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SUMMARY:Microbial Interactions in Structured Environments
DTSTART:20260518T143000Z
DTEND:20260518T153000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: David Scheidweiler (EPFL)\n\nMonday 18 May at 4.30 p
 m in R room there will be the seminar of  Dr. David Scheidweiler\, from E
 PFL\n \nTitle: Microbial Interactions in Structured Environments\nFrom so
 ils to hosts\, microorganisms inhabit spatially heterogeneous ecosystems w
 here physical structure\, transport processes\, and chemical gradients sha
 pe microbial life at every scale. Yet most mechanistic studies rely on wel
 l-mixed\, masking the reciprocal influences of environment and ecology. Br
 idging this gap requires to account for the structural and chemical landsc
 apes that microorganisms actually sense. Recent advances in synthetic biol
 ogy\, microfluidics\, and microscopy now allow the study of microbial syst
 ems in controlled environments that better reproduce the structural and ch
 emical complexity of natural ecosystems. These approaches offer new opport
 unities to investigate how physical constraints influence microbial life a
 cross scales. In this seminar\, I will present examples on how the physica
 l environment regulates microbial interactions ranging from collective beh
 aviours within single populations to cooperation within gut microbial comm
 unities. In particular\, I will focus on how flow\, and chemical gradients
  shape bacterial signalling\, metabolic interactions\, and the assembly of
  spatially organized communities. More broadly\, I aim to highlight how in
 corporating microscale heterogeneity into experimental ecology can uncover
  mechanisms that are difficult to capture in well-mixed systems.\n\n \n\n
 \nhttps://indico.dfa.unipd.it/event/1837/
LOCATION:1/3-1 - Sala R (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia - Edificio Ma
 rzolo)
URL:https://indico.dfa.unipd.it/event/1837/
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