Elucidating Cell Size Control Mechanisms with Stochastic Hybrid Systems

It is outstanding and intriguing how robustly bacteria can maintain its preferred size despite recurrent rounds of growth and divisions. We model cell size using the stochastic hybrid system framework (SHS), where a cell grows either linearly or exponentially in size over time and random division events are fired at discrete time intervals. We ask for growth and division rates that reproduce the uncorrelated behavior of the added size at...