King's College London

Biofilms are composed of distinct macromolecules and polymers, and biofilm-inspired materials are of interest for use in a range of different synthetic applications. Likewise, the ability to control the formation of mixed species microbial communities is highly attractive for engineering biology applications. Work across the MBRH includes using biofilms to develop new materials for regenerative medicine, engineer complex metabolic pathways, develop new microbial energy producing systems, program self-assembly of bacterial populations, and create multi-scale reporter systems. Other work is focussed on developing new ways to study biofilms, which include generating new imaging probes and label-free methods for biofilm analysis, developing AI driven tools for biofilm image analysis.

 

Synthetic biology and technological advancements is a research project of the Multiscale Biofilm Research Hub. Find out more about the Hub here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/mbrh.

Other Research Groups involved in the project include: Abbate, Bergholt, Chan, Elsharkawy, Fruhwirth, Garnett, Li, Sailem, Sedgwick, Suhling.