{"id":790,"date":"2018-11-06T12:54:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T12:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/?p=790"},"modified":"2018-11-06T13:15:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T13:15:09","slug":"790","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"Open Microplastics in Soil Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-792\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMUS_sapiens_Luzern-1024x638.jpg\" alt=\"Picture by Chris Obrist\" width=\"299\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMUS_sapiens_Luzern-1024x638.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMUS_sapiens_Luzern-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMUS_sapiens_Luzern-768x478.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/wp-content\/uploads\/HUMUS_sapiens_Luzern.jpg 1090w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ptwist.eu\/\">PlasticTwist<\/a> European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Project, GaudiLabs invited <a href=\"https:\/\/wemakeit.com\/projects\/humus-sapiens\"> <span class=\"st\">HUMUS sapiens<\/span><\/a> for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackteria.org\/wiki\/HUMUS.Sapiens_on_TOUR\">open research session<\/a> on micro-plastics in the soil. With Julian Chollet and Josephine Blersch from the <a href=\"https:\/\/mikrobiomik.org\/\">mikroBIOMIK<\/a> society we turned the <a href=\"http:\/\/fablab-luzern.ch\/mikroplastic\/\">FabLab Luzern<\/a> into a DIY research lab and analyzed soil sample with self made centrifuges, filters and fluorescent microscopes. A walk in the newly reconditioned recreational area on the Lucerne Allmende made us realize the extend of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umsicht.fraunhofer.de\/de\/forschung-fuer-den-markt\/mikroplastik.html\">the problem<\/a>. Finally, collected samples were scanned using a hacked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackteria.org\/wiki\/HiSeq2000_-_Next_Level_Hacking#Using_the_HiSeq2000_as_aFluorescent_Scanning_Microscope\">HiSeq Sequencing machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the PlasticTwist European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Project, GaudiLabs invited HUMUS sapiens for an open research session on micro-plastics in the soil. With Julian Chollet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"http:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}