Periodic Reporting for period 3 - BACTIN (Shaping the bacterial cell wall: the actin-like cytoskeleton, from single molecules to morphogenesis and antimicrobials)

Little is known about the mechanisms determining cell shape, and the larger questions concerning morphogenesis are the same in prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems. How is structural information acquired and maintained? How is cell shape spatially and temporally regulated? In...