Update to BacFighT6, with presets for easy exploration of complex behaviors:
sites.google.com/view/bacfight6

Try "battle royale" preset where prey (blue) produce capsule, attackers (red) move towards prey and feed on it, defenders (orange) retaliate!

Took a while to eliminate the reds!

The prey (blue) multiply, don't move and produce capsule (purple). The predators (red) move towards prey and attack non-kin. They divide only if they lyse prey. The defenders (orange) move randomly and defend themselves by retaliation (divide if they lyse a cell). Who wins?

To make our research more approachable, I used #Gemini to develop (mostly by #vibecoding) a simulation of #T6SS mediated bacterial interactions. I hope that you'll have as much fun as I have with this and that you'll learn something new!
sites.google.com/view/bacfigh...

Poke bacteria with a sharp needle and they poke back in just a few seconds!
Congratulations to Mitchell (and others) for this analysis of Pseudomonas #T6SS assembly in response to membrane damage!
Collaboration with Rod Lim's lab @biozentrum.unibas.ch

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...