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SUMMARY:EESS talk on "Microbial enzymatic interactions with fluorinated co
 ntaminants "
DTSTART:20251014T121500
DTEND:20251014T131500
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Serina L. Robinson\, Eawag\nAbstract:\nThe use of fluori
 nated compounds is widespread\, with fluorine present in over 50% of agroc
 hemicals and 25% of pharmaceuticals. Many of these substances persist in a
 nd contaminate the environment after their use. Despite the exceptional st
 ability of the carbon-fluorine bond\, microbial enzymes capable of transfo
 rming fluorinated compounds are known\, and more are being discovered. How
 ever\, accurately identifying these enzymes and their associated biotransf
 ormation pathways directly from microbiome sequencing data remains a chall
 enge. This talk will focus on my group’s research identifying and engine
 ering of microbial enzymes that interact with fluorinated compounds and tr
 aining predictive models to learn molecular features driving these interac
 tions. This aids future prediction of contaminant biotransformation potent
 ial from microbiome data and advances our understanding of microbial inter
 actions with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).\n\n\n\nBiography:
 \nSerina L. Robinson is a group leader in the Department of Environmental 
 Microbiology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technol
 ogy (Eawag) where her group investigates how microbes contribute to the tr
 ansformation of chemical contaminants in the environment. Previously\, sh
 e was an ETH Zurich postdoctoral fellow advised by Prof. Dr. Jörn Piel. S
 he obtained her PhD in Microbiology and MSc in Bioinformatics and Computat
 ional Biology from the University of Minnesota\, Minneapolis\, USA (adviso
 r: Larry Wackett).\n 
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