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We introduce stochastic models of chemotaxis generalizing the deterministic Keller-Segel model. These models include fluctuations which are important in systems with small particle numbers or close to a critical point. Following Dean's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-01 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Chemotaxis is a fundamental guidance mechanism of cells and organisms, responsible for attracting microbes to food, embryonic cells into developing tissues, immune cells to infection sites, animals towards potential mates, and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-26 K. J. Painter

The purpose of this work is the study of \textit{chemotaxis} and how to model it through the equations of Keller-Segel. \textit{Chemotaxis} is a natural process which induces the organisms to direct their movement according to certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Alejandro Fernández-Jiménez

We present a discrete model of chemotaxis whereby cells responding to a chemoattractant are seen as individual agents whose movement is described through a set of rules that result in a biased random walk. In order to take into account…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-27 Federica Bubba , Tommaso Lorenzi , Fiona R Macfarlane

In this paper, we focus on the Keller-Segel chemotaxis system in a random heterogeneous domain. We assume that the corresponding diffusion and chemotaxis coefficients are given by stationary ergodic random fields and apply stochastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Anastasios Matzavinos , Mariya Ptashnyk

The Keller-Segel model is a system of partial differential equations that describes the movement of cells or organisms in response to chemical signals, a phenomenon known as chemotaxis. In this study, we analyze a doubly parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Anne Caroline Bronzi , Crystianne Lilian de Andrade

Chemotaxis systems of Keller--Segel type constitute one of the central mathematical frameworks for understanding aggregation phenomena in biological and ecological systems. Over the past decades, the theory has evolved from the classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Kolade M Owolabi , Eben Mare , Clara O Ijalana , Kolawole S Adegbie

A novel trait-structured Keller-Segel model that explores the dynamics of a migrating cell population guided by chemotaxis in response to an external ligand concentration is derived and analysed. Unlike traditional Keller-Segel models, this…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-27 Viktoria Freingruber , Tommaso Lorenzi , Kevin J. Painter , Mariya Ptashnyk

The main objective of this article is to study the dynamic transition and pattern formation for chemotactic systems modeled by the Keller-Segel equations. We study chemotactic systems with either rich or moderated stimulant supplies. For…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-06-25 Tian Ma , Shouhong Wang

The evolution of a chemotactic system involving a population of cells attracted to self-produced chemicals is described by the Keller-Segel system. In spacial dimension 2, this system demonstrates a balance between the spreading effect of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-07 Gershon Wolansky

Auto-chemotaxis, the directed movement of cells along gradients in chemicals they secrete, is central to the formation of complex spatiotemporal patterns in biological systems. Since the introduction of the Keller--Segel model, numerous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-18 Henrik Weyer , David Muramatsu , Erwin Frey

The Keller--Segel PDE is a model for chemotaxis known to exhibit possible finite-time blow-up. Following a seminal work by Tello and Winkler, a logistic damping term is added in this PDE and local well-posedness of mild solutions is proven.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Thomas Cavallazzi , Alexandre Richard , Milica Tomasevic

A Keller-Segel model describes macroscopic dynamics of bacterial colonies and biological cells. Bacteria secret chemical which attracts other bacteria so that they move towards chemical gradient creating nonlocal attraction between…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-05-18 Pavel M. Lushnikov

Cells encounter a diverse array of physical and chemical signals as they navigate their natural surroundings. However, their response to the simultaneous presence of multiple cues remains elusive. Particularly, the impact of topography…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Valeria Cuentas , Elio Espejo

A generically observed mechanism that drives the self-organization of living systems is interaction via chemical signals among the individual elements -- which may represent cells, bacteria, or even enzymes. Here we propose a novel…

The Keller-Segel model is a system of partial differential equations modelling chemotactic aggregation in cellular systems. This model has blowing up solutions for large enough initial conditions in dimensions d >= 2, but all the solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Carlos Escudero

Chemical signaling is one of the ubiquitous mechanisms by which inter-cellular communication takes place at the microscopic level, particularly via chemotaxis. Such multi-cellular systems are popularly studied using continuum, mean-field…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-11 Ramon Grima

Chemotaxis describes the movement of an organism, such as single or multi-cellular organisms and bacteria, in response to a chemical stimulus. Two widely used models to describe the phenomenon are the celebrated Keller-Segel equation and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Kathrin Hellmuth , Christian Klingenberg , Qin Li , Min Tang

The phenomenon where cells with elongated protrusions, such as neurons, communicate by contacting other cells and arrange themselves appropriately is termed cell sorting through haptotaxis. This phenomenon is described by partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Hiroshi Ishii , Hideki Murakawa , Yoshitaro Tanaka

Chemotaxis phenomena govern the directed movement of micro-organisms in response to chemical stimuli. In this paper, we investigate two Keller--Segel systems of reaction-advection-diffusion equations modeling chemotaxis on thin networks.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Hewan Shemtaga , Wenxian Shen , Selim Sukhtaiev
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