Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 5): horizontal gene transfer
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 5): horizontal gene transfer
- Event time: 11:30am
- Event date: 16th May 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
This talk is for everyone who is interested in how bacteria "do it". Although bacteria are asexual organisms and they reproduce by binary fission, they also have a mechanism called conjugation which allows them to exchange portions of genetic code. Including conjugation in population-genetics equations is not difficult, but as I will show, it leads to some interesting effects.
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