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SUMMARY:Modelling Collective Behaviours of Bacterial Colonies - Matthew Gr
 iffiths
DTSTART:20151127T120000Z
DTEND:20151127T122000Z
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CONTACT:Alex Thom
DESCRIPTION:Producing materials using synthetic biology requires understan
 ding how biophysical and signalling driven patterning processes combine to
  generate structure. The simplicity of modelling and modifying bacteria ma
 ke them an interesting model system to investigate patterning. In order to
  accurately model the biophysical and signalling processes CellModeller\, 
 an open-source\, modular simulation framework\, was used. CellModeller cou
 ld accurately model the biophysical interactions between bacteria\, but la
 cked the ability to effectively simulate diffusive signalling\, so extensi
 ve modifications were needed to allow CellModeller to efficiently and accu
 rately model signalling. This enables the further study of bacterial patte
 rn forming systems which would allow the identification of possible archit
 ectures for generating Turing patterns in bacteria and investigation into 
 how different biophysical effects such as growth and adhesion affect the m
 orphology of these patterns.
LOCATION:Unilever Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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