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Studying Mechanisms of Environmental Organic Processes, #Metabolomics #Biogeochemistry #Biotechnology, Dr. Ludmilla Aristilde #BlkInEngineering #BlkinGeoscience

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Aristilde Lab @ Northwestern Engineering
9 months
New Group Picture @AristildeLab. Happy Autumn everyone!
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RT @NorthwesternU: In this period of uncertainty, the University will fund research that is subject to stop-work orders or the federal fund….
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Aristilde Lab @ Northwestern Engineering
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#Pseudomonas putida preprint alert: We provide a quantitative blueprint of #carbon and #energy fluxes in the native metabolism of #lignin aromatics: ferulate, coumarate, vanillate, and hydroxybenzoate.
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Aristilde Lab @ Northwestern Engineering
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RT @NorthwesternEng: Concrete is a climate problem, and this breakthrough could help fix it. Professors Alessandro Rotta Loria and Jeffrey….
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Aristilde Lab @ Northwestern Engineering
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How fast and how efficient can iron oxides catalyze phosphate cleavage from ribonucleotides? See our latest pub in @EnvSciTech on rates and turnover numbers for #enzyme-like reaction by #iron oxides, natural mineral #catalysts. Funded by @ENERGY @IINanoNU .
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@AristildeLab featured in the Daily Northwestern. #plastics #bacteria #soul #nutrients . @cee_nwu . @NUSynBio .
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Aristilde Lab @ Northwestern Engineering
7 months
A worthy read!.
@KateAdamala
Kate Adamala
7 months
Today I’m joining 30+ colleagues in taking an unusual step: calling for a halt to a line of research I was excited about, the long-term effort to build “mirror life”. We’re sharing our findings in a @ScienceMagazine paper:. 1/6.
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Aristilde Lab @ Northwestern Engineering
8 months
Aristilde Lab has now an account on blue sky. Please follow us at @aristildelab.bsky.social.
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Aristilde Lab @ Northwestern Engineering
8 months
Congrats Monica!.
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Monica Olvera de la Cruz
8 months
I got inducted to the American Philosophical Society ; amazing talks
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Aristilde Lab @ Northwestern Engineering
8 months
Official cover #MyACSCover of @AristildeLab publication on #enzyme mechanisms by #plastics-eating wastewater bacteria in ES&T @EnvSciTech. Article link: Led by postdocs Dr Rebecca Wilkes and Dr Nanqing Zhou. @NSF funded @NUSynBio @NorthwesternEng @cee_nwu
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Aristilde Lab @ Northwestern Engineering
8 months
Northwestern Center for Synthetic Biology @NUSynBio highlights recent article in Chicago Sun Times @Suntimes on @AristildeLab research.
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Northwestern CSB
8 months
Growing up in Haiti, @AristildeLab saw the effects of environmental disasters. Now, she’s leading a team harnessing microbes to break down plastics in rivers. Join the fight for a sustainable future!🌱 #Sustainability #Innovation
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Aristilde Lab @ Northwestern Engineering
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Check out live interview @WGNNews #Chicago on the 5'Oclock news today. We discussed the plastic problem and @Aristildelab research on figuring out how microbes in #nature can feed on #plastics. a slow process that could be engineered to benefit #society.
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Aristilde Lab @ Northwestern Engineering
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Article in Chicago Sun Times @SunTimes covers @AristildeLab research on plastic-eating #bacteria, #plastic pollution, discussions with Prof Aristilde as a #Haitian-American scholar navigating life inside and outside of #academia. @NorthwesternU @NUSynBio.
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Aristilde Lab @ Northwestern Engineering
9 months
Official announcement!.
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Environmental Science & Technology Journals
9 months
.@AristildeLab of @cee_nwu @NorthwesternEng @NorthwesternU demonstrate that C. testosteroni constitutively produces a #Hydrolase that can facilitate hydrolysis of #PolyethyleneTerephthalate oligomers & the fragmentation of PET pellets. #OpenAccess ES&T:
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Aristilde Lab @ Northwestern Engineering
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RT @TwistBioscience: Comamonas testosteroni can digest PET plastic, and a key enzyme responsible for breaking down the plastic materials ha….
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Aristilde Lab @ Northwestern Engineering
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Check out @NorthwesternEng feature on @AristildeLab research published yesterday in @EnvSciTech on #plastic-eating enzymes identified in a #wastewater #bacterium.
@NorthwesternEng
Northwestern Engineering
9 months
Professor Ludmilla Aristilde’s discovery of how cells of a Comamonas bacterium break down plastic for food opens new possibilities for developing bacteria-based engineering solutions to help clean up difficult-to-remove plastic waste.
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Aristilde Lab @ Northwestern Engineering
9 months
Link to @EnvSciTech publication: .
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Aristilde Lab @ Northwestern Engineering
9 months
Northwestern News covers new @AristildeLab research published in @EnvSciTech on mechanisms and enzymes used by a #wastewater #bacterium to break down #plastics and use it as a food source. See link: @NorthwesternU @NorthwesternEng @NUSynBio @cee_nwu @NSF
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Aristilde Lab @ Northwestern Engineering
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Can wastewater bacteria provide solutions to the plastics problem? Just out today new @AristildeLab study unraveling how #wastewater Comamonas #bacteria break down PET #plastics into #nanoplastics and ultimately digestible #carbons.
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Aristilde Lab @ Northwestern Engineering
9 months
Pretty cool!.
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Pablo Iván Nikel @pabnik.bsky.social
10 months
A versatile #microbial platform as a tunable whole-cell #chemical #sensor | #Pseudomonas putida engineered to detect a variety of molecules (including #sensing #plastic #degradation) by @Javi_HernanSan @Daniel__Volke et al. @LabNikel @DTUBiosustain.
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