R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminars |
Events During the Week of February 14th through February 21st, 2016
Monday, February 15th, 2016
- The Emergent Collective Behavior of Bacteria Under Stress
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Place: 1003 Engineering Centers Building (Tong Auditorium)
- Speaker: Robert Austin, Princeton
- Abstract: Outside the ivied halls of the academy, Darwinian evolution and competition puts an enormous selection pressure on organisms. Although physicists tend to think of bacteria as being rather simple entities living rather solitary and brief lives, our experience has been that under high stress complex environments and at high concentrations they initiate complex, cryptic signaling and information exchange whose purposes we at this point can only guess at. I’ll present experiments showing the complexity of the signals that bacteria exchange under stress, and try to provide some sort of a model to understand the purposes of this emergent collective behavior.
- Host: Susan Coppersmith
Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
- No events scheduled
Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
- No events scheduled
Thursday, February 18th, 2016
- No events scheduled
Friday, February 19th, 2016
- No events scheduled