Investigation of Biofilms Using Microfluidic Systems

了解生物膜与其环境之间的相互作用对生物学、水质、石油管道、食品加工和医学都是基本的，因为细菌可以迅速适应环境提示。拟议的研究计划旨在利用微流控系统在生物膜的背景下研究细胞动力学。这项研究的结果将在分子和细胞水平上深入了解细胞信号的功能方面，从而将导致新型微流控平台技术的出现。生物膜和生物过程的研究为开发生物工程系统中的应用和装置提供了新的途径。

Understanding the interaction between the biofilms and their environment is fundamental to biology, water quality, oil pipelining, food processing, and medicine, because bacteria can rapidly adapt to environmental cues. The proposed research program aims to study cellular dynamics in the context of biofilms using microfluidic systems. The results of the research will create insights into the functional aspects of cellular signalling at the molecular and cellular level, and thereby will lead to novel microfluidic platform technologies. The investigation of biofilms and the biological processes provides new approaches for developing applications and devices in biological engineering systems.