April 3, 2013

A paper recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), representing a collaborative project between researchers at the University of Michigan and Montana State University’s Center for Biofilm Engineering, sheds new light on biofilm processes with important medical implications.

December 10, 2012

“From Seeing to Solving…”

Imaging sparks the imagination. In this year's annual report, we celebrate biofilm imaging by sharing some of the striking images and movies we are collecting on our two newly installed confocal scanning laser microscopes (CSLM).

The end of the year can be a hectic time. This year we invite you to take a minute to relax and contemplate a quiet green forest of. . . biofilm!

November 15, 2012

A CBE confocal microscope image is featured on the cover of the December 2012 issue of Biotechnology and Bioengineering. This is the second CBE image on the cover of Biotechnology and Bioengineering in the past year.

October 1, 2012

This is an image of a sand grain taken from a reactor operated by Josh Stringam, a CBE undergraduate student.

August 28, 2012

A movie image taken from the CBE’s new Leica confocal microscope was featured in Cell journal’s online Cell Picture Show.

July 24, 2012

The mission of the Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE) is to advance the basic knowledge, technology, and education required to understand, control and exploit biofilm processes. In support of this mission, the CBE launched a series of Knowledge Sharing Articles with the purpose of disseminating information that is the topic of presentations, posters, workshops or discussions that occur at the CBE.

May 25, 2012

You may not be familiar with the term "biofilm," but you have certainly encountered biofilm on a regular basis.