The Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE) is an interdisciplinary research, education, and technology transfer institution located on the central campus...
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Biomineralization – Process by which living organisms produce minerals Center for Biofilm Engineering – interdisciplinary research, education, and technology transfer...
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Biofilm formation occurs when free floating microorganisms attach themselves to a surface. Although there are some beneficial uses of biofilms, they are...
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Engineering Research Centers (ERC) are university-led institutions developed through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Engineering...
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discontinued in the 2000s NASA facilities Intel Research Lablets Engineering Research Centers Networking and Information Technology Research and Development...
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Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty (category Recipients of the Padma Shri in science & engineering)
Biotechnology Institute, the Montana State University Center for Biofilm Engineering, the Center for Microbial Ecology at the Michigan State University,...
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Bruce Rittmann (category McKelvey School of Engineering alumni)
elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for pioneering the development of biofilm fundamentals and contributing to their widespread...
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Phage therapy (section Treatment of biofilm infections)
methods for the fast identification of the therapeutic phage(s), the establishment of efficient phage therapy strategies to tackle infectious biofilms, the...
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J. William Costerton (category Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Montana State University's Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE). In 2004 he became the director of the Center for Biofilms at the College of Dentistry...
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Streptococcus pyogenes (section Biofilm formation)
CP028841. Biofilms are a way for S. pyogenes, as well as other bacterial cells, to communicate with each other. In the biofilm gene expression for multiple...
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of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies Anne Camper, Center for Biofilm Engineering John “Jack” Horner, Department of Paleontology and Curator of...
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Nanyang Technological University (redirect from NTU School of Computer Engineering)
from the emerging technologies in Engineering and Natural Sciences to understand, harness and control microbial biofilm communities. The union of these...
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comprising over 4,000 organisms are responsible for biofouling. Biofouling is divided into microfouling—biofilm formation and bacterial adhesion—and macrofouling—attachment...
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Biofilter (category Environmental engineering)
into a thin biofilm on the surface of the packing material. Microorganisms, including bacteria and fungi are immobilized in the biofilm and degrade the...
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Bioreactor (category Biological engineering)
known as moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) packed bed fibrous bed membrane Bioreactor design is a relatively complex engineering task, which is studied...
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Candida albicans (section Biofilm development)
Candidiasis is, for example, often observed in HIV-infected patients. C. albicans is the most common fungal species isolated from biofilms either formed...
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Trickling filter (category Environmental engineering)
other wastewater flows downward and causes a layer of microbial slime (biofilm) to grow, covering the bed of media. Aerobic conditions are maintained...
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Microbial fuel cell (section Phototrophic biofilm)
(uncoated graphite electrodes). Higher power production was observed with a biofilm-covered graphite anode. Fuel cell emissions are well under regulatory limits...
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Acetobacter aceti (section Biofilm formation)
Alphaproteobacteria. Its bacterial motility plays an important role in the formation of biofilms, intricate communities where A. aceti cells aggregate and collaborate,...
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Donald E. Ingber (category Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering)
LLC, which develops special coatings for medical devices to eliminate the formation of blood clots and biofilms on materials. Ingber grew up in East Meadow...
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Rotating biological contactor (category Environmental engineering)
or 5 modules in series to obtain nitrification of waste water. As the biofilm biomass changes from Carbon metabolizing to nitrifying, a visual colour...
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Menachem Elimelech (category Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science faculty)
concept of cake-enhanced osmotic pressure and biofilm-enhanced osmotic pressure as important mechanisms for water flux decline in salt-rejecting membranes...
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Bruce E. Logan (category Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering)
also the director of Penn State's Engineering Energy and Environmental Institute and their Hydrogen Energy Center. His main research interest is in the...
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Synthetic biology (section Four engineering approaches)
genetically encoded. Re-engineering has produced Curli fibers, the amyloid component of extracellular material of biofilms, as a platform for programmable nanomaterial...
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SpaceX CRS-23 (category Supply vehicles for the International Space Station)
Belgium. European Space Agency (ESA) research and activities: ESA's BIOFILMS (Biofilm Inhibition On Flight equipment and on board the ISS using microbiologically...
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Cooling tower (redirect from Zero bleed for cooling towers)
dirt & debris from the cold water basin and surfaces with any visible biofilm (i.e., slime).[citation needed] Disinfectant and other chemical levels...
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First flush (category Environmental engineering)
of the sewer to be available for washout during peak flows. The wetted perimeter of sewers may also be colonized by biofilm nourished by soluble sanitary...
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03895-12. PMC 3623239. PMID 23377939. Mor, Roi; Sivan, Alex (2008-11-01). "Biofilm formation and partial biodegradation of polystyrene by the actinomycete...
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biofilm formation in the proventriculus, a valve connecting the midgut to the esophagus. The presence of this biofilm seems likely to be required for...
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River ecosystem (section Biofilm)
especially for the cells far from the biofilm surface, and this limits their survival and creates strong gradients within the biofilm. Both the biofilm physical...
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