Investigating Cell-Material Interactions of Magnetospirillum magneticum as an Approach for Probing Submerged Surface Structural Integrity

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between magnetic field gradients and cell-material interactions using integrated experimental and computational approaches in a multidisciplinary effort to develop an experimental system to create magnetized structures for examining cell interactions to examine the magnetic response of surfaces through a computational analysis approach to probe the response of Magnetospirillum magneticum to localized magnetic fields with cell-material interactions to understand the genetic response of these magnetotactic bacteria to applied magnetic fields.