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  • January 2026: New article in Environmental Science and Technologys. Led by Na Wei’s group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with contributions from the Aristilde Lab.
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  • December 2025: Aristilde Lab research is featured in Northwestern Engineering News: “Iron minerals’ hidden chemistry explains how soils trap carbon”.
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  • November 2025: Aristilde Lab research is featured in Northwestern Engineering News: “How Bacteria Use Enzymes to Direct Carbon Traffic for Energy and Useful Chemicals”.
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  • November 2025: New article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Led by postdoc Dr Nanqing Zhou, with contribution former PhD student Dr Caroll Mendonca, current PhD student Norah Chen, and former undergraduate researcher Kelly Teitel.
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  • November 2025: Just accepted manuscript in Environmental Science and Technology. Led by former PhD student Dr Jiaxing Wang, with contribution from postdoc Dr Barrios-Cerda.
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  • November 2025: We welcome new postdoctoral researcher Dr Tim Csernica (PhD Chemistry, Caltech) who will be studying natural organic matter chemistry and carbon cycling by microbes and plants. Welcome Tim!
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  • November 2025: We welcome new postdoctoral researcher Dr Jiaxing Wang (PhD Environmental Engineering, Northwestern) who will be working on mineral-catalyzed organic matter transformations. Welcome back Jiaxing!
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  • September 2025: Just accepted manuscript in Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Led by the National Renewable Energy Lab, with contributions from the Aristilde Lab.
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  • September 2025: Aristilde Lab research is featured in Northwestern Now: “Bacteria rewire digestive systems to turn plant waste into power”.
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  • August 2025: New article in Communications Biology. Led by postdoc Dr Nanqing Zhou, and contributions from PhD student Norah Chen and undergraduate researcher Kelly Teitel. This work in collaboration with National Renewable Energy Lab and the Proteomics facility at University of Delaware.
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  • August 2025: Aristilde Lab research is featured in Northwestern Now: “How organic matter traps water in soil — even in the driest conditions”.
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  • August 2025: Just accepted manuscript in PNAS Nexus. Led by former PhD student Dr Sabrina Kelch of the Aristilde Lab, with collaborative contributions from current postdoc Dr Barrios-Cerda and former technician Yeonsoo Park.
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  • July 2025: Ph.D. student Jiaxing Wang sucesssfully defends his thesis, “Molecular-level Insights into the Adsorption of Low-Molecular-Weight Biomolecules at Water–Mineral Interfaces”. Congratulations Dr. Wang!.
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  • June 2025: Just accepted manuscript in ACS Synthetic Biology. Led by postdoc Dr Rebecca Wilkes under the guidance of Dr Allison Werner and Dr Gregg Beckham at the National Renewable Energy Lab..
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  • 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.
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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.
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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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