MODELING AND COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION OF BIOFILM DEVELOPMENT

RESEARCHERS INVOLVED:

Fernando Govantes and Marta Pulido-Sánchez

COLLABORATORS:

Alejandro Cuetos Menéndez (UPO) and Álvaro González García (UPO)

SUMMARY

In this line we established a close collaboration with the group of Alejandro Cuetos (Universidad Pablo de Olavide) to establish computational models of various aspects of bacterial biofilm development. Our work has allowed us to establish the parameters that govern the internal organization of surface-associated colonies and the role of parameters such as diffusion and growth rates and local nutrient concentrations in these processes.