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SUMMARY:EESS talk on "Biophysics of Bacterial Biofilms"
DTSTART:20161018T121500
DTEND:20161018T131500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Knut Drescher\, Bacterial Biofilms\, Max Planck Institut
 e for Terrestrial Microbiology\, Marburg\, DE\nAbstract: Bacteria frequent
 ly occupy densely populated surface-bound communities\, known as “biofil
 ms”. It is largely unknown how bacteria organize their collective behavi
 or inside biofilms\, and how biofilms behave in natural environments. In t
 his presentation\, I will focus on how fluid physics shapes the dynamics o
 f collective behaviors inside biofilms in geometrically complex environmen
 ts. I will also introduce a new method that allows us to image all individ
 ual cells in bacterial biofilms\, and show how biofilm communities avoid i
 nvasion by members of their own species and other species. This presentati
 on will illustrate the rich interplay of bacterial cooperative behaviors i
 n biofilm communities and physics.\n\nShort biography: Knut Drescher is a 
 professor of biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microb
 iology and at the neighboring Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany. He
  obtained his undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Oxfor
 d in 2007\, before starting his PhD in the Department of Applied Mathemati
 cs and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. After his PhD i
 n 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 b
 iofilms.
LOCATION:GR A3 31 http://plan.epfl.ch/?room=GR%20A3%2031
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