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In most humid natural and artificial environments, microbial biomass is organized in the form of biofilms at liquid-air, liquid-liquid, liquid-solid, or solid-air interfaces. This fixed biomass hosts significant prokaryotic and eukaryotic biodiversity, the site of extremely varied ecological interactions and exchanges of all kinds (information, nutrients, genes, etc.).

Understanding the biofilm lifestyle requires characterizing it. This characterization can lead to studying its formation, its evolution, its composition, its properties. It can be carried out at end point, kinetically, continuously, using destructive or non-destructive approaches. The tools available to the scientific community to carry out this characterization are very varied and sometimes very sophisticated. Non-exhaustively, there are classic microbiology approaches (isolation, enumeration on a Petri dish, phenotypic characterization of isolates), imaging approaches (phase contrast, fluorescence, confocal laser scanning, electronic, atomic force), analytical chemistry approaches (chromatography, vibrational spectroscopy), physical approaches (rheology, goniometry), omics approaches (transcriptomics, genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, microbiomics).

The special issue welcomes original studies or reviews focusing on biofilm characterization or monitoring, dealing, for example with:

• Biofilm models (in vitro, ex vivo, in vivo)
• Biofilm formation: microbial attachment, matrix production, 3D organization
• Biofilm imaging
• Ecology of biofilms
• Extraction and characterization of extracellular polymetric substances from biofilms
• Physical properties of biofilms
• Understanding biofilms through the application of omics techniques
•Biofilm monitoring

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