{"id":2846,"date":"2024-11-28T16:08:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T21:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:04:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:04:57","slug":"biochemistry-student-spotlight-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/2024\/biochemistry-student-spotlight-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Biochemistry Student Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Biochemistry Student Spotlight\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h3 id=\"publication-alert-plastic-reclamation-using-microorganisms\" class=\"wp-block-heading xxxxmsonormal\">Publication alert: Plastic reclamation using microorganisms<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/Pic-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2851\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"xxxxmsonormal\"><b>Sydney Pedari<\/b><span class=\"xxxxxapple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>(BSc Computational Biochemistry\/2023) has presented their research on streamlining plastic reclamation using microbial degradation at the Annual Canadian Ecotoxicity Workshop.<span class=\"xxxxxapple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>This work was part of a larger project in the group of Profs <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/people\/daniel-gregoire\/\">Daniel Gr\u00e9goire<\/a><span class=\"xxxxxapple-converted-space\"> and&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/people\/yaxi-hu-july-2022\/\">Yaxi Hu<\/a> (Institute of Biochemistry). This research characterized plastics using a rapid spectroscopic technique and investigated microbial biodegradative capacity of said plastics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"xxxxmsonormal\">Read the abstract <a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ecotoxcan.ca%2F_files%2Fugd%2Fbd30d6_f83f9033ea2644a78c4afbab5b091493.pdf&amp;data=05%7C02%7CSalmanKhanPathan%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C0af76518442e4c83f09b08dd0fd041c4%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638684109330532453%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=iwM8qeLQCM9w12%2F5Hg3r3fDlnR7N%2F8TvIlN32CXWYVE%3D&amp;reserved=0\">here<\/a> and more on Sydney\u2019s work <a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ferefdn.org%2Fscholar%2Fsydney-pedari%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CSalmanKhanPathan%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C0af76518442e4c83f09b08dd0fd041c4%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638684109330560088%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=2TU%2BIxFofKwBGOb9B5Qq7%2BJ8u161qMawNl%2BXv%2FG3Xrg%3D&amp;reserved=0\">here<\/a>. For more information on Profs Gr\u00e9goire and Hu\u2019s research, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/envbiotech\/\">https:\/\/carleton.ca\/envbiotech\/<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fact-lab\/\">https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fact-lab\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publication alert: Plastic reclamation using microorganisms &nbsp; Sydney Pedari&nbsp;(BSc Computational Biochemistry\/2023) has presented their research on streamlining plastic reclamation using microbial degradation at the Annual Canadian Ecotoxicity Workshop.&nbsp;This work was part of a larger project in the group of Profs Daniel Gr\u00e9goire and&nbsp;Yaxi Hu (Institute of Biochemistry). 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