Saskia Schmidt, PhD candidate in the Cell Biology and In vitro Toxicology Lab, is visiting the group of Prof. Dr. Peter Loskill at the MicroorganoLab in Tübingen for a four month work project.
We are facing a growing issue of pollution caused by microplastics in the air, water, and soil, highlighting the need for robust analytical methods to handle this problem. Microplastics are categorized as macro-, micro-, and nanoplastics, originating from primary sources (such as manufactured micro-sized plastics in cosmetics) and secondary sources…