Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 2)
Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 2)
- Event time: 11:30am
- Event date: 25th April 2012
- Speaker: Dr Bartlomiej Waclaw (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
I will continue my series of talks on microbial evolution. I will finish off the case of a single species in a chemostat and move on to the case of two bacterial species competing for food. I will begin with a simple, Lotka-Volterra type of competition and then I will discuss a more realistic case of two species in the chemostat. I will show how this can be used to experimentally determine fitness advantage - a driving force of biological evolution - of one bacterial species over another one with very high precision. Finally (if time permits) I will consider multiple species.
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