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Dec 31, 2020

Meet the Researcher: Rabeya Tahir

Meet the researcher, Rabeya Tahir. She is a new addition to the amazing Delftia team. She is helping with the WikiEdu course and trying to produce some graphics. She is focusing on Delftia regarding bioremediation and electronic waste recycling.  Rabeya is from Long Island, New York, but has been living in Charlotte, NC for several…

Sep 1, 2020

Annotation Focus: Recovering E-Waste

Every year up to 50 million tons of electronics are discarded. Only 12% are properly recycled (source). Although recycling is feasible, current methods are costly and energy-intensive. Lacking a proper way to dispose of electronics, we face an ever-growing mountain of e-waste associated problems.   The difficulty with recycling e-waste originates in the myriad of…

Aug 20, 2020

Findings: Iron Interactions

Join our discussions and help us discover more about Delftia! Instructions and invitation are available here. Iron is essential for bacterial survival–it is the most common redox active metal found in proteins. These proteins are needed for essential processes such as respiration, central metabolism, and DNA repair (Frawley 2015). This week, we investigated how iron affects…

Aug 18, 2020

Weekly Topic: Ideal Environment

Join us weekly to read and learn about Delftia topics! As a way to spark conversation and initiate discovery, we present weekly questions about Delftia and its many characteristics and abilities! We hope to explore the unknown about this mysterious bacteria and will be using these questions to guide our conversations about the literature. If you haven’t annotated with…

Jun 7, 2020

There’s gold in the ocean, but how do we get it?

The National Ocean Service reports that the ocean contains 20 million tons of gold. But there are no efficient methods to extract it. A few seem to disagree. A pastor and a diver stole thousands from investors. A Nobel prize winner misses a decimal point. What else could go wrong?   In 1872, British chemist…