Category: <span>Event</span>

Imminent funding opportunities from the National Engineering Biology Programme

Engineering Biology   UKRI partners including BBSRC, EPSRC, Innovate UK, MRC, and NERC, have worked closely with MoD/Dstl to engage the UK community and establish a vision for UK engineering biology. Building on this vision, UKRI continues to develop a proposal for an ambitious National Engineering Biology Programme (NEBP) to …

Can biomass displace petrochemicals as a feedstock for manufacturing?

Can biomass displace petrochemicals as a feedstock for manufacturing? The world is committed to decarbonising human activities to mitigate the worst effects of climate change. If we are to restrict global temperature rise to 1.5-2.0 by the end of this Century, we will have to eliminate the use of fossil-based …

JUNE 2021 Events Roundup

BBNet Conference (live)13-15 October 2021 9th IWA Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering Specialist Conference: Microbial Ecology Data & Principles for Water Systems and Industries18-20 October 2021 Energy Institute: Reservoir Microbiology Forum (RMF) 202110-11 November 2021 The Biochemical Society: Synthetic Biology UK 202122-23 November 2021, EMCC, Nottingham IWA Wastewater, Water and …

MAY 2021 Events Roundup

E3BNet: Rare-earth metal responses explored in the genomes of extremophilic red algae Galdieria 17 May 2021 Teesside University Together with Business: Industrial Biotechnologies in the Process Industry Cluster 18 May 2021 KTN: Trusted Research for Industry Series – Life Sciences, Chemistry & Biotechnology20 May 2021 Joint NIBB Event (Algae-UK/BBNet/EBNet): Sargassum …

APRIL 2021 Events Roundup

EPSRC: Sustainable manufacturing 20 April 2021 The Carbon Recycling Network conference 27-28 April 2021 CPI: Northern Bio-Accelerator Partnership: How we can help grow your bioscience organisation 12 May 2021 KTN: Bioeconomy Cluster Builder: Innovation Canvas Webinar 13 May 2021 Joint NIBB event (Algae-UK/BBNet/EBNet): Sargassum Golden Tides, a global problem 26 …

CIWM WEBINAR: EQUALITY, DIVERSITY and INCLUSION IN THE WASTE INDUSTRY, 31 Mar 21

The purpose of the webinar is to explore whether the waste industry is doing enough to meet the need for equality, diversity and inclusion.  Presentations will cover the scope of EDI within a membership driven organisation, what EDI means in the workplace environment, unconscious bias, the presence and experiences of …

E3BNet: Seminar – “UK to get the world’s first commercial precious metal bio-refinery from e-waste”

Join Ollie Crush and Andy Hanratty, Mint Innovation on 16 March 2021 at 18.30. Mint Innovation is a cleantech start-up founded in Auckland, New Zealand in 2016. Mint’s mission is to develop and deploy new technologies to aid the recovery of valuable materials from urban mine feedstocks. A core current …

FEBRUARY 2021 Events Roundup

RSC Webinar: Marine Plastics: From Local to Global 16 February 2021 The Royal Society: You and the planet – air 16 February 2021 E3BNet Metals in Biology: Seminar series Probing metalloenzyme catalysis with time-resolved crystallographic and spectroscopic methods at X-ray free-electron lasers, 17 February 2021 The challenge to correctly measure …

Webinar Outcomes – “FOG/Fatberg Mitigation and Societal Behaviour – Aspects of Environmental Biotech”

SYNOPSIS The new EBNet Webinar series replaced our annual Research Colloquium with top-quality, specialist webinars on a range of EB topics. Concluding the 2020-21 programme with “FOG/Fatberg Mitigation and Societal Behaviour – Aspects of Environmental Biotech” were Dr Mar Batista, British Water and Natalia Jawiarczyk, Cranfield University. A combination of …

Webinar Outcomes – “How to Engineer a Microbial Ecosystem – Fundamentals of Environmental Biotech”

SYNOPSIS The new EBNet Webinar series is designed to replace our annual Research Colloquium with top-quality, specialist webinars on a range of EB topics. Leading the discussion this January to explore the latest in “How to Engineer a Microbial Ecosystem – Fundamentals of Environmental Biotech”, was Professor Tom Curtis, Newcastle. …

Responsible Innovation: Industrial Biotechnology and Engineering Biology

Mon 25 Jan 21 10:30-14:00, online EBNet is pleased to be participating in this event hosted by the Carbon Recycling Network, the Nottingham BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre, and the ENGICOIN project, in collaboration with the Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham. Registration (which closes at 8 am, Mon 25 Jan) and further details …

JANUARY 2021 Events Roundup

IBioIC’s 7th Annual Conference 10 – 11 February 2021 E3B Workshop: The challenge to correctly measure metal affinities of proteins 11 February 2021 KTN: Global Research and Innovation in Plastics Sustainability (GRIPS) 2021 16 March 2021 ISMOS-8 8-11 June 2021 Online Symposium RSC: MOFs for energy and the environment Faraday …