Award for a research of biofilm formation - attachment and growth of bacteria monitored by real-time ATR-IR spectroscopy

Pavla Štenclová, Ph.D., from the Department of Optical Materials of the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences received the Austin Barnes´ Prize for the best poster called "ATR-IR real-time monitoring of biofilm formation during bacterial growth" presented at the EUCMOS 2018 Conference (XXXIV European Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy) held in August 2018 in Coimbra, Portugal.

The presented results were obtained during the research stay at the University of Ulm (Germany) within the frame supporting the international cooperation of young scientists called "IR imaging of biological systems using structural and functional optical elements" funded by the Czech Academy of Sciences.