Individual-based Modeling of a \textit{Pseudomonas aeruginosa} Biofilm with Glucose Substrate

Individual-based modeling is a technique for simulating the spatially explicit dynamics of a community of individuals that can each be in a different state. In this investigation we use IBM to simulate growth of a simple biofilm system: \textit{Pseudomonas aeruginosa} with a glucose substrate. The recently published IBM framework for microbial communities, iDynoMiCS, is used together with growth parameters from a recent kinetics study of this system to explore patterns of films over a 24 hour growth period for a two-dimensional and a 12 hour growth period for a three-dimensional model.