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SUMMARY:Cooperation and conflict: from robots to microbial communities
DTSTART:20190212T140000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Sara Mitri\, Département de Microbiologie Fondamentale\
 , Université de Lausanne\nIn its most intuitive form\, natural selection 
 predicts the survival of the fittest - competition and conflict between in
 dividual organisms. But cooperation is widespread in nature\, from microbe
 s to humans. I am interested in understanding the emergence and stability 
 of cooperation and competition\, and when each is predicted to arise. I wi
 ll start by briefly presenting work from my PhD where we used robots to st
 udy the evolution of communication. I will then switch model systems and t
 alk about interactions in single species of bacteria\, then multi-species 
 bacterial communities.\nHere\, I will focus in more detail on our latest r
 esearch using theory and experiments to study a four-species bacterial eco
 system capable of degrading liquid pollutants. We show that positive inter
 actions that resemble cooperation are highly environment-dependent. I will
  then finish with an overview of ongoing projects in my group.
LOCATION:BSP 727 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BSP%20727
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