Marine microbial ecologist. Planktonic interactions, plastic biodegradation... mechanistic understanding always!https://bsky.app/profile/jcolab.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jcolab.bsky.social/post/3m7p6fbwqpc2sMetabolic redundancy is required for microbial polyethylene assimilation. Cellular and metagenomic analyses show that redundancy of the fatty acid metabolism is essential to process the enormous pool of oxidised aliphatic metabolites generated by weathered PE #plastic https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.693370v111 Dec 2025 08:39 +0000at://did:plc:75scf3eeqgfuuxo7xw6zxlvy/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7p6fbwqpc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/jcolab.bsky.social/post/3lett6q3qyk2pGood start to 2025! We need to work towards improving plastic degradation in marine environments. "Lack of functional polyester-biodegrading potential in marine versus terrestrial environments evidenced by an innovative airbrushing technique" https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030438942403645803 Jan 2025 14:42 +0000at://did:plc:75scf3eeqgfuuxo7xw6zxlvy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lett6q3qyk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/jcolab.bsky.social/post/3ladt6nchht26There 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 https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.06.62223107 Nov 2024 08:18 +0000at://did:plc:75scf3eeqgfuuxo7xw6zxlvy/app.bsky.feed.post/3ladt6nchht26