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SUMMARY:"Fate and Chance in Microbial Communities"
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Zak Frentz\, Columbia University\nHosted by: Robert M
	arsland\n\nPart of the Biophysics Seminars.\n\nMicrobial ecosystems are inf
	luenced by random processes over many scales\, such as mutagenesis at the m
	olecular scale\, phenotypic switching at the organismal scale\, and fluctua
	tions in the external environment which can affect entire populations.  It 
	is not generally known how strongly these random processes induce randomnes
	s in population dynamics within communities.  To separate deterministic tre
	nds from random fluctuations requires making measurements over many replica
	te systems\, with well controlled environmental and initial conditions.  I'
	ll discuss such measurements we made in the lab\, studying microbial ecosys
	tems with three different experimental setups\, and the potentially surpris
	ing implications for the role of randomness in microbial ecology.
LOCATION:RKC 106C\, 610 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
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