Have you heard people talking about nurdles? Nurdles are tiny plastic pellets used as the raw material to make almost everything plastic, and they are washing up on shorelines, floating down rivers, and accumulating in lakes and along railroads? The pellets are made and stored in large silos, then blown into railcars, trucks, or put in Gaylord sacks or large bags where they are shipped all over the country, and world. The nurdles are small and light weight, which makes them hard to contain. When loading and offloading the nurdles, they can fall out on the ground. During transportation
One year ago, Mission-Aransas Reserve wanted to monitor the movement of nurdles (plastic pellets) around the beaches of the Texas Coastal Bend after a spill of nurdles was found in late September 2018. The goal was to see how far the nurdles had spread, how long the nurdles would be around, and removing the pellets from the beach so animals could not eat them. The interest to monitor the nurdles by citizens was so great, that groups in every state, and Mexico, along the Gulf started conducting 10 minute surveys to document nurdle concentrations along shorelines. One year later there
Our Undergraduate Research Assistant, Zubia, is graduating this December! She has been part of the Cambronne lab since the very beginning and has been a great asset to the team. After graduation, Zubia plans to attend UT's Pharmacy school. We will miss her and wish her all the best in her future endeavors! Read more about conGRADulations Zubia!
Come chat with the directors for each of the cores from the Center for Biomedical Research Support, coffee and cookies provided. Learn all about services in Microscopy & FACS, GSAF, Proteomics, Mouse Transgenics, Supply Store, Electronics, Molecular structure, and Mass Spec.
The 10X Seminar will be held tomorrow Nov. 19th in BME 3.204 at 4 PM. The seminar will cover 10X applications including their new Visium product line, Spatial Transcriptomics.
