Joseph Christie-Oleza
@jcolab.bsky.social
Marine microbial ecologist. Planktonic interactions, plastic biodegradation... mechanistic understanding always!
This was done with our innovative airbrush method (you can buy it in any hobby store), being able to spray any plastic (PHB, PCL, PLA, PBAT, PES, PBS, etc) on solid media plates. Then you can do a functional evaluation of colonies with the formation of degradation halos
November 7, 2024 at 8:20 AM
This was done with our innovative airbrush method (you can buy it in any hobby store), being able to spray any plastic (PHB, PCL, PLA, PBAT, PES, PBS, etc) on solid media plates. Then you can do a functional evaluation of colonies with the formation of degradation halos
There are 1000x less microbes able to degrade biodegradable plastics (i.e. aliphatic polyesters) in marine environments (sediments) than in their terrestrial counterparts! 🤯 Why? Still don't know🤔 (fig shows log10 values). Check our latest preprint doi.org/10.1101/2024...
November 7, 2024 at 8:18 AM
There are 1000x less microbes able to degrade biodegradable plastics (i.e. aliphatic polyesters) in marine environments (sediments) than in their terrestrial counterparts! 🤯 Why? Still don't know🤔 (fig shows log10 values). Check our latest preprint doi.org/10.1101/2024...