Modelling and simulation of biological systems
Funded by a
Marie-Curie reintegration grant
Swarming
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Amit Rabani, Gil Ariel and Avraham Be'er, Collective
motion of spherical bacteria, PLoS ONE 8, e83760 [pdf] [SI].
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Gil Ariel, Adi Shklarsh, Oren Kalisman, Colin Ingham and Eshel
Ben-Jacob, From organized internal traffic to collective navigation of
bacterial swarms, New J. Phys. 15, 125019 (2013). [pdf] [SI]
[movies]
· Adi Shklarsh, Gil Ariel, Elad Schneidman and Eshel Ben-Jacob, Smart Swarms of Bacteria-Inspired Agents with Performance Adaptable Interactions, PLOS Comput. Biol. 7: 1002177 (2011) [manuscript - pdf]
Dynamics of bacterial colonies
An example experiment in which two seeds of bacterial colonies grow side by side for 10 days. The two colonies sense each other and growth in the direction of the neighbouring colony stops. The dynamics of the colony is modelled using a system of free-boundary reaction-diffusion equations. The system is solved numerically using level-set methods.
Movie: two bacterial colonies growing in a 9cm Perti dish.
· Avraham Be'er, Gil Ariel, Oren Kalisman, Yael Helman, Alexandra Sirota-Madim H.P. Zhang, E.-L. Florin, Shelly M. Payne, Eshel Ben-Jacob and Harry L. Swinney, Lethal protein produced in response to competition between sibling bacterial colonies, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 107: 6258-6263 (2010) [manuscript - pdf] [supporting material - pdf]
Dynamics of locust swarms
This is a new project that involves
the dynamics of locust swarms. We analyse the multiscale nature of a swarm of
locusts in a circular arena and suggest mathematical models for their dynamics.
Tracking data for PLoS
ONE 2014 paper