Robert M. Macnab Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Researcher in bacterial motility. With Daniel E. Koshland Jr., Macnab studied gradient sensing in chemotaxis, helping explain how a moving bacterium can extract directional information from changes in its environment.[ref]
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 69(9), pp. 2509–2512: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC426976/
Relevant passages: Abstract and experimental responses to concentration steps imposed by the temporal gradient apparatus.