Interactions of Particles with Biota
While the ECAM group is not an (eco)toxicology lab, we have strong and close interactions with ecotoxicologists and biolgoists to understand the fate and impacts of particles (nanoplastics, microplastics, natural and engineered nanopartilces) with living systems. With this cross-disciplenary work, we bring our understanding of particle chemistry and analytical tools to better assess particle behavior in a range of context.
Select projects in this research line
- Uptake and impacts of nanoplastic with external pageplants
- Uptake and impacts of nano- and microplastics with a wide range of organisms, including external pageearthworms, external pagegammarus, external pageoysters, snails and external pagemulti- generational studies with daphnia
- Impacts of nano- and microplastic on biofilm formation, periphyton fitness and external pagetrophic transfer
- Translocation of nanoplastics across external pagefish intestines and body distribution of external pagenanoplastics in trout
- Nanoplastic interactions with cells, influencing external pagecellular signaling and cell viability
- external pageBiotrubation of nanoplastics in soil by earthworms
Changes in particle size 1) influences the physical chemistry and mobility of particles (colored blue) and 2) changes the biodistribution of particles and their responses with organisms/cells (colored green)