Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 8): spatial models of growing bacterial colonies
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 8): spatial models of growing bacterial colonies
- Event time: 11:30am
- Event date: 28th November 2012
- Speaker: Bartlomiej Waclaw (Formerly 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
In this talk I will discuss some basic (experimental) facts about bacteria growing in spatially organized (not well-mixed) populations. I will present basic equations which are often used to model such populations (such as the Fisher-Kolmogorov equation), show that they have some important deficiencies, and show how to construct more realistic models.
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