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Abstract: The swimming motion of micro-organisms has recently seen an increasing interest from physicists, utilizing the recent progresses in microscopy and the development of microfluidics to study this interdisciplinary subject. In these three short seminars, we will present some experimental findings on the swimming behaviors of bacteria and micro-algae. - A new quantification method for bacterial chemotaxis using the 3 channels microfluidic chip. - Long-term dynamical clustering of passive particles induced by swimming bacteria. - Short-term memory effects in the phototactic behaviour of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.