Interesting paper today presented Bronwyn Laycock at our inuargral journal club meeting doi.org/10.1002/rcm.90…

Happy International women's day! A big shout out to PhD student Tracey Read who spoke on a panel @emmanuelcollegeuq with 4 other women for #internationalwomensday. They discussed how we can all support each other & move forward with equity #embraceequity #phdjourney #lifejourney

Thank-you to our new postdoctoral fellows Dr Katrin Kockler and Dr Ian Levett for facinating seminars on their career journey, and great to hear about our visiting intern, Rogerio Vieira's PhD project - great way to kick off our seminar series!

Looks like the Kariya High School students who visited the Centre for Bioplastics, and School of Chemical Engineering had a great day learning about #bioplastic and with PhD student Tracey Read and Dr Clement Chan

Great to see #QUT increasing their HDR stipend to $32,500 next year - nearly as good as our ARC stipend rates! qut.edu.au/study/fees-and…

Congratulations to CI Adrian Oehman for his successful #ARC Linkage grant using a novel biofilm-based approach for cost-effective drinking water treatment production via a simple retrofit of existing processes. Well done!

Congratulations to CI Laleh Moghaddam for her success in being awarded an ARC Linkage grant to develop technologies that economically convert agricultural wastes to crude-oils to produce bio-based resins, adhesives and polyurethane. Well done!

Plastic waste management requires a holistic approach. See this article highlighting the urgency - but also consider the role new bioplastics can play to help address the plastic pollution problem, by offering functional performance, without the legacy bit.ly/3FHAutW

Congrats to Laleh Moghaddam, Marguerite Renouf and Pete Halley for the success of the #qut led #ARC Linkage grant building on our work with Licella. Also to Adrian Oehmen for his #UQ Linkage on biofilm-based solutions for cost-effective high-quality drinking H20. Well done!

Check out our Clement Chan's interview this morning 8:35 am on ABC Southern Qld talking about plastic recycling here (don't forget to take off your lids!) ~1:58:00 time bit.ly/3LW8Ihi

Very excited to welcome our first 'new' PhD students to the Centre. Welcome Hannah, Aphra, Sumheda and Caitlin. Looking forward to the diverse range of skills and expertise that you will contribute to the Centre, and supporting you through your PhD journey

Great journal club discussion today lead by ECR Clement Chan about citizen science and home composting frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

It's nearly easter break! First trip for our new PhD cohort to "the vill" for lunch - led by the irrepressible Pete Halley

Our PhD student Tracey Read, cofounder of Plastic free seas plasticfreeseas.org, gave a great interview yesterday on Hong Kong radio about her epic field trial measuring bioplastic degradation in water - watch via facebook fb.watch/k85WsJfXNB/

Great day today with our new PhD students - meeting new QUT student Sewwandi via the city cat and learning about IP and project management with Bronwyn Laycock, Steven Pratt and Clement Chan

We were proud to host Dr Marcus Gover, visiting from Minderoo and part of our Stragic Advisor Board member. Insightful conversations about the UN Plastic treaty, the need for circular solutions and the important role the public plays in recycling rates.

Excited to see our article about the Centre research out in the Chemistry in Australia magazine - a great read if we do say so ourselves... chemaust.raci.org.au/article/june-a…

Congratulations to Kathryn Fairfull-Smith on her article that finds the modification of antibiotics with a dispersal agent is a promising approach for eradicating MRSA biofilms and overcoming antibiotic resistance associated with the biofilm mode of growth doi.org/10.1021/acs.mo…

Interesting Nature commentary: The world’s plan to make humanity sustainable is failing. Science can do more to save it nature.com/articles/d4158…