A SHORT COURSE IN THE MODELING OF CHEMOTAXIS
A SHORT COURSE IN THE MODELING OF CHEMOTAXIS
A SHORT COURSE IN THE MODELING OF CHEMOTAXIS
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Contents<br />
List of Figures iii<br />
1 Introduction 1<br />
1.1 What is Chemotaxis? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />
1.2 The Story of Dicty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3<br />
1.3 Beyond Dicty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />
2 Modeling: The Macroscopic Approach 7<br />
2.1 The first derivation by Keller and Segel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />
2.2 The Keller-Segel Model of Chemotaxis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />
2.3 Traveling bands of chemotactic bacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15<br />
2.4 Some conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />
3 Modeling: The Microscopic Approach 22<br />
3.1 A Local Information Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25<br />
3.2 A Barrier Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29<br />
3.3 A Nearest Neighbor Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />
3.4 A Gradient-Based Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />
3.5 Chapter Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34<br />
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