Xenobiotic means ‘foreign to life’. It is a term applied to many recalcitrant organic chemicals. 

Xenobiotic is a term used to describe chemical substances that are foreign to animal life and thus includes such examples as plant constituents, drugs, pesticides, cosmetics, flavorings, fragrances, food additives, industrial chemicals and environmental pollutants.

next in-person meeting in Ghent Belgium, 24 – 25 October 2023

The RecycleSlab team is organizing a technical session on WCEE2024  on "Behavior and Design of Flat Slabs under Seismic Actions". A paper describing the project is being prepared. A technical visit to ELSA is also being organized, in order to show the test building on the laboratory.

In the past three weeks we had the pleasure to host Roxana Cotojman from Colegiul National Gheorghe Magheru, Romania for an internship within Erasmus+ Program (with Casa da Educação). Roxana worked together with our PhD student Jorge Antunes and we hope she enjoyed the experience as much as we did!

The rising temperatures threatening life on our planet are caused in part by microbes that produce 50% of atmospheric methane, a gas 30 times more potent than CO2 at trapping heat. Surprisingly, another kind of microbe combats these rising temperatures by consuming up to 80% of methane released from ocean sediments.

To be announced soon.