http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2010/04/09#biofilms <P>Yet Another Inadequate Placeholder. I was once involved in a project to create <a href="cellular-automata.html">cellular automaton</a> models of biofilms, which got me interested in the subject of <em>how</em> things grow on your teeth. That project was lead by <a href="http://www.ing.puc.cl/esp/infacademica/profes/profe__UnidadOrg=CMA.html?pr=gpizarro">Gonzalo Pizarro</a>, who taught me basically everything I know about the subject... <ul>Recommended: <li>Roberto Kolter and E. Peter Greenberg, "The Superficial Life of Microbes", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/441300a"><cite>Nature</cite> <strong>441</strong> (2006): 300--302</a> <li>Gonzalo Pizarro, David Griffeath and Daniel R. Noguera, "Quantitative cellular automaton model for biofilms", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9372(2001)127:9(782)"><cite>Journal of Environmental Engineering</cite> <strong>127</strong> (2001): 782--789</a> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>David Allison, P. Gilbert, H. M. Lappin-Scott and M. Wilson (eds.), <cite>Community Structure and Co-Operation in Biofilms</cite> [<a href="http://cambridge.org/9780521793025">blurb</a>] <li>Andrew Camilli and Bonnie L. Bassler, "Bacterial Small-Molecule Signaling Pathway", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1121357"><cite>Science</cite> <strong>311</strong> (2006): 1113--1116</a> <li>Susse Kirkelund Hansen, Paul B. Rainey, Janus A. J. Haagensen and Soren Molin, "Evolution of species interactions in a biofilm community", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature05514"><cite>Nature</cite> <strong>445</strong> (2007): 533--536</a> <li>Joe J. Harrison, Raymond J. Turner, Lyrium L. R. Marques, and Howard Ceri, "Biofilms", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1511/2005.6.508"><cite>American Scientist</cite> <strong>93</strong> (2005): 508</a> <li>J. O. Indekeu and C. V. Giuraniuc, "Cellular automaton for bacterial towers", <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio.PE/0311035">q-bio.PE/0311035</a> <li>Leah R. Johnson, "Microcolony and Biofilm Formation as a Survival Strategy for Bacteria", <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio.QM/0611087">q-bio.QM/0611087</a> <li>Margaret McFall Ngai et al (eds.), <cite>Influence of Cooperative Bacteria on Animal Host Biology</cite> [<a href="http://cambridge.org/0521834651">Blurb</a>] <li>Susannah Green Tringe, Christian von Mering, Arthur Kobayashi, Asaf A. Salamov, Kevin Chen, Hwai W. Chang, Mircea Podar, Jay M. Short, Eric J. Mathur, John C. Detter, Peer Bork, Philip Hugenholtz, Edward M. Rubin, "Comparative Metagenomics of Microbial Communities", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1107851"><cite>Science</cite> <strong>308</strong> (2005): 554--557</a> </ul>