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Journal Club IV

November 18, 2022, 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

The UBC Cluster for Microplastics, Health and the Environment organizes Journal Clubs for students and post-docs.

The next event takes place on 18th November from 3 to 4 pm in person in room 420 in AERL (Vancouver campus) or online on Zoom.

Karly McMullen from Juan José Alava's group will present a paper on " Sampling, isolating and identifying microplastics ingested by fish and invertebrates” by Lusher et al. (2017).

Karly will only focus on the following sections: 2.2.3. Digestion, 2.2.4. Density Separation, and 3.2. Effective Plastic Isolation. She thinks the paper is relevant to our group because as we explore microplastics' impacts on organisms and the environment, either in lab or in the field, we need to use digestion techniques to uncover ingested microplastics, but still there are many limitations and caveats to consider depending on what digestion agents are used. These limitations may impact results which ultimately feed into the social realm of plastic pollution and policy making.

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Microplastics, Health and the Environment

Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver is a joint initiative of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver and the Vice-President, Research and Innovation. Funding support for the clusters is provided by Academic Excellence Funds – UBC Vancouver.

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