Myxococcus xanthus is a predatory bacteria that exhibits complex social behaviour and has been used as a model organism to study microbial cooperation. In favourable conditions, M. xanthus form coordinated swarms that hunt on other bacteria (like E. coli) and invade their colonies. The goal of this internship is to develop an agent-based model of M. xanthus able to explain the collective mechanism of prey invasion. The intern will conduct predation experiments, analyse bacteria trajectories and develop the model under the guidance of the supervisors (possibly using data-driven, AI-based techniques).