Contact: Gail Glover
gglover@binghamton.edu
607-777-2174
Binghamton University

David Davies, Associate Professor of Biology, Binghamton University

Caption: David Davies has found and is in the process of synthesizing a compound that will cause biofilm colonies to disperse, thus leaving individual bacteria up to 1,000 times more susceptible to disinfectants, antibiotics and immune functions.

Credit: Ashok Subramanian

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