All events of interest to members
Presentations from our webinar on Mixed-Culture Anaerobic Fermentation in the EU: Updates from HORIZON 2020 projects on the biowaste-derived volatile fatty acid platform are now available HERE The speakers cover the HORIZON 2020 projects VOLATILE/CAFIPLA, developments in standardisation, and insights from pilot-scale research. Talks Volatile Fatty Acid Platform – from biowaste …
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: …
Dr Deepak Pant is a senior scientist at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research working on electrosynthesis and resource recovery: specifically, the design and optimization of bio/electrochemical cells for CO2 conversion and microbial electrosynthesis. Hear him present some of the latest international research on EBNet YouTube. This webinar on Electrobiocatalysis …
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 Jaffé 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 …
Key dates: Abstract submission 16 June 2025 Early Bird registration 30 June 2025 Conference 24-27 Sept 2025 Venue: Harokopio University of Athens, Greece This year sees the fifth conference in the series RETASTE: Rethink Food Resources, Losses, and Waste. The conference covers a range of relevant topic areas: information on …
As part of EBNet’s Working Group on PFAS, Dr Tao Lyu and Prof Frederic Coulon hosted a successful one-day workshop on 6 June bringing together researchers, early-career scientists and industry stakeholders to share the latest advances in PFAS detection, degradation and biotechnological solutions. The event, supported by EBNet and the …
Date: 1 July 2025, 10:30-16:30 Venue: The Milner, York Join the BB-REG-NET for a full-day interactive workshop on developing tools and standards to assess the impact and performance of bio-based, biodegradable, and compostable materials. The workshop, entitled Creating a favourable regulatory environment for bio-based materials, aims to help develop new tools, …
