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CBE News Update
March, 2006
Volume 9, Issue 3
CBE makes the cover of
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
American Society
for Microbiology, 03/2006
images republished with permission
| Congratulations to Jason Chambless, PhD candidate in
Chemical and Biological Engineering, Montana State University, whose image was
featured on the cover of the March 2006 issue of Applied and
Environmental Engineering.
The image illustrates a publication authored by CBE Jason D.
Chambless, Stephen M. Hunt, and P. S. Stewart, “A Three-Dimensional
Computer Model of Four Hypothetical Mechanisms Protecting Biofilms
from Antimicrobials,” Applied and Environmental Engineering,
72(3):2005-2013.
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Read the
full text (pdf) here.
View the computer model
movie.
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About the Cover Distribution of live (green) and dead
(red) cells in a microbial biofilm simulated with a
three-dimensional cellular automata model. The yellow
background is the substratum. This section shows the
predicted pattern of viability in an antimicrobial-treated
biofilm, in the layer of cells immediately adjacent to the
attachment surface. Among the features captured in this
model that are noted in real biofilms are hollow cell
clusters, antimicrobial tolerance of biofilm in comparison
with the susceptibility of free-floating cells, and nonuniform, stochastic patterns of survival. (See related
article on page 2005.) |
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