Evolution and mechanisms of interactions in biofilm communities

本项目旨在研究混合物种细菌生物膜群落的长期实验进化。这个项目希望了解群落进化的遗传和生理基础。这个项目的预期结果将是对合成社区如何演变的理解。这将大大有利于与抗生素设计、生物技术、生物修复和合成生物学等领域相关的合成群落的使用，在这些领域，进化可能被抑制或利用。

This project aims to study the long-term experimental evolution of a mixed species bacterial biofilm community. This project expects to gain understanding of the genetic and physiological basis of community evolution. Expected outcomes of this project will be an understanding of how synthetic communities evolve. This will significantly benefit the use of synthetic communities relevant to fields such as antibiotic design, biotechnology, bioremediation, and synthetic biology where evolution can be inhibited or exploited, respectively.