Delay Device

Figure 1: Negative Feedforward model

Figure 2: Riboregulator model

Mathematical Modeling

The Negative Feedforward model shown above can be expressed with the following set of ODEs (ordinary differential equations):


The Riboregulator model shown above can be expressed with the following set of ODEs:


The symbols in this system of equations are found in the table below:


We would like to give credit to the Bologna '08 team and UNIPV-Pavia '08 team, who's project was useful in determining our own equations.

Conjugation

Using the paper "[http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118837812/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 A model for bacterial conjugal gene transfer on solid surfaces]", we established the assumptions and parameteres that would be needed for the .