Coenye, Tom 
ORCID: 0000-0002-6407-0601, Ahonen, Merja, Anderson, Skip, Cámara, Miguel, Chundi, Parvathi, Fields, Matthew, Foidl, Ines, Gnimpieba, Etienne Z, Griffin, Kristen, Hinks, Jamie et al (show 11 more authors)
(2024)
Global challenges and microbial biofilms: Identification of priority questions in biofilm research, innovation and policy.
Biofilm, 8.
100210-.
ISSN 2590-2075, 2590-2075
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Abstract
Priority question exercises are increasingly used to frame and set future research, innovation and development agendas. They can provide an important bridge between the discoveries, data and outputs generated by researchers, and the information required by policy makers and funders. Microbial biofilms present huge scientific, societal and economic opportunities and challenges. In order to identify key priorities that will help to advance the field, here we review questions from a pool submitted by the international biofilm research community and from practitioners working across industry, the environment and medicine. To avoid bias we used computational approaches to group questions and manage a voting and selection process. The outcome of the exercise is a set of 78 unique questions, categorized in six themes: (i) Biofilm control, disruption, prevention, management, treatment (13 questions); (ii) Resistance, persistence, tolerance, role of aggregation, immune interaction, relevance to infection (10 questions); (iii) Model systems, standards, regulatory, policy education, interdisciplinary approaches (15 questions); (iv) Polymicrobial, interactions, ecology, microbiome, phage (13 questions); (v) Clinical focus, chronic infection, detection, diagnostics (13 questions); and (vi) Matrix, lipids, capsule, metabolism, development, physiology, ecology, evolution environment, microbiome, community engineering (14 questions). The questions presented are intended to highlight opportunities, stimulate discussion and provide focus for researchers, funders and policy makers, informing future research, innovation and development strategy for biofilms and microbial communities.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Biofilm Priority Questions Exercise Participants |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Engineering Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Physical Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Oct 2024 15:51 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Dec 2024 13:17 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.bioflm.2024.100210 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3186379 |
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