EcoCoat — Bachelor thesis & ALE programme
Adaptive laboratory evolution of E. coli 498 toward toxic industrial reaction water in the EcoCoat project at IMC Krems, with Kansai Helios as industry partner.
Adaptation campaigns reached up to 70% reaction water. The bachelor thesis on this work was completed in 2026; stable tolerance and ecotoxicity validation remain open questions in the project.
Details
- Context
- Industrial reaction water from polyester resin production is currently incinerated. EcoCoat tests whether biology can treat it instead.
- My role
- Project intern, then scientific staff. I design and run the morbidostat experiments, build the analysis pipelines, and set up the validation assays.
- Methods & tools
- Morbidostat ALE
- Python time-series analysis
- Microtox bioassay (in progress)
- Outcome
- Adaptation campaigns reached up to 70% reaction water. The bachelor thesis on this work was completed in 2026; stable tolerance and ecotoxicity validation remain open questions in the project.

