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Biofilms is a 44-minute short course featuring one of the biofilm research community's most prolific scientists. Dr. Paul Stoodley presents a detailed introduction of biofilm science and engineering concepts that focuses on biofilm formation, growth, hydrodynamics, structure and function, cell signaling, biofilm morphology and migration, detachment, mechanics, and an industrial application case study. Release: September 26, 2003

• Why Do Microorganisms Form Biofilms?
• Biofilms in Ancient Environments
• Biofilm Formation: A Deeply Routed Trait
• Biofilm Formation: Ancient Component of Prokaryotic Life

• Flat Plate Flow Cell
• Experimental System
• Attachment
• Growth and Detachment

• Streptococcus Mutans Biofilm

• Fluid Flow Through Biofilms
• Biofilm Channels
• Water Channels can Supply Nutrients

• Growth and Detachment
• Detachment Rate
• Detachment of Cell Cluster
• Detached Cell Cluster from Staph.
• Detached Biofilm Aggregates
• Detachment Patterns from Pseudo.
• Detachment Patterns Fit to Pareto Distribution

• Cell Signalling
• Influence of Cell Signals
• Nutrients: Increasing
• Nutrients: Decreasing
• Hydrodynamics
• Structure as a Function of Hydrodynamics
• Hydrodynamics and Biofilm Structure

• Ripple Morphology
• Ripple Migration
• S. Aureus Biofilms Rolling
• Shear Induced Detachment: Single Cells
• Shear Induced Detachment: Cluster
• Shear Induced Detachment
• Shear Induced Detachment of Single Cells

• Biofilms are Viscoelastic
• Staph. Aureus Creep Curve
• Biofilm Viscoelasticity by Rheometery

• Powered Tooth Brushing
• Powered Toothbrush "Mowing"

Dr. Stoodley is currently head of the Biofilm Mechanics group at the Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE) at Montana State University (MSU) where he has an Assistant Research Professor affiliation with the Department of Microbiology and an Adjunct Assistant Research Professor with the Department of Civil Engineering. Dr. Stoodley received a B.Sc. Hons. in Environmental Sciences from Lancaster University, UK and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Exeter University, UK. Dr. Stoodley worked at the CBE from 1987 to 1996 when he left to pursue his Ph.D. before returning to the CBE in 1999. Dr. Stoodley also runs his own industrial consulting company “Stoodley Biofilms Consulting” and is Principal Scientific consultant for BioSurface Technologies, manufacturers of biofilm experimental and monitoring systems. Research interests include the role of biofilm dynamic behavior in progression of infectious disease, biofilm development in environmental ecosystems, and biofilm mechanics and disruption. Dr. Stoodley has over 50 peer reviewed reviews, research papers and book chapters, he has been invited to speak at over twenty international conferences including five sponsored lectures from Philips Oral Healthcare “Emerging Trends in Oral Healthcare” series. Dr. Stoodley was recently awarded the 2003 Outstanding Research Award, College of Engineering, MSU, he has a Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) fellowship for 3 months study in Delmonorst, Germany for collaborative research with the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen and serves on the CBE executive committee.

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