Team:HKU-Hong Kong/Modeling

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Model of bacteria growth and death with killing gene endowed

Generally in the open environment, the population density of bacteriaΨ, the nutrition density φi, and the killing signal density ρ can be modeled by the following system of partial differential equation:

Modee1.JPG

With Modee2.JPG

Where the functional dependence of ρ is to be determined case by case.

Special case

In our project, we assumed a lactose analogue in close environment and homogeneous bacteria culture:

Modee3.JPG

This is a system of two asymptotic equations with environment dependent parameters, which will have to be determined experimentally.