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Sean Nash

Regeneron ISEF 2023 - Finalist Project Portal - 0 views

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shared by Sean Nash on 11 Jun 24 - No Cached
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      Sean Nash on 11 Jun 24
       
      This is a really good way to dive into specific categories and explore the projects that made it to this year's ISEF. What I would do is start with what immediately interests you for now... and pick up some tips. You might get ideas for areas/topics to research. You might see creative methods used in various studies. Pay particular attention to the fact that some utilize equipment only available at a university or corporate lab, but... many also feature creative methods done by students at home or in school labs as well! Once you get inside projects that you get ideas from, feel free to save them in Diigo for later, or share really interesting ones with others you think might benefit from seeing it. One final thing: you might also get some tips for elements of their presentation that appeal to you.
  • Sean Nash on 11 Jun 24
     
    This is a digital version of a fair- almost like being there
emmarrogers

Biodegradation of polyethylene by the marine fungus Parengyodontium album - ScienceDirect - 1 views

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HSR HSR-2025 behavior biology environmental potential research idea botany

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  • UV light
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      emmarrogers on 04 Jun 24
       
      If we were to use X or Gamma rays, would that speed up the process?
  • Graphical abstract
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      emmarrogers on 04 Jun 24
       
      Why does it need the 9 day incubation period? Could we lower that
    • emmarrogers
      emmarrogers on 04 Jun 24
       
      So, could we just do this with a plastic bottle?
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  • Other important plastic types afloat in the sea are polypropylene (PP) and to a lesser degree polystyrene (PS) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
    • emmarrogers
      emmarrogers on 04 Jun 24
       
      Does/ Could this fungi degrade these as well
  • Zalerion maritimum (Paço et al., 2017), Alternaria alternata FB1 (Gao et al., 2022) and Rhodotorula mucilaginosa (Vaksmaa et al., 2023a), while Cladosporium halotolerans 6UPA1 was shown to degrade PUR (Zhang et al., 2022).
  • Sean Nash on 05 Jun 24
     
    Strange.... when I go to this article, I can see your highlights, but I cannot see your comments. Usually, when I can see those, I can comment back right there as opposed to saving it myself. Grrrr...
  • Sean Nash on 05 Jun 24
     
    Super interesting topic (I saw this one last week). The work with isotopes they did here is well beyond feasibility for us, but that doesn't mean there isn't something here that could be done. You'd have to work through the set up of marine environments (tanks) and acquisition of these fungal strains. I'm betting the one they recently recovered from biofilm on plastic trash in the ocean would be super difficult to get our hands on, but they do mention several others that have previously been found to degrade plastics. perhaps those are more easily obtained. (?) Degredation fo plastic by microbes is EXACTLY what the cheater-guy did in lasy year's winning ISEF project, but like this article says, most of this work has been done with bacteria, not eukaryotic organisms like fungi. I also thing the area of biofilms is super interesting. The analysis (beyond weighing the plastic pre/post) is rather instrumental and that might be difficult depending upon our ability to find someone to help us analyze instrumentally. I like the idea, but feasibility is unknown at the moment. You might want to keep reading down this area. It is certainly interesting and important. Keep an eye on feasibility as you go forward.
Kylie John

The Unexpected Villain in Plant-Based Diets - 3 views

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  • Sean Nash on 01 Jul 24
     
    Love this topic... but it would be a tough one. Look up "ISEF rules - vertebrate animals" to get an idea of how hard it is to get an vertebrate animal study approved where you are altering a diet in a way that includes feeding something suspected of having issues to animals. It isn't impossible, but it is very difficult. Often, we just shift down to an invertebrate animal. However, in this case, I don't think the variable of processed plant dietary items would transfer as well to non-vertebrate animals. And yet, I could be convinced otherwise if you can show me some other work done that says we might be able to gain worthwhile information from a study like that.
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