9 papers
Orientation field model for chiral branching growth of bacterial colonies
Inon Cohen, Eshel Ben-Jacob
We present a new reaction-diffusion model for chiral branching growth of colonies of the bacteria Paenibacillus dendritiformis. In our model the bacteria are represented by a densi…
Conformation changes and folding of proteins mediated by Davidov's soliton
Shay Caspi, Eshel Ben-Jacob
We suggest that Davidov's solitons, propagating through the backbone of a protein, can mediate conformational transition and folding of a protein to its native state. A simple toy…
Modeling branching and chiral colonial patterning of lubricating bacteria
Eshel Ben-Jacob, Inon Cohen, Ido Golding +1
In nature, microorganisms must often cope with hostile environmental conditions. To do so they have developed sophisticated cooperative behavior and intricate communication capabil…
DNA - Nanoelectronics: Realization of a Single Electron Tunneling Transistor and a Quantum Bit Element
Eshel Ben-Jacob, Ziv Hermon, Shay Caspi
Based on the understanding that chemical bonds can act as tunnel junctions in the Coulomb blockade regime, and on the technical ability to coat a DNA strand with metal, we suggest…
Continuous and discrete models of cooperation in complex bacterial colonies
Inon Cohen, Ido Golding, Yonathan Kozlovsky +1
We study the effect of discreteness on various models for patterning in bacterial colonies. In a bacterial colony with branching pattern, there are discrete entities - bacteria - w…
Generic Modeling of Chemotactic Based Self-Wiring of Neural Networks
Ronen Segev, Eshel Ben-Jacob
The proper functioning of the nervous system depends critically on the intricate network of synaptic connections that are generated during the system development. During the networ…