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
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
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
Elbe-Expedition 2021: Plastics in our Waters
Our PhD students Teresa Menzel, Nora Meides, Matthias Völkl and Simon Wieland, were allowed to present their research topics on the research and media ship Aldebaran during the Elbe Expedition 2021. You can find more info about their research via this link on the Padlet and "Day 10". ...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
