Materials Research Society Spring Meeting Symposium KK: Microbial Life on Surfaces: Biofilm-Material Interactions: Life at Interfaces. Held in San Francisco, California on 25-27 April 2011 (Abstracts)
Abstract
Bacterial communities living on surfaces are called biofilms. Microbial life on a surface has specific consequences for both the microbes (in terms of their physiology, metabolism, and gene expression), and for the substrate, as evidenced by the fouling and degradation of a wide array of materials from metals, to plastics, to medical implants. Understanding the molecular-scale and macroscale interactions between bacteria and surfaces is thus very important to a wide array of applications, from environmental ones such as subsurface soil remediation, microbial dissolution of minerals, microbial uptake of trace metals, drinking water quality, fate of pathogens in the subsurface, to biomedical applications such as cell-to-cell transfer of genetic material, and bacterial infections of implanted devices. This symposium will focus on understanding the interactions between bacteria and surfaces at the molecular and macroscale levels. In order to present a comprehensive set of symposium topics, both fundamental topics on bacterial adhesion measurements and modeling, as well as topics that focus on biofilm-materials interactions from the perspective of the industrially relevant, engineered material applications of bacterial adhesion, will be covered. This symposium will highlight research that brings new materials characterization tools to the discipline, both experimental and computational.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 24, 2012
- Accession Number
- ADA562010
Entities
People
- Wendy Goodson
Organizations
- Materials Research Society