Investigation of Biofilms Using Microfluidic Systems

了解生物膜与其环境之间的相互作用对于生物学、水质、石油管道、食品加工和医学至关重要，因为细菌可以迅速适应环境线索。拟议的研究计划旨在研究细胞动力学的背景下，生物膜使用微流体系统。研究结果将在分子和细胞水平上深入了解细胞信号传导的功能方面，从而将导致新的微流体平台技术。生物膜及其生物过程的研究为生物工程系统的应用和器件的开发提供了新的途径。

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.