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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)
 
 
Growth-dependent drug susceptibility can prevent or enhance spatial expansion of a bacterial population
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)
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