Biofilm architecture determines the dissemination of conjugative plasmids: We measured the spatiotemporal spread of plasmids in biofilms and found that plasmids only spread in some biofilm regions!
Collab with lab of @sbigot.bsky.social & Christian Lesterlin
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Plasmid conjugation is a contact-dependent horizontal gene transfer mechanism that
significantly contributes to the dissemination of antibiotic res...
