Amy Buchmann

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  Modeling Cell-Cell Communication and Information Transfer of Social Bacteria
  Amy Buchmann

  Many bacteria are able to communicate information by getting close to each other and signaling through direct contact between cells. This talk will focus on how information is spread between swarming Myxococcus xanthus cells. In particular, I will focus on how the physical cellular properties of individual cells and local behavioral rules influence and optimize information spread throughout the entire cell population. This study is done using both computational cell-based simulations and cell tracking in experiments.