Maulin P. Shah

Application of Biofilms in Applied Microbiology - Developments in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Maulin P. Shah

In 13 chapters Application of Biofilms in Applied Microbiology gives a complete overview on the structure, physiology, and application of biofilms produced by microbes, and their potential application in the area of biotechnology. Application of Biofilms in Applied Microbiology opens with 5 chapters on New Technologies for Biofilm Study, Physiology of microorganisms in biofilms, Bacterial biofilms; Biofilm development and fungal biofilms, summarizing various technologies available for biofilm study.

Followed by three chapters describing biofilm developments with Bacillus subtillis, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas putida and several chapters on the study of microbial biofilm and their advantages and disadvantages in the area of environmental biotechnology, Application of Biofilms in Applied Microbiology closes the book with a chapter on describing the rapid development of new sequencing technologies and the use of metagenomics, revealing the great diversity of microbial life, and enabling the emergence of a new perspective on population dynamics.

Application of Biofilms in Applied Microbiology provides an overview of the formation, structure/architecture, cell-to-cell interactions, and dispersal of fungal, algal, and bacterial biofilms, and points to how biofilms could solve the common problems faced by microbiologists, biochemical engineers, and biotechnologists.