Modeling Microbial Community Metabolism
Professor Isaac Klapper
Department of Mathematics
Temple Unviersity
ABSTRACT
Outside of laboratories, microbial communities (biofilms and other types)
often exist in relatively stable environments where, on average, resource quality and quantity
are predictable. In these conditions, these communities are able to organize
into tuned chemical factories, efficiently turning resources into biomass and
waste byproducts. To do so, physical, chemical, and biological constraints
must be accomodated. In this seminar, techniques to model this
organization will be discussed. In particular, the importance of coupling microscale
metabolic information to community scale transport processes will be emphasized.
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