Brenna Norton‐Baker

The paper develops a fluorescent probe-based method to screen plastic-degrading enzymes using rhodamine-doped polymer substrates and validates it with PET and polyethylene materials.

This study evolves a microbial strain under dynamic conditions to optimize sugar catabolism, finding that mixed-sugar environments promote stable retention and coordinated optimization of multiple pathways.

The paper enhances the Chi.Bio bioreactor with pH control, demonstrating its effectiveness in PET hydrolysis with reduced enzyme requirements.