Faculty Advisor
Woods, Carrie and Smith, Adam
Area of Study
Science and Mathematics
Publication Date
Summer 2020
Abstract
The slime mold Physarum polycephalum creates a tubular plasmodial network between food sources when foraging. We expect through the lens of optimal foraging theory for these tubes to connect food sources in the most efficient, cost effective, and also redundant manner to optimize use of energy and reproduction. We constructed an apparatus for taking data from many plasmodia concurrently and algorithms for tracking plasmodial growth.
Award
McCormick
Recommended Citation
Ishii, Rei, "Physarum Polycephalum Network Construction" (2020). Summer Research. 372.
https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/summer_research/372
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Publisher
University of Puget Sound
Physarum_Talk_pdf.pdf (1466 kB)
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