Collaborations and expansion

Mar 25, 2018

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Collaborations and expansionHi all! I'd like to share some exciting developments of the project!
First off, we found a new collaborator, Dr. Jeff Bowman at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, to assist us in bioinformatics analyses! You can find his website here: 
http://www.polarmicrobes.org. 
Secondly, we're ready to pilot portions of this project in undergraduate classrooms! Starting this June, we will have undergraduate classes learn science by actually participating in it via sample collection, culturing, and describing diversity by counting colony types. More to come soon!

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About This Project

What kind of microbes attach to floating plastic in coastal waters?

National University

While many studies have focused on the visible impact of ocean plastic, we know much less about the impact of microbes that choose plastic as their home, forming the so-called plastisphere. The goal of my project is to evaluate the microbial diversity on floating plastic such as retail plastic bags in coastal waters and its potential impact on humans living on coastal areas. The project uses metagenomic next generation sequencing and standard microbiology techniques.