FritzLab
@fritzlab.bsky.social
Synthetic biologist with a physics background. Engineers microbes for sustainable biotech applications, e.g. plastic degradation, bioplastic production, and microbial calcite precipitation. Vibrio natriegens afficiado 🦄
Website: https://www.fritz-lab.org
Website: https://www.fritz-lab.org
🚫🪱 Can worms eat away our PVC problem?
Not quite. Our new study shows mealworms & superworms chew on plasticized #PVC but gain nothing—no biodegradation, just toxicity.
Brilliant work by PhD student Zahra & Masters student Sinu in the Atkin/Fritz labs at UWA!
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Not quite. Our new study shows mealworms & superworms chew on plasticized #PVC but gain nothing—no biodegradation, just toxicity.
Brilliant work by PhD student Zahra & Masters student Sinu in the Atkin/Fritz labs at UWA!
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Mealworms and superworms fail to biodegrade PVC despite consumption
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is a prevalent plastic material that presents significant environmental concerns due to its resistance to degradation and pla…
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August 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
🚫🪱 Can worms eat away our PVC problem?
Not quite. Our new study shows mealworms & superworms chew on plasticized #PVC but gain nothing—no biodegradation, just toxicity.
Brilliant work by PhD student Zahra & Masters student Sinu in the Atkin/Fritz labs at UWA!
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Not quite. Our new study shows mealworms & superworms chew on plasticized #PVC but gain nothing—no biodegradation, just toxicity.
Brilliant work by PhD student Zahra & Masters student Sinu in the Atkin/Fritz labs at UWA!
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Our institute @iecb.bsky.social is looking for new group leaders. The call is also addressing plant scientists🌱! Join us in the beautiful city of Bordeaux!
www.iecb.u-bordeaux.fr/en/news/grou...
www.iecb.u-bordeaux.fr/en/news/grou...
April 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Our institute @iecb.bsky.social is looking for new group leaders. The call is also addressing plant scientists🌱! Join us in the beautiful city of Bordeaux!
www.iecb.u-bordeaux.fr/en/news/grou...
www.iecb.u-bordeaux.fr/en/news/grou...
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This Thursday at 3 PM, join us in the Bayliss Building for a talk by Dr. Lars Puiman, here from the University of Queensland: "From lab to industry: scaling-up bioreactors for gas fermentations". Sign up for tickets here: events.humanitix.com/from-lab-to-...
April 7, 2025 at 7:29 AM
This Thursday at 3 PM, join us in the Bayliss Building for a talk by Dr. Lars Puiman, here from the University of Queensland: "From lab to industry: scaling-up bioreactors for gas fermentations". Sign up for tickets here: events.humanitix.com/from-lab-to-...
Was great fun to host Susanne Gebhard, advancing our collaboration within an ARC Discovery Project on microbial biomineralisation! Stay tuned - great stuff to come later this year 🤩
Key perk of international collaboration: research projects brainstorming on the beaches of Perth, Australia 😎
April 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Was great fun to host Susanne Gebhard, advancing our collaboration within an ARC Discovery Project on microbial biomineralisation! Stay tuned - great stuff to come later this year 🤩
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Whoohoo, new paper just published! New insights into the metabolic processes leading to bacterial biomineralisation 🧫🔬
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Much happiness in the team 😇🥳
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Much happiness in the team 😇🥳
April 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Whoohoo, new paper just published! New insights into the metabolic processes leading to bacterial biomineralisation 🧫🔬
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Much happiness in the team 😇🥳
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Much happiness in the team 😇🥳