Søren Molin

TL;DR: Biofilms can be prevented by early aggressive antibiotic prophylaxis or therapy and they can be treated by chronic suppressive therapy and a promising strategy may be the use of enzymes that can dissolve the biofilm matrix as well as quorum-sensing inhibitors that increase biofilm susceptibility to antibiotics.

TL;DR: Analysis of biofilms of P. aureofaciens growing on 0.03 mM, 0.1 mM or 0.5 mM citrate minimal media showed that mean biofilm thickness increased with increasing citrate concentration, whereas surface to volume ratio increased with higher citrate concentrations.

TL;DR: A synthetic derivate of natural furanone compounds can act as a potent antagonist of bacterial quorum sensing and inhibited virulence factor expression in a mouse pulmonary infection model.

TL;DR: New variants of green fluorescent protein from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria have been constructed by the addition of short peptide sequences to the C-terminal end of intact Gfp, rendering the Gfp susceptible to the action of indigenous housekeeping proteases.

TL;DR: Dynamics and selection during biofilm formation were investigated by tagging the wild type and flagella/type IV mutants with Yfp and Cfp and performing time‐lapse confocal laser scanning microscopy in mixed colour biofilms, which revealed dynamic compositions with extensive motility, competition and selection occurring during development.