Rodney Ridley

[AppEnvMicro journal @AppEnvMicro]

⚡️An electrifying start to the New Year! Check out the January issue of AEM, featuring a dynamic cover by artist Ismar Miniel. @TexasCHE and @ut_caee researchers describe the use of microdroplet emulsion sorting to identify new electroactive bacteria⚡️

https://t.co/ibvazbOnYg

[Rodney Ridley @Rodneyridley7]

On my way over to Cambridge for research on breaking down plastics using biocatalysts. If there’s someone in the UK or nearby Europe I should meet let me know 😊
This project stems out of my prev work on global bacteria/plastic interactions-now a collaboration between these shown

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@VeronicaPW @taskett 😆

[Madi Taskett @taskett]

.@Rodneyridley7 researches plastic-degrading bacteria! He's been featured in Scientific Reports. 🧪

In Friday Writing Club he discussed how to:
- research complex ideas
- communicate those ideas to many people

watch📽️:

(ps- join us this Friday: https://t.co/UY2sbuQxyw)

[Rodney Ridley @Rodneyridley7]

Can bacteria really break down plastics in the environment?

Are microplastics or plastic waste in the environment hosting pathogenic microbes?

These are some of the questions we’re trying to answer here.

#plastic #microplastics #environment #metagenomics

[Rodney Ridley @Rodneyridley7]

Why plastics and microbes?
An overview post for the recently released @SciReports article

⁃Although plastics are manmade, their chemistry is (fairly) similar to natural biopolymers in wood or beeswax 🪵
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- To read this work, you can visit: https://t.co/IPqRWcFQPn
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[Rodney Ridley @Rodneyridley7]

Why plastics and microbes?
An overview post for the recently released @SciReports article

⁃Although plastics are manmade, their chemistry is (fairly) similar to natural biopolymers in wood or beeswax 🪵
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[Rodney Ridley @Rodneyridley7]

⁃ We found out that the microbes and enzymes that break down plastic in the environment is different than we’ve understood before. Also, there may be many novel enzymes that can degrade plastic, which are reported in the study.🔬
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This work was completed in the Kostas lab at @GeorgiaTech @GTChBE @gatechengineers

[Rodney Ridley @Rodneyridley7]

🎉My first primary author article was just published in @SciReports - this is the largest global study of plastics and their potenial for microbial degradation across nature.

🛢️We also released a database of the 90+ million genes we analyzed in this work.
https://t.co/0xY0Gv8RCC

[Nature Materials @NatureMaterials]

Chirality-driven topological electronic structure of DNA-like materials

https://t.co/68DDI3nNsh

@WeizmannScience

[Reisner Lab @ReisnerLab]

"Less is more" check out the nature portfolio chemistry community from Prof. Jeremy J. Baumberg and Demelza Wright about our recent work @NatureCatalysis https://t.co/zAMV314XL0

[RSC Energy Journals @RSC_Energy]

Read joint 2020 EES Lectureship winner, Wooyul Kim’s work in @EES_journal ‘A highly active, robust photocatalyst heterogenized in discrete cages of metal–organic polyhedra for CO2 reduction’ (Hyeon Shin Lee et al.) https://t.co/zeuerJ0xOg