POP's Lab at SLU

Last week, Karin Wiberg attended the annual DRICKS meeting where drinking water producers and researchers meet and discuss challenges and research needs, covering the entire process from source to tap. This year’s meeting was in Norrköping, with a strong focus on planning activities for the upcoming program period (2025-2028). As always, it was two great days together with amazing colleagues. Here, Karin is posing with Carolina Vogs (SLU), component leader in the Risk WP and Elin Lavonen (BioCell Analytica and Aalto University, Finland), one of the component leader in her WP (Analytical methods). #DrinkingWater #RawWater #Stakeholders #DRICKS

Check out Björn Bonnet's paper in Environmental Science & Technology on removal of multiple PFAS from stainless steel surfaces, exploring the impact of environmental factors and surfactant concentration. Notably, heated butyl carbitol showed high efficiency in PFAS removal. Using advanced ion beam analysis (ToF-ERD), the team quantified residual fluorine on treated surfaces, providing critical insights for improved decontamination strategies.

Earlier this week, Oksana Golovko was honored to be invited to give a presentation at the Vattenmiljöseminariet (Water Environment Seminar, 22 January 2025 - 23 January 2025, Goteborg), a key event for professionals involved in national and regional environmental monitoring of fresh and saltwater.   The seminar provided a fantastic opportunity to connect, share insights, and learn from each other’s experiences. The program featured the latest results from national and regional monitoring efforts, presentations on new environmental programs, and much more.   In Oksana's words, "I am very happy to have been part of this important event, organized by the Marine Environment Institute on behalf of the Swedish Maritime and Water Management Agency." In the picture (from left to right): Jens Olsson, Ulrika Jansson Klintberg and Oksana Golovko. #Seminar #ScienceDissemination

Last week, we welcomed Sergi Gregorio Lozano, a guest-PhD student from Universitat Jaume I. He'll be with us for 3 months to evaluate the transfer of pharmaceuticals from human urine-based fertilizers to barley crops and their presence in the produced beer working together with Alberto Celma Tirado, Oksana Golovko, and Prithvi Simha within the framework of P2GreeN project. Welcome Sergi! #IntroductionTuesday #PhDstudent #Pharmaceuticals

It was a crispy morning the week before Christmas when Oscar Skirfors and Ioannis Papachristopoulos from the POP's lab went out to harvest the young willow trees being used in a pilot scale phytoremediation system for the treatment of PFAS contaminated groundwater. This pilot is operated as a part of the LIFE SOuRCE project: https://lnkd.in/dETkMhkm

Extextremelt happy news to close 2024! The article lead by Paul Löffler and Foon Yin Lai in collaboration with Beate Escher, Christine Baduel and Marko Virta has been awarded one of the 2023 Environmental Science & Techonology Best Paper Awards. Amazing job of the team on exploring the fate of antimicrobial transformation products, and helping to bridge the knowledge gaps on this highly relevant matter! Big congratulations! #ESTBestPaperAwards #AMR #EnvironmentalResearch

Feeling inspired after attending the Nobel lectures! It was fascinating to learn about the groundbreaking work on artificial neural networks—both their fundamental principles, recognized with the Nobel Prize in Physics, and their applications in protein folding and de novo protein design, rewarded in Chemistry. Excited to see how these techniques will contribute to solving today’s challenges and shape the future. #nobelprize #research #stockholm

Lutz Ahrens visited today the Riksdagen (Swedish Parliament) with Jarmo Spiik (Cleannature) meeting Per-Arne Håkansson to discuss the problematic of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the environment and drinking water. #PFAS #DrinkingWater #Environment #Riksdagen

Antimikrobiella substanser, såsom antibiotika och antivirala läkemedel, är oumbärliga för att bekämpa infektioner hos människor, djur och växter. Men deras effektivitet är hotad. Mikrober utvecklar i allt högre grad resistens, vilket gör dem svårare att kontrollera och behandla. Denna kris, känd som antimikrobiell resistens (AMR), har blivit ett akut globalt hälsoproblem. På Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU) arbetar forskare för att förstå och minska denna utveckling. Genom ett "One Health"-perspektiv – som lyfter fram sambandet mellan hälsa för människor, djur, växter och vår miljö – undersöker vi hur AMR sprids.  Lektor Foon Yoin Lai och hennes forskarteam på SLU har ett särskilt fokus på AMR i vattenmiljöer. De undersöker hur dessa ämnen sprids från avloppsvatten till grundvatten och vilken roll nedbrytningsprodukter kan spela i vattenekosystem. Deras mål? Att utöka vår förståelse för hur vi kan bromsa utvecklingen av antimikrobiell resistens för att säkra framtidens hälsa och miljö. Vill du veta mer? Våra doktorander Paul och Valentina delar även med sig av sina projekt om AMR och den viktiga roll som vattenmiljöer spelar i att bekämpa resistensutveckling. Här kan du se hela filmen: https://lnkd.in/dC9GzxqX #OneHealth #AntimicrobialResistance #Research #EnvironmentalHealth #SLU #HållbarFramtid #WAAW 

Today our researcher Alina Koch (PhD) and PhD student Nicola Messinger had very nice presentations at the EcotoxicoMic conference about the impact of pesticide residues on aquatic biofilm and the exploration of microbial PFAS degradation in soils. The conference offered a fantastic opportunity for meaningful exchanges and deepening our understanding of environmental challenges through engaging discussions with fellow researchers. #Research #KnowledgeTransfer #POPsLAB