The
application of mathematical concepts can provide valuable contributions
to the understanding of microbial life and to the control of
biotechnological processes. With the development of high throughput
analytical technologies it has become necessary to apply mathematical
routines for an effective analysis of the vast amounts of data that are
generated by these methods. However, in some cases the important state
variables of an experimental system may be inaccessible to analytical
techniques and here mathematical simulations are a valuable approach.
Furthermore, mathematical modelling can facilitate our understanding of
the behaviour of biochemical reaction networks, or the highly
coordinated response of single cell populations to changing
environmental conditions. In the analysis of these latter systems,
application of mathematical simulation is an extremely powerful tool to
explain, how the complex behaviour on the population scale can be
controlled by rather simple interaction rules between individual cells
or reactions. This session covers the application of mathematical
concepts to environmental and technical systems. It is dedicated to
illustrating the diversity of modelling approaches, and their
contribution to our understanding of microbial life.
Chairman
: Dr H.M. Davey (Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural
Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales)
