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Bacterial growth: a statistical physicist's guide

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REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS
Volume 82, Issue 1, Pages -

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/aae546

Keywords

statistical physics; bacteria; population dynamics; microbiology

Funding

  1. Royal Society University Research Fellowship
  2. Human Frontier Science Program [RGY0081/2012]
  3. US Army Research Office [64052-MA]
  4. EPSRC [EP/J007404/1]
  5. ERC Consolidator Grant [682237-'EVOSTRUC']
  6. Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellowship
  7. Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Fellowship
  8. BBSRC [BB/R012415/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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Bacterial growth presents many beautiful phenomena that pose new theoretical challenges to statistical physicists, and are also amenable to laboratory experimentation. This review provides some of the essential biological background, discusses recent applications of statistical physics in this field, and highlights the potential for future research.

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