EESS talk on "Biophysics of Bacterial Biofilms"
Event details
| Date | 18.10.2016 |
| Hour | 12:15 › 13:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Knut Drescher, Bacterial Biofilms, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, DE |
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract: Bacteria frequently occupy densely populated surface-bound communities, known as “biofilms”. It is largely unknown how bacteria organize their collective behavior inside biofilms, and how biofilms behave in natural environments. In this presentation, I will focus on how fluid physics shapes the dynamics of collective behaviors inside biofilms in geometrically complex environments. I will also introduce a new method that allows us to image all individual cells in bacterial biofilms, and show how biofilm communities avoid invasion by members of their own species and other species. This presentation will illustrate the rich interplay of bacterial cooperative behaviors in biofilm communities and physics.
Short biography: Knut Drescher is a professor of biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and at the neighboring Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany. He obtained his undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Oxford in 2007, before starting his PhD in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. After his PhD in 2011, he moved to Princeton University as a postdoc, where he started to work on bacterial collective behaviors. His current research focuses on understanding dynamical processes and transport principles in bacterial biofilms.
Short biography: Knut Drescher is a professor of biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and at the neighboring Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany. He obtained his undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Oxford in 2007, before starting his PhD in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. After his PhD in 2011, he moved to Princeton University as a postdoc, where he started to work on bacterial collective behaviors. His current research focuses on understanding dynamical processes and transport principles in bacterial biofilms.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
- This event is internal
Organizer
- EESS - IIE
Contact
- Prof. Tom Battin, SBER