University of Lausanne, CH-1015

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Environment

Combining Fluidic Devices with Microscopy and Flow Cytometry to Study Microbial Transport in Porous Media Across Spatial Scales

David Scheidweiler^1,2, Pietro De Anna², Tom J. Battin¹, Hannes Peter¹

¹Stream Biofilm and Ecosystem Research Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, ²Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, CH-1015

Breakthrough curves (BTCs) are efficient tools to study the transport of bacteria in porous media. Here we introduce tools based on fluidic devices in combination with microscopy and flow cytometric counting to obtain BTCs.