2011, “Microfluidic characterization and continuous separation of cells and particles using conducting poly(dimethyl siloxane) electrode induced alternating current-dielectrophoresis”, Analytical Chemistry, 83, 9579-9585.
    13. Steger D., Berry D., Haider S., Horn M., Wagner M., Stocker R. & Loy A., 2011, “Systematic spatial bias in DNA microarray hybridization is caused by probe spot position-dependent variability in lateral diffusion”, PLoS ONE, 6, e23727.
    14. Lazova M.D., Ahmed T., Bellomo D., Stocker R. & Shimizu T.S., 2011, “Response rescaling in bacterial chemotaxis”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 13870-13875.
    15. Durham W.M. & Stocker R., 2012, “Thin phytoplankton layers: Characteristics, mechanisms and consequences”, Annual Review of Marine Sciences, 4, 177–207.
    16. Guasto J.S., Rusconi R. & Stocker R., 2012, “Fluid mechanics of planktonic microorganisms”, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 44, 373-400.
    17. Durham W.M., Climent E. & Stocker R., 2011, “Gyrotaxis in a steady vortical flow”, Physical Review Letters, 106, 238102.
    18. Marcos, Seymour J.R., Luhar M., Durham W.M., Mitchell J.G., Macke A. & Stocker R., 2011, “Microbial alignment in flow changes ocean light climate”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 3860-3864.
    19. Giuffré C., Hinow P., Vogel R., Ahmed T., Stocker R., Consi T.R. & Strickler J.R., 2011, “The ciliate Paramecium shows higher motility in non-uniform chemical landscapes”, PLoS ONE, 6, e15274.
    20. Aristoff J.M., Stocker R., Reis P.M. & Jung S., 2011, “On the water lapping of felines and the water running of lizards: A unifying physical perspective”, Communicative and Integrative Biology, 4, 1-3.
    21. Stocker R., 2011, “Reverse and flick: Hybrid locomotion in bacteria”, Communicative & Integrative Biology, 4:2, 213-215.
    22. Stocker R., Aristoff J.M., Jung S. & Reis P.M., 2010, “Response to comment on how cats lap: Water uptake by Felis catus”, Science, 334, 311.
    23. Reis P.M., Jung S., Aristoff J.M. & Stocker R., 2010, “How cats lap: Water uptake by Felis catus”, Science, 330, 1231-1234. (All authors equal in status)
      (Featured on the cover).

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    24. Kindler K., Khalili A. & Stocker R., 2010, “Diffusion-limited retention of porous particles at density interfaces”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 22163-22168.
    25. Ahmed T., Shimizu T.S. & Stocker R., 2010, “Microfluidics for bacterial chemotaxis”, Integrative Biology, 2, 604-629. (Among the top ten articles accessed from the online version in March 2011.)
    26. Ardekani A.M. & Stocker R., 2010, “Stratlets: Low Reynolds number point-force solutions in a stratified fluid”, Physical Review Letters, 105, 084502.
    27. Sutherland K.R., Madin L.P. & Stocker R., 2010, “Filtration of submicrometer particles by pelagic tunicates”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 15129-15134.
    28. Seymour J.R., Simó R., Ahmed T. & Stocker R., 2010, “Chemoattraction to dimethyl- sulfoniopropionate throughout the marine microbial food web”, Science, 329, 342-345.

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    1. Ahmed T., Shimizu T.S. & Stocker R., 2010, “Bacterial chemotaxis in linear and nonlinear steady microfluidic gradients”, Nano Letters, 10, 3379-3385.
    2. Seymour J.R., Ahmed T., Durham W.M. & Stocker R., 2010, “Chemotactic response of marine bacteria to the extracellular products of Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus”, Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 59, 161-168.
    3. Seymour J.R., Ahmed T. & Stocker R., 2009, “Bacterial chemotaxis towards the extracellular products of the toxic phytoplankton Heterosigma akashiwo”, Journal of Plankton Research, 31, 1557-1561.
    4. Stocker R. & Durham W.M., 2009, “Tumbling for stealth?”, Science, 325, 400-402.
    5. Yick K.Y., Torres C., Peacock T. & Stocker R., 2009, “Enhanced drag of a sphere settling in a stratified fluid at small Reynolds numbers”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 632, 49-68.
    6. Marcos, Fu H., Powers T.R. & Stocker R., 2009, “Separation of microscale objects by flow”, Physical Review Letters, 102, 158103.

