Grants and residencies Research FT, dosentti Taipale Sami and working group (BIOTRANS) 307600 € Members of the group Recipients of monthly grants:Doc Ph, Litmanen Jaakko, Vesamäki Jussi, Rigaud Cyril Other Members of the team: Kukkonen Jussi, Peltomaa Elina, Tiirola Marja Grant year 2019 Share: Back to Grants listing Superfood from microplastics? – Microbial degradation of microplastics and biotransformation into essential biomolecules Tieteellinen tutkimus / siihen pohjautuva työ | Nelivuotinen Microplastics (MP) has become of greatest environmental concern since relatively high quantities of MPs has been found from ocean and lakes, however, the fate of the MP carbon in microbial and pelagic food webs at biomolecule level is still unclear. In the BIOTRANS project we focus on the biodegradation and biotransformation of the three most common plastics by using 13C-labelled materials, metabolomics, metatranscriptomic analysis and compound specific stable isotope analysis. This project will generate new approaches for studying degradation and utilization of recalcitrant compounds in the environmental systems, and has a large potential to change our understanding of the fate of MP carbon in the microbial food. Back to Grants listing