Microbial invasions

Project description

This is for biologists or non-biologists interested in how microbes migrate and invade environments that include environmental to oceans, wetlands, skin, groundwater, skin and gut. Laboratory- and mathematical simulation-based projects are available. Our current model systems are agar plates and 2 x 100+ cm tubes. The long tubes have thus far seen success in studying community migration rates, chemotactic gene evolution and emergent group behaviour at the macroscopic scale. For the ambitious student there is the opportunity to create an artificial intestine model system. The specific project is open to the interests and imagination of the student and should be developed in consultation with me.

Co-supervisors

Rob Edwards or Peter Speck

Assumed knowledge

Basic microbiology and some molecular biology (an interest in organism behaviour is optional)

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You must also contact each supervisor directly to discuss both the project details and your suitability to undertake the project.