• HOME
  • NEWS
  • EXPLORE
    • CAREER
      • Companies
      • Jobs
    • EVENTS
    • iGEM
      • News
      • Team
    • PHOTOS
    • VIDEO
    • WIKI
  • BLOG
  • COMMUNITY
    • FACEBOOK
    • INSTAGRAM
    • TWITTER
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
BIOENGINEER.ORG
No Result
View All Result
  • Login
  • HOME
  • NEWS
  • EXPLORE
    • CAREER
      • Companies
      • Jobs
        • Lecturer
        • PhD Studentship
        • Postdoc
        • Research Assistant
    • EVENTS
    • iGEM
      • News
      • Team
    • PHOTOS
    • VIDEO
    • WIKI
  • BLOG
  • COMMUNITY
    • FACEBOOK
    • INSTAGRAM
    • TWITTER
  • HOME
  • NEWS
  • EXPLORE
    • CAREER
      • Companies
      • Jobs
        • Lecturer
        • PhD Studentship
        • Postdoc
        • Research Assistant
    • EVENTS
    • iGEM
      • News
      • Team
    • PHOTOS
    • VIDEO
    • WIKI
  • BLOG
  • COMMUNITY
    • FACEBOOK
    • INSTAGRAM
    • TWITTER
No Result
View All Result
Bioengineer.org
No Result
View All Result
Home NEWS Science News Biology

Chatterboxes: FSU researcher develops new model that shows how bacteria communicate

Bioengineer by Bioengineer
January 25, 2023
in Biology
Reading Time: 3 mins read
0
Karamched
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedinShare on RedditShare on Telegram

When bacteria interact, they give off cellular signals that can trigger a response in their neighbors, causing them to behave in different ways or produce different substances. For example, they can communicate to coordinate movement away from danger or to emit light to ward off predators.

Karamched

Credit: Florida State University

When bacteria interact, they give off cellular signals that can trigger a response in their neighbors, causing them to behave in different ways or produce different substances. For example, they can communicate to coordinate movement away from danger or to emit light to ward off predators.

In new research published by Biophysical Reports, researchers from Florida State University and Cleveland State University lay out a mathematical model that explains how bacteria communicate within a larger ecosystem. By understanding how this process works, researchers can predict what actions might elicit certain environmental responses from a bacterial community.

“Typically, models of bacteria in synthetic environments have involved many, many equations describing many, many things, but they weren’t really flexible for different applications,” said co-author Bhargav Karamched, an assistant professor in FSU’s Department of Mathematics and the Institute of Molecular Biophysics. “What my collaborators and I have done is to create a flexible mathematical model that can be applied to a variety of experimental settings.”

Models like the one developed by Karamched’s team help to predict how those bacterial communities coordinate activity, allowing designers to adjust the parameters of a community, such as the population sizes of different types of bacteria or feedback loops, and tailor them for different purposes. For example, in a population of two kinds of bacteria, having more of one kind of bacteria can be dangerous for a host organism while having more of the other can be beneficial. Getting the right mix is crucial, and models help researchers design and analyze the bacterial communities they create.

“What’s lacking in synthetic biology right now are these general, flexible models that are ready off-the-shelf,” Karamched said. “This may not capture all the details in a bacteria community, but it still captures the general framework of what’s going on. Scientists and engineers can use that to compare against their experimental work and move forward.”

The researchers also tested their model against previously published research that examined how bacteria communicate across large spatial gaps. The previous research found that the bacteria only needed a positive feedback loop in order to signal to each other. But Karamched and his collaborators’ model predicts that the rate of production of signaling molecules must also be within a specific range for coordination to occur.

“This model lays the groundwork for a wide range of future experiments testing different strain interactions and geometries,” said co-author Shawn Ryan, an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the co-director of the Center for Applied Data Analysis and Modeling at Cleveland State University.

Ryan Godin, a former Cleveland State University student and current Iowa State University doctoral student in chemical engineering, was the lead author on this paper.



Journal

Biophysical Reports

DOI

10.1016/j.bpr.2022.100085

Article Title

The space between us: Modeling spatial heterogeneity in synthetic microbial consortia dynamics

Article Publication Date

2-Dec-2022

COI Statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

Share12Tweet8Share2ShareShareShare2

Related Posts

Revolutionary Algorithm Enhances Disease Classification Using Omics

Revolutionary Algorithm Enhances Disease Classification Using Omics

October 1, 2025
Carnegie Mellon Wins ARPA-H Grant to Develop At-Home Technology for Early Cancer Detection

Carnegie Mellon Wins ARPA-H Grant to Develop At-Home Technology for Early Cancer Detection

October 1, 2025

Uncovering How Pathogens Assemble Protein Machinery to Thrive in the Gut

October 1, 2025

The Science Behind Women’s Longevity: Why They Outlive Men

October 1, 2025

POPULAR NEWS

  • New Study Reveals the Science Behind Exercise and Weight Loss

    New Study Reveals the Science Behind Exercise and Weight Loss

    90 shares
    Share 36 Tweet 23
  • Physicists Develop Visible Time Crystal for the First Time

    74 shares
    Share 30 Tweet 19
  • How Donor Human Milk Storage Impacts Gut Health in Preemies

    63 shares
    Share 25 Tweet 16
  • New Study Indicates Children’s Risk of Long COVID Could Double Following a Second Infection – The Lancet Infectious Diseases

    63 shares
    Share 25 Tweet 16

About

We bring you the latest biotechnology news from best research centers and universities around the world. Check our website.

Follow us

Recent News

Effective Strategies for Preventing Chainsaw-Related Injuries

Endocervical Curettage Detects CIN2+ in Postmenopausal Women

Can AI Influence You to Adopt Veganism—or Engage in Self-Harm?

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 60 other subscribers
  • Contact Us

Bioengineer.org © Copyright 2023 All Rights Reserved.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • Homepages
    • Home Page 1
    • Home Page 2
  • News
  • National
  • Business
  • Health
  • Lifestyle
  • Science

Bioengineer.org © Copyright 2023 All Rights Reserved.