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Celebration Time: Prof. Aristilde Has Received Tenure (November 2018)

Site Manager November 11, 2018 Posts

The group went out to dinner to celebrate the tenure promotion of Prof. Aristilde.

Profile of Prof. Aristilde in Cornell Ezra Alumni Magazine–The mystery of carbon recycling (April 2018)

Site Manager June 19, 2018 Posts

Prof. Aristilde was recently featured in the Cornell Alumni Magazine: The Mystery of Carbon Recycling.

March 2025: Aristilde Lab research is featured in Northwestern News: “Unlocking phosphorus to fuel plant growth”.
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February 2025: Aristilde Lab research is featured in Science News Explores: “Some bacteria in wastewater can break down a common plastic”.
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February 2025: Aristilde Lab research is featured in The Daily Northwestern: “Aristilde Lab publishes discoveries about plastic-eating bacteria, soil “.
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Feburary 2025: Just accepted manuscript in Green Chemistry. Led by the Angenent Lab of the University of Tuebingen in Germany. Postdoc Dr Nanqing Zhou of the Aristilde Lab contributed to this collaborative work. </span style=”color: #000000;”>
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Feburary 2025: Just accepted manuscript in Environmental Science and Technology. Led by former PhD student Dr Jade Basinski, with contributions from current PhD student Aurore Niyitanga Manzi, current postdoc Dr Nasrin Naderi Beni, former undergraduate researchers Marcos Sanchez and Cynthia Cheng, and former postdoc Dr Wiriya Thongsomboon.</span style=”color: #000000;”>
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December 2024: Ph.D. student Jade Basinski sucesssfully defends her thesis, “Elucidating Iron Oxide-Catalyzed Phosphorus Recycling from Nucleotides by Combining Multiple Spectroscopic Analyses with Molecular Simulations”. Congratulations Dr. Basinski!.
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December 2024: Prof Aristilde is featured in Northwestern McCormmick Engineering Magazine: “Soil Secrets”.
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October 2024: Live Interview with Prof. Aristilde on WGN News Chicago: “Research into Reducing Plastic Pollution”.
October 2024: The Chicago Sun Times features Prof Aristilde and Aristilde group members: “At this Northwestern professor’s lab, plastic-eating microbes show promise to gobble up microplastics in nature”.
October 2024: The Washington Post interviews Prof Aristilde and Aristilde group members on their recent publication in Environmental Science and Technology: “Plastic-eating bacteria could combat pollution problems, scientists hope”.
October 2024: ACS Science Releases on recent publication in Environmental Science and Technology: “Plastic-eating enzyme identified in wastewater microbes”.
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October 2024: Northwestern University News on recent publication in Environmental Science and Technology: “Wastewater bacteria can break down plastic for food”.
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September 2024: Just accepted manuscript in Environmental Science and Technology. Co-first authored by postdocs Dr Rebecca Wilkes and Dr Nanqing Zhou, with contributions from several group members: graduate researchers Ojaswi Aryal, Rebecca Wilson, and Arushi Kapoor; undergrad researchers Kelly Teitel and Edgar Castaneda.
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September 2024: We welcome Dominique Kelly as a new PhD student, co-advised with Prof. Magdalena Osburn. Dominique is interested on the mechanisms of microbial adaptation to nutrient stress.
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September 2024: We welcome Parker Deptula as a new PhD student, co-advised with Prof. George Wells. Parker is interested on optimizing engineered systems for carbon and nutrient recovery.
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July 2024: ACS Chemical and Engineering News Magazine covers 8-year journey of Prof. Aristilde and her team on uncovering a missing piece in the phosphorus cycle: “Natural minerals catalyze phosphorus cycling”.
July 2024: Northwestern University News on recent publication in Nature Communications: “Minerals Play Newly Discovered Role in Earth’s Phosphorus Cycle”.
July 2024: New article in Nature Communications. Led by PhD student Jade Basinski and contributions from former postdocs Dr Annaleise Klein and Dr Wiriya Thomgsonboon. Collaboration from the Greg Druschnel’s lab (Indiana University) and Aaron Thompson’s lab (University of Georgia).
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July 2024: Just accepted article in Environmental Science and Technology Letters. Collaborative research led by Matthew Reid’s Lab from Cornell University.
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July 2024: We welcome Cara Flynn, our newest PhD student, who will be working the biochemistry of plastic recycling. Welcome Cara!.
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July 2024: We welcome back Rebecca, graduate M.S. student and now our newest research assistant, who will be working the metabolomics of nutrient deficiency in agricultural soils. Welcome back Rebecca!.
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June 2024: We welcome Maggie Schneider, DeFeO undergraduate fellow, who will be conducting research enzymes in nutrient cycling. Welcome Maggie!.
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June 2024: We welcome James Belgrave, SynBio REU student for the summer, who is working on bacterial conversion of lignin compounds. Welcome James!.
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June 2024: Just published article in Nature Communications. Led by Dr Ashty Karim of the Northwestern Center for Synthetic Biology and Prof. Julius Lucks of the Lucks Lab of Northwestern Chemical and Biological Engineering.
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June 2024: Northwestern University News on recent publication in Environmental Science and Technology: “Soil Bacteria Expel More CO2 after Eating Non-Sugar Carbons”.
May 2024: Just accepted manuscript in Environmental Science and Technology. Led by graduated PhD student Dr Caroll Mendonca, with collaboration from the Waldbauer lab at the University of Chicago.
