Biofilms - Research Center for Biointerfaces
Biofilms – Research Center for Biointerfaces
is a multidisciplinary research and education center at Malmö University, involving five research groups and a number of companies in the region. We strive, jointly with industry, to become an internationally acknowledged and well-reputed center, utilising the synergistic potential of our multidisciplinary crew.
The goal of the current research is understanding, prediction and control of material/biomolecule/cell interactions with medical, dental, food, and environmental applications. It is important to emphasise that a broad biofilm definition is used, including parts of the wider field of Biointerfaces.
The Center is currently financed to a major part from the KK-foundation, balanced by contracts with industry. Future collaboration can to some extent be housed within the current agreements, or alternatively be subject to new applications, as well as other types of financing.
We offer
• A multidisciplinary problem-oriented approach to questions related to biofilms and biological interfaces.
• Flexibility and creativity in finding the optimal project strategy in collaboration with each individual client
• State of the art equipment in our core research areas
• Resources gathered within one Center, providing established routines for collaboration with industry to the benefit of all parts involved.
Core expertise
• Improvement of laboratory and clinical methods in the fields of health and medical care
• Phenomena at biological surfaces and surface chemistry in biological systems
• Resistance and response in biological membranes
• Antigen-presenting cells and their capability of alerting the immune system
• Microbial biofilms formation and modulation
• Regulation of metabolism and physiological processes in biofilm bacteria of relevance for oral health and disease
• Interaction between microbial biofilms and mucosal surfaces
• Physical processes related to crack growth; composites; corrosion in conjunction with tension; mechanics of paper; effects of hydrogen on construction material
• Mathematical modelling in order to understand and predict a variety of phenomena, biomathematics, e.g., digital image analysis and computer vision.
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