Human health and physiology relie both on human cells activity and on intestinal microbiota activity, as well as on their interactions. In Mammals, the intestinal epithelium is very densely folded, and the smallest fold is called the intestinal crypt. It is also the simplest unit of the host-microbiota crosstalk. The size of a crypt, which is made of approximately 700 cells, and the detailed knowledge that we have of its functionning are amenable to build a detailed mathematical model. We constructed an individual-based model of epithelial cells interacting with chemicals produced by the microbiota which diffuse in the crypt lumen. This model is formalised as a piecewise determinist Markov process. It accounts for: local interactions due to...