Physics (Internal)

Communication and collective behavior in unicellular organisms

This event is part of the Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Series.

Abstract:

In this talk, I will present ongoing work on communication and
collective behavior in unicellular organisms. In particular, I will
show how we are using concepts from physics such as universality to
make simple, predictive models of complex biological behaviors in
cellular populations of the social amoeba Dictyostellium.