Jaewook Myung @ WITHLAB @ KAIST

Environmental microbiology of emerging contaminants

Elucidating the true biodegradation behavior of biodegradable plastics in various environments
Exploring plastic-degrading microbiomes and isolates (bacteria, archaea, and algae)
Assessment of the effects of anthropogenic stressors on microbial ecosystem
Development of biodegradable products, including packaging, organic electronic materials, etc.

Microbial ecology of anaerobic plastic biodegradation (link)

Marine biodegradable
paper-coating material (link)

Aquatic plastisphere under eutrophication (link)

Isolation of novel
biodegrading strains

Elucidating the effects of inorganic and organic nutrients on methanotrophy and storage metabolism (e.g., PolyP and PHA)
Characterizing copper control of non-methane hydrocarbon oxidation by methane monooxygenase (MMO)
Investigating the resilience of methanotrophic communities and methane oxidation to prolonged heatwaves

Inorganic/organic nutrient-dependent storage metabolism in methanotrophs (link)

Ethane oxidation across
the methanotroph copper switch

Community shifts in wetland methanotrophs under varying resource availability (link)

Fabrication of biodegradable and high-performance materials by upcycling organic waste resources
Green technologies for lignocellulose pretreatment and nanocellulose production
Nanocellulose surface engineering for advanced nanocomposites, sorbents, and photonic materials

Green fabrication strategies for functional cellulose-based materials (link)

Non-edible biomass into biodegradable
and multi-functional bioplastics
(link 1, link 2)

Designing versatile materials from nanocellulose

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