Principal funding codes: 2511 - OFI - Doctoral research scient. personnel within the assignment of the institution Period: December 2019 till May 2024 Status: Completed
Thesaurus terms Marine aerosols; Marine ecology
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, co-ordinator
This study aims to investigate the bacterial community structure and potential functions in coastal seawater and air, as well as explore the immunomodulatory activity of bacteria and bacterial endotoxin in sea spray aerosols (SSAs) and coastal bioaerosols by exposing them to human cell lines.
Catarino, A.I.; León, M.C.; Li, Y.; Lambert, S.; Vercauteren, M.; Asselman, J.; Janssen, C.; Everaert, G.; De Rijcke, M. (2023). Micro- and nanoplastics transfer from seawater to the atmosphere through aerosolization under controlled laboratory conditions. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 192: 115015. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115015, more