Other events of interest outside the NIBBs
Look out for the forthcoming Northern Ireland conference of the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA), to be held in Belfast on 23 Sept 2025 from 9-18:00 UK. Note that Early Bird ticket sales close on 31 July 2025! Sessions will include pathfinder projects; Â planning, policy and nutrient management; and …
Abstracts & Registration deadline: 12 Aug 2025 Date: 12 Sept 2025 Venue: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow The Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes meeting is hosted by Microbial Genomics Deputy Editor-in-Chief Dr Eva Heinz. Microbial Genomics covers the breadth of microbial life including viruses, bacteria, archaea and microbial eukaryotes. Topics range from comparative and …
Date: 17-18 Sept 2025 Venue: NEC, Birmingham Registration is open for Resource & Waste Management 2025 hosted by RWM Expo and the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) The event covers cutting-edge recycling technologies, waste-to-energy solutions, sustainable resource management and everything else in this sector. It attracts over 15000 resource …
Thanks to our colleagues in the Environmental Biotechnology Innovation Centre (EBIC) Hub for a highly enjoyable and successful ECR conference on 8-9 July in Edinburgh. EBNet sponsored prizes for Best Presentations and Best Poster. In a very tight and competitive field, the overall winner was Dr Yasmin Meeda for her …
Key dates: Abstract deadline 7 July 2025 (Don’t Miss!) Event 26-27 November 2025 in Liverpool, UK Â For full details including registration see here. This meeting is intended to strengthen links between researchers across the whole field of microbial evolution, in the UK and elsewhere. There will be invited talks on …
Date: 14 July 2025 13-14:00 UK Dr Ahsan Islam, Senior Lecturer in Biochemical Engineering at Loughborough University, will discuss his group’s work on designing and developing bespoke biological cell factories that use GHGs as feedstock for the sustainable manufacture of commodity chemicals. Dr Islam said, “Converting the fossil fuel-based chemical …
Date: 7 July 2025, 14-15:30 UK This webinar, organised as part of Net Zero Week 2025, will present the key outcomes from a study commissioned by the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) on the cost of meeting Britain’s Net Zero targets in 2050. It will highlight significant savings that could …
On 4 July 2025 UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) will host a webinar from 12-13:00 featuring the ELEMENTAL Mission Hub. The ELEMENTAL Hub, led by the University of Kent, focuses on developing sustainable solutions for the recovery and processing of metals. The webinar will cover the Hub’s objectives, ongoing research …
Part of the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition, these events on 3 – 5 July may be of particular use and relevance to EBNet members and Working Groups. 3 July Talk: Fighting superbugs with tiny warriors  12-12:30. Dr Franklin Nobrega talks about the role of phase in fighting anti-microbial resistance Talk: …
EBNet is joining our colleagues at EBIC and in many other national and international organisations, in celebrating 23 June 2025 as International Women in Engineering Day. See here for EBIC’s posting. International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) started in the UK in 2014 as a national campaign set up by …
Key dates Abstract submission deadline 1 August 2025 Notification on abstracts 8 August 2025 Registration for F2F participation 18 August 2025 (or when all places full) Workshop 17-19 September 2025, Horsens, Denmark or online This is the closing event for Euro-MIC, the COST Action Network for Management of Microbiologically-Influenced Corrosion …
The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) has arranged a site visit to Toton WWTW near Nottingham. The visit is on 24 June 2025 and is open to CIWEM members and to non-members. For details and to register for the visit see here. The guided tour, hosted by …
The sessions from the joint EBNet/EBIC workshop on Environmental Biotechnology for the management of PFAS and beyond held on 6 June 2025 at Cranfield University are now available via EBNet’s and EBIC’s YouTube channels: see the workshop Playlist Speakers include Prof Peter JaffĂ© and Prof Joshua Atkinson from Princeton University. …
Conference date: 16-20 June 2025 Venue: Liège, Belgium Prof Frederic Coulon, co-Lead of EBNet’s Pollutants & Media theme and Chair of AquaConSoil 2025, has taken part in the pre-conference press event to outline the scope and ambitions of the conference, which will take place in Liège from 16-20 June 2025. …
Congratulations to Dr Meredith Barr for her presentation at the recent Biochar IV conference, covering some of the work done by her and her team for EBNet POC202409 Elucidating mechanisms of bacterial adsorption to biochar by 3D X-ray image analysis Meredith said, “The event went really well, and the presentation …
