Bacterial biofilm shows persistent resistance to liquid wetting and gas penetration.

Citation:

Epstein AK, Pokroy B, Seminara A, Aizenberg J. Bacterial biofilm shows persistent resistance to liquid wetting and gas penetration. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 2011;108 (3) :995-1000.

Notes:

We are grateful to Dr. Moshe Shemesh, Dr. Yunrong (Win) Chai, and Dr. Ilana Kolodkin-Gal (Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) for providing plates and cul- tures as well as guidance in biological technique, to Dr. Hera Vlamakis and Dr. Allon Hochbaum for advice on biological protocols, and to Dr. Thomas Angelini for assistance with confocal microscopy. We thank Prof. Richard Losick for use of his laboratory facilities, Dr. Alison Grinthal for assistance with the manuscript, and Dr. Mark Rivers for training and help at Beamline 13-BMD at the Advanced Photon Source. This work was funded by the BASF Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard University. Use of the Advanced Photon Source was supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract W-31-109-Eng-38.

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