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CMU researcher finds Pittsburgh steel-site bacteria evolved to eat industrial pollutants

CMU microbiologist details pollution-adapted bacteria at Hazelwood Green

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Catherine Armbruster, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, publishes an account describing how decades of industrial contamination at the Hazelwood Green brownfield selected for bacteria able to tolerate or consume BTEX pollutants (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene), and explains her lab's ongoing effort to collect soil cores from the site to study these microbial communities.

CMU microbiologist details pollution-adapted bacteria at Hazelwood Green
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“At Hazelwood Green, decades of industrial pollution accidentally ran a giant evolution experiment for us.”

Catherine Armbruster

Catherine Armbruster Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

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