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Substrate geometry affects population dynamics in a bacterial biofilm
Witold Postek, Klaudia Staskiewicz, Elin Lilja +1
Biofilms inhabit a range of environments, such as dental plaques or soil micropores, often characterized by intricate, non-even surfaces. However, the impact of surface irregularit…
Evolutionary adaptation is facilitated by the presence of lethal genotypes
Viktoria Blavatska, Bartlomiej Waclaw
The adaptation rate in theoretical models of biological evolution increases with the mutation rate but only to a point when mutations into lethal states cause extinction. One would…
Resonant noise amplification in a predator-prey model with quasi-discrete generations
Marios Giannakou, Bartlomiej Waclaw
Predator-prey models have been shown to exhibit resonance-like behaviour, in which random fluctuations in the number of organisms (demographic noise) are amplified when their frequ…
Bacterial growth: a statistical physicist's guide
Rosalind J Allen, Bartlomiej Waclaw
Bacterial growth presents many beautiful phenomena that pose new theoretical challenges to statistical physicists, and are also amenable to laboratory experimentation. This review…
Totally asymmetric exclusion process with site-wise dynamic disorder
Bartlomiej Waclaw, Justyna Cholewa-Waclaw, Philip Greulich
We propose an extension of the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (TASEP) in which particles hopping along a lattice can be blocked by obstacles that dynamically attach/de…
Reduced adhesion between cells and substrate confers selective advantage in bacterial colonies
Craig Watson, Paul Hush, Joshua Williams +4
Microbial colonies cultured on agar Petri dishes have become a model system to study biological evolution in populations expanding in space. Processes such as clonal segregation an…