Biofilms have complex interactions with their surrounding environment. To comprehensively investigate biofilm-environment interactions, we present here a series of methods to create heterogeneous chemical environment for biofilm development, to quantify local flow velocity, and to analyze mass transport in and around biofilm colonies.
Li, X., Song, J. L., Culotti, A., Zhang, W., Chopp, D. L., Lu, N., Packman, A. I. Methods for Characterizing the Co-development of Biofilm and Habitat Heterogeneity. J. Vis. Exp. (97), e52602, doi:10.3791/52602 (2015).