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    1. Durham W.M., Kessler J.O. & Stocker R., 2009, “Disruption of vertical motility by shear triggers formation of thin phytoplankton layers”, Science, 323, 1067-1070.

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    1. Seymour J.R., Marcos & Stocker R., 2009, “Resource patch formation and exploitation throughout the marine microbial food web”, American Naturalist, 173, E15-E29.
    2. Ahmed T. & Stocker R., 2008, “Experimental verification of the behavioral foundation of bacterial transport parameters using microfluidics”, Biophysical Journal, 95, 4481-4493.
    3. Seymour J.R., Ahmed T., Marcos & Stocker R., 2008, “A microfluidic chemotaxis assay to study microbial behaviour in diffusing nutrient patches”, Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 6, 477-488.
    4. Stocker R., Seymour J.R., Samadani A., Hunt D.E. & Polz M.F., 2008, “Rapid chemotactic response enables marine bacteria to exploit ephemeral microscale nutrient patches”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 4209-4214.

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    1. Seymour J.R., Marcos & Stocker R., 2007, “Chemotactic response of marine microorganisms to microscale nutrient layers”, Journal of Visualized Experiments, 4, 052807 (video-publication: www.jove.com/index/details.stp?ID=203).
    2. Stocker R. & Bush J.W.M., 2007, “Spontaneous oscillations of a sessile lens”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 583, 465-475.

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  1. Yick K.Y., Stocker R. & Peacock T., 2007, “Microscale Synthetic Schlieren”, Experiments in Fluids, 42, 41-48.
  2. Marcos & Stocker R., 2006, “Microorganisms in vortices: A microfluidic setup”, Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 4, 392-398.
  3. Heitz R., Peacock T. & Stocker R., 2005, “Optimizing diffusion-driven flow in a fissure”, Physics of Fluids, 17, 128104, 1-3.
  4. Stocker R. & Hosoi A.E., 2005, “Lubrication in a corner”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 544, 353-377.
  5. Stocker R. & Hosoi A.E., 2004, “Corner flow in free liquid films”, Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 50, 267-288.
  6. Peacock T., Stocker R. & Aristoff J.M., 2004, “An experimental investigation of the angular dependence of diffusion-driven flow”, Physics of Fluids, 16, 3503-3505.
  7. Wake G., Ivey G.N., Imberger J., MacDonald R. & Stocker R., 2004, “Baroclinic geostrophic adjustment in a rotating circular basin”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 515, 63-86.
  8. Laval B., Imberger J., Hodges B.R. & Stocker R., 2003, “Modelling circulation in lakes: Spatial and temporal variations”, Limnology and Oceanography, 48, 983-994.
  9. Stocker R. & Imberger J., 2003, “Energy partitioning and horizontal dispersion in a stratified rotating lake”, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 33, 512-529.
  10. Johnson D., Stocker R., Head R., Imberger J. & Pattiaratchi C., 2003, “A compact, low-cost GPS drifter for use in the Oceanic nearshore zone, lakes and estuaries”, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 20, 1880-1884.
  11. Stocker R. & Imberger J., 2003, “Horizontal transport and dispersion in the surface layer of a medium-sized lake”, Limnology and Oceanography, 48, 971-982.

Book Chapters

Khalili A., Liu B., Morad R., Javadi K., Morad M.R., Matyka M., Kindler K., Stocker R. & Koza Z. “Application of porous media in marine biological modeling”, in “Application of porous media in biology and biotechnology”, K. Vafai ed., Dekker, 2010.

Interviews

  1. Interview @ JOVE
    Studies of Bacterial Chemotaxis Using Microfluidics
  2. Making Microchannels
    for Microbial Ecology Studies
    JOVE video article
  3. Interview for NECN @ Museum of Sciences
    SciTech Today (February 7, 2007)