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]
The gradient-sensing mechanism in bacterial chemotaxis by Robert M. Macnab and Daniel E. Koshland Jr.. Title, author list and reported study
The gradient-sensing mechanism in bacterial chemotaxis by Robert M. Macnab and Daniel E. Koshland Jr. Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-10-31
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.