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"Discovery of BAV-1" Frank Löffler
"Helpful Organisms" Kirsti Ritalahti
"The Threat to Water" Frank Löffler
"Future of Bioremediation" Frank Löffler
"What is Bioaugmentation?" Frank Löffler
"Working Together" Frank Löffler
Doctoral candidate Jianzhong He, foreground, was able to isolate BAV-1 from samples taken at a contaminated site in Michigan.
The bacterium BAV-1, shown here, occurs naturally and is smaller than a micron in size.
Assistant Professor Frank Löffler — School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Assistant Professor Frank Löffler can grow small colonies of BAV-1 in his lab, send them to another facility to grow larger colonies, then deliver those colonies to contaminated sites.
Working collaboratively, researchers such as Postdoctoral Fellow Kirsti Ritalahti and Assistant Professor Frank Löffler hope to identify other organisms that might help bioremediation efforts.
