CONICET | Buscador de Institutos y Recursos Humanos

Bacterial transport has important impacts in both ecology and health care systems. In medicine, infectious processes can affect the body?s immunological responses and can influence normal wound healing. Many techniques have been used in order to control or direct the transport of bacteria. In particular, the use of galvanic current was proposed by Spector et al. (2015) aiming the transference of microorganisms from a contaminated metal plate to another sterile metal plate[1]. Even though the phenomena were observed macroscopically, testing the transparency of the initial sterile culture media, the microscopic dynamics of this process remains unclear. Following these questions, we have designed microdevices combining 3D printing and polidimetilsiloxane (PDMS) casting techniques in order to study the transport of bacterial suspension under the influence of electric fields. This work will present the prelaminar results on the interaction between microorganisms and the applied electric force