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Complexity Forum: Diana Garcia Lopez (Manchester)
Speaker: Diana Garcia Lopez (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester)
Title: Bacteria and their inhabitants
Abstract:
In the world of bacteria a set of genes is not associated to an individual on a one-to-one basis - genes can be shuffled horizontally via a number of mechanisms. I will talk about two ongoing collaborative projects that aim to look closer at some of these mechanisms from a modelling perspective, mainly using stochastic simulations. The first one deals with host-parasite interactions, where the host is the bacteria and the parasite a virus; the specificity patterns of those interactions influence coevolutionary dynamics and the fate of cooperation among hosts. The second project concerns the opposing two-level selection pressures that act on the replication rate of plasmids and thus give rise to mechanisms that control the number of plasmid copies per bacteria.
Lunch: Group 5