A simple birth-death-migration individual-based model for biofilm development

Nabil Mabrouk (1) , Guillaume Deffuant (1)

1 UR LISC - Laboratoire d'ingénierie pour les systèmes complexes

Bacteria growth, detachment and surface-associated motility are recongnized to play an important role in microbial biofilm formation. In this paper we we investigate using an individual-based model how these processes interplay to yield complex biofilm spatial patterns.

Mots clés: Biofilm; spatial pattern

Domaines: Système multi-agents [cs.MA]

Nabil Mabrouk, Guillaume Deffuant. A simple birth-death-migration individual-based model for biofilm development. 2011. ⟨hal-00605184⟩