{"id":156,"date":"2017-07-21T13:35:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T13:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interspecifics.cc\/comunicacionesespeculativas\/?p=156"},"modified":"2017-07-21T14:39:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T14:39:17","slug":"spatial-ecology-of-microbes-sir-theory-and-xy-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interspecifics.cc\/comunicacionesespeculativas\/2017\/07\/21\/spatial-ecology-of-microbes-sir-theory-and-xy-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"Spatial Ecology of Microbes, SIR theory, and XY-motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-159 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/interspecifics.cc\/comunicacionesespeculativas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7888-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/interspecifics.cc\/comunicacionesespeculativas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7888-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/interspecifics.cc\/comunicacionesespeculativas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7888-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/interspecifics.cc\/comunicacionesespeculativas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7888-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/interspecifics.cc\/comunicacionesespeculativas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7888-754x566.jpg 754w, https:\/\/interspecifics.cc\/comunicacionesespeculativas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7888.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span style=\"line-height: inherit;\">An important aspect of bacteria, and of all life cycles for that matter, which is imp<\/span><span style=\"line-height: inherit;\">ortant to consider is the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spatial_ecology\">spatial ecology<\/a> of microbes. In particular the induced <\/span><a style=\"line-height: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metapopulation\">meta-population dynamics<\/a><span style=\"line-height: inherit;\">. Population, like individuals, are born out of a colonization event and they die due to local extinction. \u00a0At a larger scale, due to dispersal, local populations give rise to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: inherit;\">new populations at alternative locations. \u00a0The reason this process is important is because when we start by inoculating a plate with fresh (&#8220;<\/span><strong style=\"line-height: inherit;\">Susceptible&#8221; state<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: inherit;\">) habitat (such as a petri dish with agar and growth media) a population is formed (&#8220;<\/span><strong style=\"line-height: inherit;\">Infected&#8221; state<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: inherit;\">). After a while living there, bacterial cells will consume all the local resources and pr<\/span><span style=\"line-height: inherit;\">oduce enough waste to render the local habitat inhabitable (&#8220;<\/span><strong style=\"line-height: inherit;\">Recovered&#8221; state<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: inherit;\">). \u00a0This spatial ecology is similar to the epidemiological dynamics characterized by <\/span><a style=\"line-height: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Compartmental_models_in_epidemiology\">SIR theory<\/a><span style=\"line-height: inherit;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is the reason, propagule cells disperse to new location. It is this dispersal process which give rise to the intricate patterns we observe. \u00a0Currently, the microscope state is fixed in space and therefore we are not capable to follow the dynamics in space. It is for this reason, that we are also working in implementing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corexy.com\/\">an open XY stage<\/a> so the machine has the capacity of following the spatial dynamics of the meta-population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important aspect of bacteria, and of all life cycles for that matter, which is important to consider is the spatial ecology of microbes. In particular the induced meta-population dynamics.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interspecifics.cc\/comunicacionesespeculativas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interspecifics.cc\/comunicacionesespeculativas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interspecifics.cc\/comunicacionesespeculativas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interspecifics.cc\/comunicacionesespeculativas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interspecifics.cc\/comunicacionesespeculativas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/interspecifics.cc\/comunicacionesespeculativas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/interspecifics.cc\/comunicacionesespeculativas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interspecifics.cc\/comunicacionesespeculativas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interspecifics.cc\/comunicacionesespeculativas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interspecifics.cc\/comunicacionesespeculativas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interspecifics.cc\/comunicacionesespeculativas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}