Publication alert: Plastic reclamation using microorganisms
Sydney Pedari (BSc Computational Biochemistry/2023) has presented their research on streamlining plastic reclamation using microbial degradation at the Annual Canadian Ecotoxicity Workshop. This work was part of a larger project in the group of Profs Daniel Grégoire and Yaxi Hu (Institute of Biochemistry). This research characterized plastics using a rapid spectroscopic technique and investigated microbial biodegradative capacity of said plastics.
Read the abstract here and more on Sydney’s work here. For more information on Profs Grégoire and Hu’s research, visit https://carleton.ca/envbiotech/ and https://carleton.ca/fact-lab/.