Conflict and Cooperation in Cellular Populations

The discussion meeting focuses on three broad areas of research relating to cellular communities, (i) Emergence of phenotypic heterogeneity in isogenic microbial populations of cells (ii) Metabolic division of labour in isogenic as well as multispecies communities, highlighting genome network analysis, metabolic modeling, and chemical/biological approaches that conceptually address such phenomena, (iii) Information transfer between cells, aiming to bring in more mechanistic insight to the above.