Former Notre Dame PhD student, Dr. Yilin Wu, recently contributed to the cover story "Crowd Control" in the July 2013 edition of The Scientist.  Dr. Wu references the paper "Periodic reversal of direction allows Myxobacteria to swarm" co-authored by his advisor, Dr. Mark Alber.  Dr. Wu is a a Assistant Professor of Biophysics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.