Biofilms

Dr Gurtler is a Molecular biologist with extensive industry experience and expertise in DNA analysis for the identification and typing of organisms. He is known internationally as the author of the original methodology of ribotyping. He is Advisor to Geneious (Bioinformatics software company) and previous head of Molecular Biology at Austin Health Microbiology, currently Adjunct Professor at RMIT University, Editor of Journal of Microbiological Methods, Editor of Heliyon and Series Editor of Methods in Microbiology. Dr Gurtler is currently working in collaboration with Assoc. Prof Danilla Grando on ribosome analysis of E. coli isolates and association with virulence. He visits RMIT regularly to advise on experimental methods and help PhD students use Geneious Bioinformatic software.

1. Monospecies and polymicrobial biofilms in static and flow environment Mohd Hafiz Arzmi 2. Methods used to study biofilms 3. Spatial analysis of bacterial biofilms Romain Briandet, Virgile Guéneau, Raphael Charron, Vlad Costache and Arnaud Bridier 4. Biofilm grown in bioreactors Edvaldo Antonio Ribeiro Rosa 5. Single-cell analysis of subpopulations within biofilms using microscopy, flow cytometry, and imaging flow cytometry Ilana Kolodkin-Gal 6. Microscopy analysis of biofilm-mineral interactions or mineral formation within biofilms Karim Benzerara 7. Bacterial biofilms as an essential component of rhizosphere plant-microbe interactions Dmitri Mavrodi 8. Studying Gene Expression in Biofilms Boo Shan Tseng