Boundary-Driven Emergent Spatiotemporal Order in Growing Microbial Colonies
Bhargav R. Karamched, William Ott, Ilya Timofeyev, Razan N. Alnahhas, Matthew R. Bennett, Krešimir Josić
The paper introduces a stochastic spatial Moran model to explain spatiotemporal patterns in growing bacterial colonies, showing how boundary effects and cell-cell interactions drive alignment changes.
bioRxiv · May 22, 2018 · PreprintBiophysics