b'External Image CreditsFront cover: Celestial landscape at thePage 31: Image provided by the SWITCH team.microscale.This image captures a microscopicPage 37: Synechocystis lit from behind. The view of Sphingomonas desiccabilis biofilm growing on an Icelandic basalt slide, stainedelectrochemical gradient across the Synechocystis with Sybr Gold to distinguish microbialbiofilm. Image by Evan Wroe, Joshua Lawrence cells from the rock surface. Image by Rosaand Mairi Eyres from the University of Cambridge.Santomartino, from the University of Edinburgh. Page 51: Bloom. Two circular canvases painted Page 26: A Hostile Takeover? An epithelialwith acrylics to represent biofilms and the beauty cell in the urine of a chronic UTI patientof their interactions. Image by River Darling.completely covered in biofilm, made up mostlyPages 52-53: Credit and description of Gram-positive cocci. Image by Catherineas noted below images.Chieng from University College London.Page 54: Candy Land! 18 hour biofilm of Page 30: Bacterial planet. These images werePseudomonas aeruginosa stained with FM4-64. captured using scanning electron microscopyImage taken using a Zeiss LSM 980. Image by (SEM), and false coloured using AdobeElizabeth Ison from the University of Nottingham.Photoshop. The scientists immobilized L. lactis cells within polymer vesicles, allowing the bacteria to grow and form biofilms inside these vesicles. The resulting hybrid bacterial vesicles proved to be highly effective in the production of lactic acid. It offers a promising new approach to harnessing biofilms for various practical applications in our daily lives. Image by Huan Ma and Xiayi Liu from the University of Bristol.ResourcesNBIC PUBLICATIONS NBIC EDUCATIONAL AND REPORTS RESOURCES55'