Speaker:Thomas Griffin

Chemostat, Chemical Reaction Networks, and Deterministic Surface CRNs  

Chemostat, short for “chemical environment station,” is a powerful tool used in microbiology and bio-process engineering to study the interactions between microbial populations and their environment. In the well-studied classical chemostat ODE model, competitive exclusion occurs with the strongest species surviving, in this talk we will examine a novel change in the classical chemostat model and outline the dynamics of the new system, as well as explore the impact of changing the human controlled parameters of the model to influence the stability of species inside the system. We also will discuss the novel idea of deterministic surface chemical reaction networks, a model that incorporates all the computing capabilities of the deterministic CRN and the ability to include spatial separation of molecules. To showcase this, we will look at various applications of this new model and discuss how the chemostat could be a potential method of implementation in the laboratory setting.  

Committee: James Lathrop (co-major professor), Rana Parsahd (co-major professor), Claus Kadelka, Ruoyu Wu, and Jack Lutz

Join on Zoom: https://iastate.zoom.us/j/96061973353?pwd=by9sZkFOdFFXd1FudHhlS0VwanpWQ…;