Competition at the front of expanding populations

Summary

I.      Range Expansion: Bacteria growing into new environment   

II.    Drift of boundaries on a sloped surface:                                     

III.  Competition & invasion, Fisher waves (pulled/pushed):               

IV.    Morphologies of competitive growth

V.    Speed of invasion on a growing front                                                             

VI.  Cole-Hopf mapping: growth on an undulating substrate     

VII.  Fitness variations: revisiting synchronous growth & DPRM    

VIII. Specialization: evolution of new traits and universality classes

Harvard University                   CMSA Active Matter Seminar                     April 27, 2023

                    

  Daniel Swartz,        Hyunseok Lee, Kirill Korolev,               Lauren Li             

           

Jordan Horowitz,      Daniel Beller, David Nelson,         Sherry Chu