Bacterial Biofilms as Minimal Models of Living Matter

Event Type: IFIMAColloquium
Title: Bacterial Biofilms as Minimal Models of Living Matter
When: Friday, 7th February, 2025, at 12:00h
Where: Sala de Grados, Building C, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Speaker: Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

Bacteria are usually considered the ultimate single-cell organism. Yet many bacterial species form dense populations with complex spatiotemporal behavior, which can be considered both proto-multicellular organisms and minimal examples of living tissue. In this talk I will review our work with these systems over the last decade, aimed at understanding the mechanisms underlying the dynamics of this type of living matter in both time and space.

Bacterial Biofilms as Minimal Models of Living Matter - Poster