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May 2024: Just accepted manuscript in Environmental Chemistry Letters. Led by former postdoc Dr Annaleise Klein and current PhD Students Jade Basinski and Aurore Niyitanga Manzi, with contributions from undergraduate researchers Cynthia Cheng and Marcos Sanchez, and former postdoc Dr Wiriya Thongsomboon..
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February 2024: Local news TV, CBS News-Chicago, highlights our new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: “Secrets in the soil: how earth below us might help fight climate change”.
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February 2024: New article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Led by PhD student Jiaxing Wang and co-author contribution from undergraduate researcher Rebecca Wilson.
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February 2024: French magazine Mediapart covers upcoming article to be published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: “Des molécules révèlent le secret des sols pour piéger le carbone”.
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February 2024: Northwestern University News features upcoming article to be published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: “Understanding how soil traps carbon”.
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January 2024: We welcome Dr Benjamin Barrios Cerda as our newest postdoctoral researcher. Dr Cerda will be working on figuring out mecahnisms of catalytic reactions at mineral interfaces. Welcome Benjamin!.
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December 2023: Just accepted manuscript in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Led by the Orphan Lab at the California Institute of Technology.
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September 2023: Just accepted manuscript to iScience. Led by the Molitor and Agenent Labs at the University of Tuebingen (Germany).
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July 2023: Just accepted manuscript to The ISME Journal. Led by the Russell Lab at Drexel University.
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July 2023: We welcome new postdoc Dr Nasrin Naderi Beni who completed her PhD at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Nasrin will be working on the surface chemistry of plastics degradation. Welcome Nasrin!.
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July 2023: We welcome new undergraduate researcher Lynna Deng. Lynna will be working on bacterial carbon metabolism of plastics products. Welcome Lynna!.
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July 2023: We welcome new undergraduate researcher Marcos Sanchez. Marcos will be working on mineral catalysis. Welcome Marcos!.
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July 2023: We welcome new high-school student intern Rohan Sharma. Rohan will be working on molecular modeling of biopolymer structures. Welcome Rohan!.
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February 2023: New article published in Nature Chemical Biology. Led by PhD student Rebecca Wilkes.
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December 2022: We welcome high-school student intern, Tyler Alexander, to the team. Welcome Tyler!.
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November 2022: We welcome new postdoc Dr Pandeeswari Jeeva to the team. Dr Jeeva will work on new carbon assimilation pathways in environmental bacteria of biotechnological relevance. Welcome Pandeeswari!.
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November 2022: Professor Aristilde presented at her graduate alma mater, UC-Berkeley, in the CEE department.
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October 2022: Professor Aristilde visited Dr Jasquelin Pena at UC-Davis and presented at the CEE seminar. .
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October 2022: New article published in Environmental Science and Technology.
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July 2022: New article published in Water Research.
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June 2022: Undergraduate researcher Allison Spring presents her undergraduate honors thesis “Diffusion and Interactions of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons at Water-Nanoplastics Interfaces: A Molecular Modeling Investigation”. Congratulations Allison! .
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June 2022: We welcome new postdoc Dr Nanqing Zhou who just completed her PhD in Clara Chan’s Lab at the University of Delaware. Nanqing will be learning isotope-assisted metabolomics to study novel metabolic pathways for biotechnology in soil bacteria.
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June 2022: New article published in Journal of Applied Microbiology.
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May 2022: Congratulations to undergraduate researcher Allison Spring for being admitted to the prestigious ERASMUS+ program to pursue her M.S. studies in the European Union..
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March 2022: Prof. Aristilde visits Pablo Nikel Research Group at Nordisk Research Foundation in Copenhagen, Denmark and presents “Multi-Omics Investigation of Carbon Flux Networks in Environmental Bacteria of Biotechnological Relevance“..
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March 2022: Congratulations to Postdoc Dr Bahareh Hassanpour who is about to start as Assitant Professor in the Department of Plant and Earth Science at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls..
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January 2022: Prof. Aristilde gives talk on “Multi-Omics Investigation of Carbon Flux Networks in Bacteria with Biotechnological Relevance” to the Lars Angenent Research Group at the University of Tuebingen (Germany)..
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January 2022: Prof. Aristilde starts her 6-month academic (sabbatical) leave at the University of Tuebingen in Tuebingen, Germany as a Bessel research fellow sponsored by the Alexander Humboldt Foundation..
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Celebration Time: Prof. Aristilde Has Received Tenure (November 2018)

Profile of Prof. Aristilde in Cornell Ezra Alumni Magazine–The mystery of carbon recycling (April 2018)

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