E. coli is indeed the coolest thing on the planet - Carl Zimmer

From EcoliWiki

Jim Hu is in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Texas A&M University.

Here's a paper^[1] another paper^[2]

1. ↑ Inoue T et al. (2007) Genome-wide screening of genes required for swarming motility in Escherichia coli K-12. J Bacteriol 189: 950-7 PubMed EcoliWiki page
2. ↑ Wong JV et al. (2008) A whole more than the sum of its synthetic parts. ACS Chem Biol 3: 27-9 PubMed EcoliWiki page