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SUMMARY:Tutorial: Spatial and ODE modelling of communities - Babak Momeni 
 (Boston College)
DTSTART:20221010T090000Z
DTEND:20221010T103000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Interest in modeling microbial communities has been growing\, 
 because the resulting predictive power can impact several applications: fr
 om alternative treatments of infections to sustainable removal of environm
 ental toxins. There are several ways to model microbial interactions and c
 ommunity traits. The two broad categories of modeling are agent-based mode
 ls that follow the interactions among individuals versus population-level 
 models that use the abundance of each population as the main factor that i
 nfluences other populations. In both of these categories of modeling\, the
  use of differential equations offers a path to capture major processes of
  interest. These processes could include interactions among microbes throu
 gh diffusible metabolites or dispersal of species in the environment. Here
 \, we first survey some of the models that employ ordinary and partial dif
 ferential equations. We then focus on two particular examples: (1) an agen
 t-based model of spatial self-organization and (2) a population-level mode
  of spatial coexistence to elaborate some of the implementation details.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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