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Bacteria have been extensively investigated in their unicellular mode of life in liquid cultures. However, biofilm communities are now considered to be the most abundant mode of bacterial life on Earth, and many properties and functions of biofilms are still unclear. Mechanistically understanding which properties and functions of biofilms emerge at the single-cell level, and which emerge at the multicellular level, presents a major challenge for biofilm research in the coming years.
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Knut Drescher Jahrgang 1983. 2003–2007 Physikstudium an der University of Oxford, UK. 2007–2011 biophysikalische Promotion an der University of Cambridge, UK. 2011–2014 Postdoktorand an der Princeton University, USA. Seit 2014 Leiter der Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe „Bakterielle Biofilme“ am Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Marburg. Seit 2015 Professor für Biophysik an der Universitüt Marburg.
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Drescher, K. Bakterielle Multizellularität in Biofilmen. Biospektrum 25, 258–260 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12268-019-1038-6
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