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Our final speaker is Rosie Graham, a final year PhD student in the engineering group of the Centre for Enzyme Innovation, focussing on learning from the natural world to design and engineer plastic degrading enzymes for efficient biorecycling. Specifically studying ways to combine enzymes to create ‘Super-enzymes’ and target the enzymes to the surface of plastic to enhance the break down plastic waste.

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Our second speaker is Jo Herbert, a 2nd year PhD student studying the genetics of plastic-degrading bacteria within the Centre for Enzyme Innovation, University of Portsmouth. She specialises in the evolution of bacteria and her current research looks at using the power of bacterial evolution in the laboratory to discover novel enzymes and how they naturally adapt to degrading and using substances such as plastic.

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