BioE Seminar Series: Micro-Crowdsourcing: How Swarming Bacteria Integrate Signals During Collective Motion
Thursday, March 10, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Presenter
Karine Gibbs, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California-Berkeley
Organisms can achieve greater actions as a group than as an individual. Population movement and territoriality in ants, birds, and wolves are examples of collective behaviors. Bacteria can also perform these behaviors. In this seminar, I will discuss how bacteria use a local sense of identity to assemble and move as a community. Our unconventional organism, Proteus mirabilis, lives in human and animal intestines and the environment. These bacteria cause disease after moving to the bladder. My research asks how an organism's identity, communication, and local environment influence collectivity.
Contact
Michael Humphreys
michael.humphreys@duke.edu