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.