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.