Biological evolution in microbial colonies
Biological evolution in microbial colonies
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 25th April 2016
- 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
Biological evolution is not only of theoretical but also of immense practical significance (e.g. the evolution of antibiotic resistance). In the last few years I have been trying to find out how biological evolution depends on physical interactions between organisms and their environment. In this talk I will discuss one such example: the fate (fixation/extinction at the front) of a new mutant bacterium in an expanding microbial colony. I will show some cool experimental images, demonstrate how they can be explained using computer simulations and theory, and list some new predictions which I would like to test experimentally in the future.
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