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Henry Mattingly, Ph.D.

Associate Research Scientist, Center for Computational Biology

Bio

Henry Mattingly joined the Flatiron Institute in August 2022 as an associate research scientist. Before that, Henry was a postdoctoral associate in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale. Henry received his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Princeton. He studies how fluctuations and information processing affect organism sensing, behavior and survival.

Publications

Coarse-graining bacterial diffusion in disordered media to surface states

Biophysics and Computational Biology, March 21, 2025

H. Mattingly

Nongenetic adaptation by collective migration

Systems Biology, February 19, 2025

Lam Vo, et al.

E. coli do not count single molecules

arXiv, July 9, 2024

H. Mattingly, et al.

Direct measurement of dynamic attractant gradients reveals breakdown of the Patlak–Keller–Segel chemotaxis model

PNAS, January 9, 2024

Trung V. Phan, et al.

Featuring Henry Mattingly

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A Tug-of-War Explains a Decades-Old Question About How Bacteria Swim

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New Model Predicts How Bacteria Navigate Obstacles To Spread

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