title: Using surface plasmon resonance imaging to study bacterial biofilms.
abstract: This paper describes the use of Surface Plasmon Resonance imaging (SPRi) as an emerging technique to study bacterial physiology in real-time without labels. The overwhelming majority of bacteria on earth exist in large multicellular communities known as biofilms. Biofilms are especially problematic because they facilitate the survival of pathogens, leading to chronic and recurring infections as well as costly industrial complications. Monitoring biofilm accumulation and removal is therefore critical in these and other applications. SPRi uniquely provides label-free, high-resolution images of biomass coverage on large channel surfaces up to 1 cm(2) in real time, which allow quantitative assessment of biofilm dynamics. The rapid imaging capabilities of this technique are particularly relevant for multicellular bacterial studies, as these cells can swim several body lengths per second and divide multiple times per hour. We present here the first application of SPRi to image Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells moving, attaching, and forming biofilms across a large surface. This is also the first time that biofilm removal has been visualized with SPRi, which has important implications for monitoring the biofouling and regeneration of fluidic systems. Initial images of the removal process show that the biofilm releases from the surface as a wave along the direction of the fluid flow.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave., 313SN, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Pegah N
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Abadian
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave., 313SN, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Nil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tandogan
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave., 313SN, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
authors.forename: John J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Jamieson
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave., 313SN, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Edgar D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Goluch
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