{"id":2079,"date":"2013-11-06T10:50:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T14:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2013-11-06T10:50:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T14:50:41","slug":"modeling-of-microbial-world-comes-of-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/06\/modeling-of-microbial-world-comes-of-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Modeling of Microbial World Comes of Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2080\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Andersen-microbes-Web.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2080\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2080\" alt=\"Andersen-microbes-Web\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Andersen-microbes-Web-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Andersen-microbes-Web-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Andersen-microbes-Web.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exploring the individuality of microbes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The fruits of the labor of the NIMBioS Investigative Workshop on Individual-Based Ecology of Microbes: Observations and Modeling appear today in an opinion paper in the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>. The paper argues that individual-based models are ideal for incorporating the intra-cellular dynamics of synthetic organisms in order to predict their behavior and fitness under various conditions<\/p>\n<p>The paper advocates for what the authors call &#8220;microbial Individual-Based Ecology,&#8221; a combination of individual-based modeling and experimentation, arguing that this approach will lead to greater insights into ecology and evolution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The chance to observe, manipulate and model from first principles, from molecules via individuals to populations, communities, and ecosystems goes far beyond the current basis of ecological and evolutionary theory,&#8221; they write.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/workshops\/WS_IB_microbe_ecology\" target=\"_blank\">Workshop<\/a> met in June 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Citation:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/110\/45\/18027.extract\" target=\"_blank\">Kreft U, et. al. 2013. Mighty small: Observing and modeling individual microbes becomes big science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fruits of the labor of the NIMBioS Investigative Workshop on Individual-Based Ecology of Microbes: Observations and Modeling appear today in an opinion paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper argues that individual-based models are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/06\/modeling-of-microbial-world-comes-of-age\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,54,7],"tags":[34,117,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}