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Complexity Forum: Rosalind Allen (Edinburgh)
Speaker:Rosalind Allen (School of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Edinburgh)
Title: Modelling the growth of bacterial populations in changing environments
Abstract:
Bacteria are well-known for causing disease but they also play an important and much more positive role in ensuring healthy functioning of human and animal guts, soil fertility and global biogeochemical cycles. Understanding how bacterial populations grow and interact with each other and with their environment is therefore very important. From a theoretical point of view, growing bacterial populations are non-equilibrium systems which can have interesting dynamical properties. I will discuss some recent theoretical work on how random switching can prove a good strategy for bacteria in environments with occasional "catastrophes", and some preliminary results on simple models with interactions between several bacterial populations.
Lunch: group 3