Methods for the Study of Microbial Biofilms

Auteur

Dr. Abhishek Guldhe is an Associate Professor at Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Maharashtra, India. He was awarded with the prestigious Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. His research focus areas are microalgal biotechnology, biofuels, bioactive compounds, environmental biotechnology, and waste beneficiation. He teaches various subjects of biotechnology and environmental sciences. He has over 45 publications which include papers and book chapters in reputed international journals and books.

Dr. Vinothkannan Ravichandran graduated from SASTRA University, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India. He then joined IIT Madras as Research Associate. After that he joined Helmholtz institute of Biotechnology, Shandong University, China as a postdoctoral associate. His area of research is drug designing against quorum sensing pathways of multi drug resistant bacterial pathogens. With more than 6 years of postdoc experience, he joined Amity University Mumbai where he teaches various courses especially biochemistry and bioinformatics. He has contributed 27 publications in peer reviewed journals and completed a prestigious China Postdoctoral science foundation grant and Shandong University International Exchange Fellowship as well. He serves as reviewer in various national and international journals.Dr. Shashank Kamble has expertise in the biology of infectious diseases with an emphasis on tuberculosis and a consistent academic background in microbiology. He holds a PhD in Biological Sciences from the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi and is currently serving as the Assistant Professor at the Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Mumbai. He has 11 peer-reviewed international publications and has delivered invited talks in various academic institutions across the country. He has received research grants from national funding agencies and recently has received an award for his innovation on the biological filter for groundwater softening by the Agastya International Foundation, Times group and GlobalShala in 2021. He serves as manuscript reviewer for many international peer reviewed journals. His research interests include the microbial adaptations inside the hosts such as biofilms and natural habitats as well as the mechanism of anti-microbial resistance and combating strategies.

Texte du rabat
Methods for the study of microbial biofilms: Current Trends and Recent Advancements provides a detailed overview of the latest techniques for the study of biofilms. The book explores a wide range of methods for the characterization and study of cells within biofilms, including microscopy techniques, genomic approaches, transcriptomics, proteomic and proteogenomic tools. Computational and mathematical modelling are also covered. Chapters will investigate the physiology of biofilm cells, gene expression pathways related to the formation, maturation and dispersion of biofilms, and molecular factors governing the biofilm formation and development, providing an overview of techniques that can be used at the cellular and molecular level.This book provides a broad overview of the biofilm field and the range of techniques that can be used to study and better understand them. It is a helpful guide for researchers working with biofilms from a range of backgrounds including molecular biology, microbiology, cell biology, biotechnology, medicine, environmental science and food technology.

Contenu

1. Microbial biofilms: Occurrence and implications
   
   2. In silico methods to study biofilms
   3. In vitro methods to study biofilms
   4. Microscopic methods for biofilm analysis
   5. In vivo models for biofilms6. Genomic approaches to study biofilms
   6. Transcriptomics approaches: qPCR-based techniques
   7. Transcriptomics approaches: Microarray and RNA sequencing-based techniques
   8. Proteomics studies of biofilms
   9. Metabolomics studies
   10. Metagenomics/population studies for biofilms
   11. Proteogenomic, a latest tool for simultaneous identification of microbial dynamics and proteins involved in biofilm formation
   12. Mathematical tools to understand biofilms