A single bacterial cell forms a colony of more than a million cells in ten hours. With a mutation rate of 0.003 mutations per generation, bacteria adapt easily to new ecosystems with new textures and nutrients, chemicals and hosts.

In their flexibility, in their adapting to new substances, their life is plasticity, randomness, mutation.

For an ongoing research project on bacterial communities in the "plastisphere", old landfills are being visited as a symbolic and physical projection of a new habitat. Capturing microbial data with experimental culturing techniques and DNA sequencing of the plastic-associated microbial community.

Are sites of human - made catastrophes the new evolutionary hotspots in our earth system?

This project seeks to describe and compare the bacterial community of plastic polluted ground, identifying dominant species and functional groups responsible for colonization and subsequent degradation processes.

Bacterial evolvability is more fluid than any other organism on earth