Population dynamics models
Urine production rate is critical in a model for catheter-associated urinary tract infection
F. Bull, S. Tavaddod, N. Bommer, M. Perry, C. A. Brackley and R. J. Allen
BioRxiv 10.1101/2022.10.31.514508 (2022)
Model for quorum-sensing mediated stochastic biofilm formation
P. Sinclair, C. A. Brackley, M. Carballo-Pacheco and R. J. Allen
Physical Review Letters (2022)
Reviewed in Nature Reviews Physics: "Fluctuating into a biofilm" by Zoe Budrikis (2022)
Lineage dynamics in growing biofilms: spatial patterns of standing vs. de novo diversity
E. Young and R. J. Allen
Frontiers in Microbiology 13 915095 (2022)
Tracking the stochastic growth of bacterial populations in microfluidic droplets
Daniel Taylor, Nia Verdon, Peter Lomax, Rosalind J Allen and Simon Titmuss
Physical Biology 19, 026003 (2022)
A computational model for microbial colonisation of an antifouling surface
P. Sinclair, J. Longyear, K. Reynolds, A. A. Finnie, C. A. Brackley, M. Carballo-Pacheco and R. J. Allen
Frontiers in Microbiology 13 920014 (2022)
P. Sinclair, M. Carballo Pacheco* and R. J. Allen*
Physical Biology 16, 046001 (2019)
Resource spectrum engineering by specialist species can shift the specialist-generalist balance
C. G. Mills, R. J. Allen* and R. A. Blythe*
Theoretical Ecology 1-15 (2019)
Bacterial growth: a statistical physicist's guide
R. J. Allen and B. Waclaw
Reports on Progress in Physics 82, 016601 (2019)
Resource spectrum engineering by specialist species can strongly disfavour generalists
C. G. Mills, R. J. Allen and R. A. Blythe (submitted)
Speed of invasion of an expanding population by a horizontally-transmitted trait
- J. Venegas-Ortiz, R. J. Allen* and M. R. Evans*
Genetics 196, 497-507 (2014) (* = equal contribution)
Parasites on parasites: coupled fluctuations in stacked contact processes
- S. J. Court, R. A. Blythe and R. J. Allen
Europhys. Lett. 101, 50001 (2013)
Mutational pathway determines whether drug gradients accelerate evolution of drug-resistant cells
- P. Greulich*, B. Waclaw* and R. J. Allen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 088101 (2012) (*=equal contribution)
Selected as editor's choice and featured in a viewpoint article "Bacteria Evolve to Go Against the Grain" by Oskar Hallatschek, Physics 5, 93 (2012)
Switching and growth for microbial populations in catastrophic responsive environments
- P. Visco, R. J. Allen, S. Majumdar and M. R. Evans,
Biophys. J. 98, 1099-1108 (2010)
Dynamical phase transition in a model for evolution with migration
- B. Waclaw, R. J. Allen and M. R. Evans
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 268101 (2010)
01/11/2022
A warm welcome to our new group assistant Mr Moritz Wiegand!
30/10/2022
Congratulations to Nia Verdon who has submitted her PhD thesis!
15/10/2022
We are advertising an experimental postdoc position on biophysics of microbial aggregation in the context of the human gut microbiome. Please publicise it! Deadline is 22nd November.
01/10/2022
Check out our student Patrick Sinclair's paper in Physical Review Letters presenting a model for stochastic initiation of bacterial biofilms - and a commentary on it in Nature Reviews Physics.
30/09/2022
Congratulations to Patrick Sinclair who has successfully defended his PhD thesis!