HUMAN IN SPACE 2021 – APRIL 5-8 Moskow, Russia Oral Presentation Topic: Astrobiology, Space Biology and Space Biotechnology Title: Fighting microbial biofilms in space by ESA's upcoming space microbiology and material science experiment BIOFILMS

1 Institute of Aerospace Medicine, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Cologne, Germany 2 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany 3 Microbiology Unit, Interdisciplinary Biosciences, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Mol, Belgium 4 Research Unit in Microorganisms Biology (URBM), Narilis Institute, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium 5 NASA Ames Research Center / Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, CA, USA 6 ESA, European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, Netherlands 7 Kayser Italia Srl, Livorno, Italy 8 Robert-Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany