Periodic Reporting for period 1 - POLIS (Studying the bricks of microbial cities: characterization and structural properties of exopolysaccharides and their interaction with proteins and cations in anammox granular sludge)

Biofilms are defined as communities of microbial cells growing inside a complex self-synthesized matrix composed of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). Within various kinds of biofilms, microbial granules play an important role in the field of biological wastewater (ww)...