  Determining the middle of the bacteria cell and the proper placement of the
septum is essential to the division of the bacterial cell. In E. coli, this
process depends on the proteins MinC, MinD, and MinE. Here, the Lattice
Boltzmann method (LBM) is used to study the dynamics of the oscillations of the
min proteins from pole to pole. This determines the midcell division plane at
the cellular level. The LBM is applied to the set of the deterministic reaction
diffusion equations proposed by Howard et. al. [1] to describe the dynamics of
the Min proteins. The LBM results are in good agreement with those of Howard et
al, and agree qualitatively with the experimental results. Our good results
indicate that the LBM can be an alternative computational tool for simulating
problems dealing with complex biological system which are described by the
reaction-diffusion equations.
