To better understand the environmental factors and ecological processes underlying evolution of irreversible transition from a free-swimming state to an immobile sessile as seen in many aquatic invertebrates, we study adaptive dynamics settling rate hypothetical microorganism onto wall chemostat. The two states, floating or settled, differ their nutrient ingestion, reproduction death rate. We c...

This study introduces a theoretical bioprocess of ideally stirred Chemostat. Chemostat models give an insight to real-life bioprocess systems, in particular biological water treatment. The studied process is very nonlinear due to inhibition of desired reactions by high substrate concentration. The aim of this study is to demonstrate the possibilities of modelling and state detection of this sys...

The Droop equations are a system of three coupled, nonlinear ordinary differential equations describing the growth of a microorganism in a chemostat. The growth rate of the organism is limited by the availability of a single nutrient. In contrast to the better known Monod equations, the nutrient is divided into external and internal cellular pools. Only the internal pool can catalyze growth. Th...

A model that predicts cell growth, lipid accumulation and substrate consumption of oleaginous fungi in chemostat cultures (Meeuwse et al. in Bioproc Biosyst Eng. doi: 10.1007/s00449-011-0545-8 , 2011) was validated using 12 published data sets for chemostat cultures of oleaginous yeasts and one published data set for a poly-hydroxyalkanoate accumulating bacterial species. The model could descri...

MOTIVATION Cells receive a wide variety of environmental signals, which are often processed combinatorially to generate specific genetic responses. Changes in transcript levels, as observed across different environmental conditions, can, to a large extent, be attributed to changes in the activity of transcription factors (TFs). However, in unraveling these transcription regulation networks, the...