On November 21-22, 2023, early career researchers within the CUSP consortium came together for a virtual exchange of their project progress and to share their experience of working in a collaborative EU project and cluster. Seventeen presentations from across all five projects were delivered to an audience of 55 project members, who learned about the researchers’ developments in the characterization of MNPs, in vitro models, exposure and effects, and immune responses. As a follow-up, they were invited to create two-minute video summaries of their work, and these are now publicly available to watch on the CUSP YouTube channel with individual presentations linked below.
The invitation is still open for other CUSP early career researchers to create short (two-minute) videos to share their progress more widely with the world! Contact your CUSP project’s communications team if you’re interested.
View the research summary videos:
- “Impact of PS, PLA, PET particles on B Lymphocyte cell lines.” Lucie Bonnefon-Craponne, CEA France, PlasticHeal
- “From in vitro to in vivo to humans. Microplastic immunotoxicity.” Tim Skrabanja, UMC Utrecht, Polyrisk
- “MNPs in Macrophages.” Maike Adler, FAU, PlasticsFatE
- “Getting reliable data on microplastic detection methods by means of Interlaboratory Comparison.” Dmitri Ciornii, BAM, PlasticsFatE
- “Micro(nano)plastics (MNPs) fate in the gastrointestinal tract and human gut microbiota.” Iris Pinillos Sanz, CSIC, PlasticsFatE
