Abstract The Center for Biofilm Engineering was the first center of excellence focused on
biofilms and was originally funded through the Engineering Research Center Program from …

The ASM 6th Conference on Biofilms was held in Miami, Florida, 29 September to 4 October,
2012. The conference provided an opportunity for the exchange of new findings and ideas …

The 7th ASM Conference on Biofilms was held in Chicago, Illinois, from 24 to 29 October
2015. The conference provided an international forum for biofilm researchers across …

Biofilms have a major impact on human health, the environment, and industry. Thus, a better
understanding of the mechanisms controlling biofilm formation and activity has the promise …

A biofilm is formed by single or multiple microbial species on a natural or artificial surface,
woven around the self-produced matrix of extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs) …

The Fundamentals of Biofilm Engineering. This textbook provides a strong foundation in
biofilm engineering for graduate students from chemistry, microbiology, and engineering …

This special edition of Water Science and Technology is dedicated to publishing selected
papers presented at the IWA conference on Biofilm Structure and Activity, Las Vegas …

In May 2019, 29 scientists with expertise in various subdisciplines of biofilm research got
together in Leavenworth (WA, USA) at an event designated as the '2019 Biofilm Bash'. The …

Over the review period, a significant amount of literature has been published documenting
the impact of biofilms on engineered and biomedical systems. Reactor systems and …

For over a century microbiologists have studied liquid cultures of bacteria. In fact, a common
criterion for choosing a microorganism to study has been its ability to grow in a suspended …