Levy walks in swarming bacteria
Seminar
QUEST Center event
No
Speaker
Gil Ariel, Department of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University
Date
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Levy walks in swarming bacteria
Bacterial swarming is a collective mode of motion in which cells migrate rapidly over surfaces. Swarming is typically characterized by densely packed groups moving in coherent patterns of whirls and flows. Recent experiments showed that within such dense swarms, bacteria are performing super-diffusion that is consistent with a Levy walk. The talk will explain this observation and present a simple model suggesting that chaos and Levy walking are a consequence of group dynamics. The model explains how cells can fine-tune the geometric properties of their trajectories.
בנין פיסיקה 202 חדר 301
Department of Physics
physics.dept@mail.biu.ac.il
Asia/Jerusalem
public
Place
בנין פיסיקה 202 חדר 301
Abstract
Bacterial swarming is a collective mode of motion in which cells migrate rapidly over surfaces. Swarming is typically characterized by densely packed groups moving in coherent patterns of whirls and flows. Recent experiments showed that within such dense swarms, bacteria are performing super-diffusion that is consistent with a Levy walk. The talk will explain this observation and present a simple model suggesting that chaos and Levy walking are a consequence of group dynamics. The model explains how cells can fine-tune the geometric properties of their trajectories.
Last Updated Date : 04/10/2017
