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URL:http://physics.bu.edu/internal/events/show/969
SUMMARY:Biological evolution of bacteria - a physicist's point of view
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Dr. Bartlomiej Waclaw \, University of Edinburgh\nHos
	ted by: Sidney Redner\n\nPart of the Biophysics Seminars.\n\nAbstract: Biol
	ogical evolution is a fascinating subject which can be fully understood onl
	y if it is approached from many different angles. In this talk I want to sh
	ow what physics can offer biological evolution. I will focus on a few aspec
	ts of the evolution of bacteria I have been working on recently. I will beg
	in with a simple\, statistical-physics model of the evolution of antibiotic
	 resistance. This is a timely and important problem because drug-resistant\
	, pathogenic bacteria are becoming a major health hazard. I will show that 
	such resistant bacteria can emerge very quickly in environments with spatia
	lly non-uniform drug concentration such as our bodies during antibiotic tre
	atment. Towards the end of my talk\, I will briefly discuss other projects 
	such as the evolution of metabolic networks in bacteria and biological evol
	ution in bacterial colonies growing on solid substrates.
LOCATION:SCI 328\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
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