Principal Investigator: Dr. Andreia Fonseca de Faria 

Department: Environmental Engineering Sciences 

Institution: University of Florida ​​

Personal Research Affiliation: August 2022 - December 2022

​Research Focus: My research focus of the project was to study the decomposition of biomass and use of nanomaterials as alternative water filtrations.

Project Responsibilities: While working under Dr. Faria, I experimented with a nanomaterial called carbon dots and saw their effects on gram positive and gram negative bacteria's' production of biofilm. I helped grow bacteria cultures and then used dyes to stain the bacteria's cell membrane. Once the carbon dots were placed with the bacteria through a pipette, time was given to see the effect, and then I aided with the spectrophotometer readings to record the leaked dye concentration for each sample.

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