Rate My Professor Munehiro Asally

Asally has authored influential publications, including 'Ion channels enable electrical communication in bacterial communities' (Nature, 2015), 'Metabolic co-dependence gives rise to collective oscillations within biofilms' (Nature, 2015), 'Localized cell death focuses mechanical forces during 3D patterning in a biofilm' (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012), 'Electrically induced bacterial membrane-potential dynamics correspond to cellular proliferation capacity' (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019), and 'Swarming bacteria undergo localized dynamic phase transition to form stress-induced biofilms' (eLife, 2021). He has obtained funding from the Leverhulme Trust for bioelectrochemical synapse-like communication in bacteria (2025-2029), the Royal Society for international exchanges (2025-2027), and the National Institute for Health Research for CyteCount, a bioelectrical method for antibiotic susceptibility testing (2024-2026). Asally co-founded Cytecom Ltd to translate bacterial electrophysiology research into technologies for live-cell detection and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. His interdisciplinary work collaborates with fields including active-matter physics, non-linear physics, neuroscience, material science, electrochemistry, and robotic engineering, contributing to biophysics, bioelectricity, synthetic biology, and quantitative biology.