Coenye Tom, Kjellerup Birthe, Stoodley Paul, Bjarnsholt Thomas
Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
ESCMID Study Group on Biofilms, Basel, Switzerland.
Biofilm. 2019 Dec 24;2:100012. doi: 10.1016/j.bioflm.2019.100012. eCollection 2020 Dec.
In May 2019, 29 scientists with expertise in various subdisciplines of biofilm research got together in Leavenworth (WA, USA) at an event designated as the '2019 Biofilm Bash'. The goal of this informal two-day meeting was first to identify gaps in our knowledge, and then to come up with ways how the biofilm community can fill these gaps. The meeting was organized around six questions that covered the most important items brought forward by the organizers and participants. The outcome of these discussions is summarized in the present paper. We are aware that these views represent a small subset of our field, and that inevitably we will have inadvertently overlooked important developing research areas and ideas. We are nevertheless hopeful that this report will stimulate discussions and help create new ways of how we can advance our field.
2019年5月，29位在生物膜研究各子领域具有专业知识的科学家齐聚美国华盛顿州莱文沃思，参加一场名为“2019生物膜狂欢”的活动。这次为期两天的非正式会议的目标首先是找出我们知识上的空白，然后想出生物膜研究群体填补这些空白的方法。会议围绕六个问题展开，这些问题涵盖了组织者和参与者提出的最重要事项。本文总结了这些讨论的结果。我们意识到这些观点仅代表我们领域的一小部分，而且不可避免地，我们可能无意中忽略了一些重要的正在发展的研究领域和想法。尽管如此，我们希望本报告能激发讨论，并有助于创造推动我们领域发展的新方法。
