News

Welcome Bajka!

April 2025
Bajka joined the group to work on her Bachelor thesis under the supervision of Saba and Katja.

Welcome Yundon!

June 2024
Yundon started as the group's second PhD student in Leipzig.

Lab in Leipzig is growing! Welcome Saba and Silke!

May 2024
A warm welcome to Saba and Silke who just have started their work as PhD student and lab assistant, respectively.

We have moved! Welcome Birgit and Christian!

October 2023
Happy to announce that the Taute lab, initially launched at the Rowland Institute at Harvard in 2016, now moved to the Peter Debye Institute for Soft Matter Physics at the University of Leipzig, Germany.

We welcome Birgit and Christian who will help jump starting the lab here in Leipzig as lab manager and postdoc, respectively.

New PNAS paper! 

August 2023
We showed that flagellar architectures differ in their ability to facilitate navigation in complex environments in our new PNAS paper!

Congrats Marianne! 

May 2022
Former postdoc Marianne Grognot started as Assistant Professor at RWTH Aachen: Check out the Grognot Lab!

New PNAS paper! 

March 2022
We are exploring how bacteria respond to eukaryotic hormones in our recent work with the Jung and Sieber labs in PNAS!

New AEM paper! 

September 2021
The pathogen Vibrio cholerae uses swimming motility to cause cholerae disease. We show how it swims in materials that mimic naturally relevant environments in  Applied & Environmental Microbiology.

New paper! 

June 2021
Our report of a new multiscale 3D chemotaxis assay is out in Communications Biology! 

New review paper! 

April 2021
Our review on flagellar gymnastics has just been published in Current Opinion in Microbiology.

New Nature paper! 

February 2020
Our work showing how a trade-off between bacterial motility and growth leads to coexistence of bacterial species has been published in Nature! 

Erçağ Pinçe wins best poster award  

June 2019
Congratulations to postdoc Erçağ Pinçe for winning the best poster award at the Harvard FAS Postdoc Research Symposium! 

Marianne Grognot wins best talk award  

June 2019
Congratulations to postdoc Marianne Grognot for winning the 1st prize for oral presentation at the 3rd annual symposium on Careers and Collaboration in Science (B-SoCCS 2019).

Welcome, Anisha!

April 2019 
Harvard undergrad Anisha Mittal will be studying the motility of bacterial pathogens under the supervision of postdoc Marianne Grognot.

Rowland Foundation Award

December 2018
Thank you to the Rowland Foundation for supporting our work! Postdoc Marianne Grognot (left) will mentor Harvard undergrad Anisha Mittal (right) working on determining motility strategies of pathogens.

Welcome, Erçaǧ!

November 2018
Postdoc Erçağ Pinçe joined the lab in November 2018, after completing a project at FOM Institute AMOLF. 

Marianne Grognot wins best poster award  

January 2018
Congratulations to postdoc Marianne Grognot who won the postdoc poster prize at the 2018 Gordon Research Conference on Signal Transduction in Microorganisms!