"Maus-Türöffner-Tag 2021"
On Sunday 3rd October 2021 the University of Bayreuth will host pre-school and primary school children and offer experiments and hands-on experience! Would you like to know more about microplastics? You can experiment, puzzle and research with us! ...more
101 Years Macromolecular Chemistry
On 13 and 14 Sep 2021, the digital celebration event 101 Years of Macromolecular Chemistry will take place. We are looking forward to being part of the Collaborative Research Centre - Special Session part and to the posters of Anika Mauel (P29) and Thomas Witzmann (P21) ! ...more
Write it Right - Workshop
Communicating your results effectively is important. Scientists want to get their work published, read, understood and noticed! That's why our next writing workshop taking place on 7-8th September 2021 is already fully booked! ...more
New CRC 1357 Publication
The paper „Noxic Effects of Polystyrene Microparticles on Murine Macrophages and Epithelial Cells” pictures different particle-cell interactions for different cell lines and the therefore resulting possible noxic effects which are highly correlated to the number of MPP found in the cells. ...more
Bayreuth BlitzBlank - We Cleanup!
On 18 September 2021 is the World Cleanup Day! Visit the Collaborative Research Centre Microplastics and the "Hamsterbacke" and take part in "Bayreuth BlitzBlank". We are looking forward to discuss with you between 10:00 and 16:00 the pros and cons of plastics and our favourite topic microplastics. ...more
Bayreuth Polymer Symposium 2021
At the BPS21 on 20.09.2021, international scientists from the polymer, colloid and material sciences will meet. This year for the first time online but as always with exciting speakers and talks! ...more
New CRC 1357 Publication
How do microplastic surfaces affect soil fungal communities? Evidence for a selection of pathogens in the plastisphere was just published by C04 in Scientific Reports: "Microplastics accumulate fungal pathogens in terrestrial ecosystems". ...more
New video in our media library
Christian Laforsch got many exciting questions about microplastics at the 11th science talk of the MINT Academy of the Bertechsgadener Land Student Research Centre. For all that missed this science talk you can find the video in our media library. ...more
New CRC 1357 Publication
Hollow rhodoliths gouged by the bivalve Hiatella arctica were collected at the northern coast of Spitsbergen in water depths of 40 and 27 meters. All bivalves were contaminated with microplastics and their polymer composition and abundance differed strongly between the water depths. ...more
New CRC 1357 Publication
Why does long-term exposure of water fleas with microplastics lead to a reduction of fitness, body size and number of offspring? The downregulation of digestive and essential proteins might be an important reason. Congratulations A01 Team for this new article in Science of the Total Environment! ...more
New CRC 1357 Publication
How do microplastic particles bind to cells? With blinking optical tweezers, the mechanics of the binding process can be understood. Congratulations to Holger Kress and his colleagues who have now published this method in the Biophysical Journal. The article is accessible free of charge for 50 days! ...more
New CRC 1357 Publication
B06 and B04 have published their successful interdisciplinary collaboration in the journal Microplastics and Nanoplastics: "Tracing the horizontal transport of microplastics on rough surfaces".They investigated whether and how PMMA microplastic particles are transported horizontally on fine and coarse sandy surfaces. ...more
Contribution "Growing Plastics" in AWE International Magazine
A joint popular science article on microplastics in agricultural soils by Julia Möller, Martin Löder, Ruth Freitag, Eva Lehndorff, Tillmann Lüders and Christian Laforsch. ...more
