IRBIM CNR at Festival della Scienza in Genova
Katia Buonasera, Simone Cappello and Mariella Genovese from the IRBIM CNR headquarters in Messina presented ‘Bioremediation and Biosensors: how to save the sea and its biodiversity by drawing inspiration from nature’. A virtual tour of the Institute, located in the beautiful setting of the Strait of Messina, to talk about the remediation of contaminated water using hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria, and biosensors based on these bacteria as a low environmental impact tool to detect the presence of hydrocarbons in seawater.