Emna Zeghal
Linked news
Thursday 06 April 2023
Lauded microbiologist Jill Banfield visits NIOZ
Earth scientist Professor Jill Banfield of the University of California at Berkeley received the Van Leeuwenhoek Medal yesterday, during the annual meeting of the Royal Dutch Society for Microbiology. This award for influential (micro)biologists has…
Wednesday 11 January 2023
Sunlight pulps the plastic soup
UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces. Floating microplastic is broken down into ever smaller, invisible nanoplastic particles that spread across the entire water column, but also to compounds that can then be…
Linked blogs
Wednesday 11 November 2020
NIOZ@SEA | Cruise 64PE480: In search of Atlantic Nanoplastic
The overall goal of the cruise is to determine the total amount of plastic (macro, micro and nano) along a transect from the Azores through the N-Atlantic subtropical gyre and then towards the European shelf, English Channel and S-North Sea. The…
NIOZ publications
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2024
Goudriaan, M.; Zeghal, E.; Witte, H.J.; Vaksmaa, A.; Niemann, H. (2024). Differentiation of bacterial communities on five common plastics after six days of exposure to Caribbean coastal waters. Environmental Advances 16: 100518. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envadv.2024.100518
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2023
Delre, A.; Goudriaan, M.; Hernando-Morales, V.; Vaksmaa, A.; Ndhlovu, R.T.; Baas, M.; Keijzer, E.; de Groot, T.; Zeghal, E.; Egger, M.; Röckmann, T.; Niemann, H. (2023). Plastic photodegradation under simulated marine conditions. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 187: 114544. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114544Vaksmaa, A.; Guerrero-Cruz, S.; Ghosh, P.; Zeghal, E.; Hernando-Morales, V.; Niemann, H. (2023). Role of fungi in bioremediation of emerging pollutants. Front. Mar. Sci. 10: 1070905. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1070905
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2021
Vaksmaa, A.; Hernando-Morales, V.; Zeghal, E.; Niemann, H. (2021). Microbial degradation of marine plastics: current state and future prospects, in: Joshi, S.J. et al. Biotechnology for sustainable environment. pp. 111-154. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1955-7_5Zeghal, E.; Vaksmaa, A.; Vielfaure, H.; Boekhout, T.; Niemann, H. (2021). The potential role of marine fungi in plastic degradation – A Review. Front. Mar. Sci. 8: 738877. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.738877
