Quantifying the effect of substrate composition on intra-colony channel morphology in E. coli biofilms using a custom-made open-source image analysis pipeline

Bottura, Beatrice and Rooney, Liam M. and Hoskisson, Paul A. and McConnell, Gail (2022) Quantifying the effect of substrate composition on intra-colony channel morphology in E. coli biofilms using a custom-made open-source image analysis pipeline. In: European Light Microscopy Initiative 2022, 2022-06-07 - 2022-06-10, Turku, Finland.

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Abstract

Networks of intra-colony channels are involved in nutrient transport inside mature E. coli biofilms. We hypothesise that nutrient availability and substrate composition affect biofilm morphology and channel architecture.

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Bottura, Beatrice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-4384, Rooney, Liam M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2237-501X, Hoskisson, Paul A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4332-1640 and McConnell, Gail ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7213-0686;
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