Jorge Arreola‐Vargas

This paper identifies a wastewater Cladosporium halotolerans strain capable of aerobically degrading GenX, a PFAS, through a genomically expanded haloacid dehalogenase repertoire and a phased transcriptional program.

The paper develops GENIA, a machine learning framework for designing synthetic microbial communities that degrade multiple persistent pollutants more effectively than existing methods.