When:
Thursday, March 30, 2017
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CT
Where: Technological Institute, F160, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Tina Hoff
(847) 491-3645
Group: Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Category: Academic
Title: Understanding bacterial growth: from test tubes to the gut
Speaker: Terence Hwa, University of California, San Diego
Abstract: Cellular behaviors are strongly dependent on their environment. In this talk, I will describe two studies. For E. coli in laboratory environments subjected to various nutrient limitations, growth of the culture is governed by a number of simple laws which accurately predicts cellular responses to environmental changes. For the major bacterial species in the human gut, a hydrodynamic model capturing the physiological state of the host correctly predicts primary correlates of bacterial composition under various perturbations.
Host: Adilson Motter
Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Complex Systems