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1. What is biofilm
Cultivation in liquid media (known as "planktonic") has been the foundation of microbiology for over a century, ever since the work of German physician Robert Koch, who can be considered the true founder of microbiology via the development of the main methods still used in microbiology today.
The birth of microbiology
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), a Dutch trader and microscopy enthusiast, meticulously described the "animalcules" he observed using microscopes he built himself. It was with one of these microscopes that, in 1863, he described the different bacterial morphologies known to this day. It was also he who first observed what we call "biofilms" on dental surfaces.
For a long time, it was assumed that these microscopic beings were born from...
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Bibliography
Bibliography
Websites
Center for Biofilm Engineering http://www.biofilm.montana.edu
Events
Biofilm 8 International congress http://conferences.au.dk/biofilms8
5th Biofouling-Antifouling Symposium https://borea.mnhn.fr
Regulations
Regulation (EC) No 782/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 April 2003 on the prohibition of organotin compounds on ships (Official Journal of the European Union 115 of 09/05/2003)
Commission Regulation (EC) No 536/2008 of June 13, 2008 prohibiting organotin compounds on ships and amending Regulation 782/2003
Laboratoires
Polymers, Biopolymers, Surfaces Laboratory (UMR CNRS 6270), University of Rouen http://pbs.labos.univ-rouen.fr
Biofilm genetics laboratory, Institut Pasteur https://research.pasteur.fr
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