PARTNER UNIVERSITY
University of Birmingham
Research Areas & Focuses
- Mathematical modelling of biofilms, including individual-based modelling, microbial populationdynamics, and computational fluid dynamics
- Oral biofilms – modelling, imaging, host-pathogen interaction, multispecies oral biofilms, surface coatings for prevention of oral biofilms
- Wound decontamination and healing
- Engineering biofilms for beneficial applications
- Managing industrial biofilms
- Synthetic polymers to manage biofilms
- Antibiofilm treatments
- Use of nanoparticles for biofilm imaging and removal
- MRI for biofilm imaging
- High throughput biofilm screening
- Biofilms in rivers
University of Birmingham
Facilities
- BlueBEAR supercomputer for simulating mathematical models of biofilms
- Environmental Omics Facility
- Birmingham Advanced Light Microscopy facility (BALM)
- Birmingham imaging Suite
- Flow cytometry facility
- Birmingham Drug Discovery Facility
- Oral clinical trials facility
- ECOLAB (outdoor recirculating river flumes)
- 300 MHz (7T) magnetic resonance micro-imaging instrument
- MicrobesNG DNA sequencing facility
- Microbiology labs and bacterial-host interaction facilities
Researchers
Manuel Banzhaf, School of Biosciences
Melanie Britton, School of Chemistry
Josette Camilleri, School of Dentistry
Iain Chapple, School of Dentistry
Adam Cunningham, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Francisco Fernandez-Trillo, School of Chemistry
Peter Fryer, School of Chemical Engineering
Melissa Grant, School of Dentistry
Ruchi Gupta, School of Chemistry
Josefine Hirschfeld, School of Dentistry
Sara Jabbari, School of Mathematics
Jan Kreft, School of Biosciences
Sarah Kuehne, School of Dentistry
Mark Ledger, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Pete Lund, School of Biosciences
Paula Mendes, School of Chemical Engineering
Mike Milward, School of Dentistry
Tim Overton, School of Chemical Engineering
Will Palin, School of Dentistry
Zoe Pikramenou, School of Chemistry
Greg Sambrook Smith, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Rachel Sammons, School of Dentistry
Damien Walmsley, School of Dentistry
Qianxi Wang, School of Mathematics
Jason Zhang, School of Chemical Engineering