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The BBSRC Industrial Biotechnology Evaluation has been published today on the UKRI website. The news item can be found here: Report reveals impact of industrial biotechnology investments ā UKRI The full evaluation report can be found here: Evaluating BBSRC investments in industrial biotechnology research ā UKRI
Why not bookmark the EBIC website now to keep on top of the latest developments in the sector? This BBSRC-funded hub brings together scientists to advance the abilities of micro-organisms to monitor the environment and remove pollutants in a new centre. Benefiting from Ā£13 million of funding from the Technology …
Kindly respond by 15 March 2024 TASK 37 is consulting on priorities for their next triennium (2025-28). The UK Task 37 lead, Prof Sonia Heaven, is canvassing the AD community for topics for inclusion in the new programme. Some brief examples are given below. Do you have an opinion? Please …
GitLife Biotech aim to set the global standard in the management of provenance and integrity for biological assets; enabling the potential of synthetic biology to be realised worldwide. They are looking for a highly motivated, experienced and collaborative Bioinformatician, who is able to work under pressure, and quickly embed and …
Share your own views with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: HERE. This call for evidence asks for your experiences and insights into the strengths, weakness and opportunities for the UKās engineering biology ecosystem. Government will use the outcomes of this call for evidence to inform policy that will …
Share your own views on the UK’s water industry: HERE A Fresh Water Future is an independently-funded project, delivered by CIWEM but overseen by a range of environmental NGOs, experts and practitioners. It aims to understand where consensus may be built on how water should be managed better in the …
Interested in biofilms? The National Biofilms Innovation Centre (NBIC) Showcase will take place on Tuesday 12 September 2023 from 09:00 ā 17:30 at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham. Featuring talks from partner research institutions, researchers, industry/end-user partners etc., making this a great networking and knowledge exchange event. Register …
The long-awaited UK Government’s Biomass Strategy has been published. It sets out steps government intends to take to strengthen biomass sustainability and the opportunities for the use of sustainable biomass across multiple sectors of the economy in support of achieving the UKās net zero target. It builds on the 2021Ā Biomass …
Deadline: 14 July 2023. Up to Ā£20,000 per BIV. Purpose: to encourage and support collaboration between academia and industry. The collaboration can be any defined piece of work by the academic partner to support the industrial partner and which is intended to facilitate small, confidence-building measures between the partners with …
Deadline: 20 September 2023 The CBE JU second call for project proposals is now live. A total of ā¬215.5 million will be dedicated to advancing competitive circular bio-based industries in Europe across 18 topics. Call topics: Innovation actions ā flagship Optimised and integrated wood-based value chains – ā¬17 million Expansion …
Engineering biology is the application of (rigorous) engineering principles to the design and fabrication of biological components and systems, from modifications of natural systems to new forms of artificial biology. It encompasses the entire innovation ecosystem, from breakthrough synthetic biology research to translation and application. UKRI is inviting applications for: …
The Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) is offering an intensive and highly interactive summer course from 3-21 July 2023 in Singapore, which unites fields such as environmental biotechnology and microbial ecology. The course is open to students who are currently pursuing graduate programs in STEM disciplines and …
Supporting events – (spaces limited, booked on a first-come-first-served basis!)ā¢ Tuesday 5 July ā A dial-in session providing further detail on the problem space and a chance to ask questions in an open forum. ā¢ Thursday 7 and Monday 11 July ā A series of 20 minute one-to-one teleconference sessions, …
It is with immense sadness that the EB Network has learned of the death of Dr Clare Lukehurst OBE. As the UK National Team Leader for the International Energy Agency Task 37 (Energy from Biogas) for many years, she was involved in numerous publications, annual reports and the dissemination of …
Deadline: 13 April 2022 Funded by the National Biofilms Innovation Centre (NBIC) and delivered by SETsquared, the Biofilms ICURe Sprint is an accelerated version of the Innovation to Commercialisation of University Research (ICURe) programme, dedicated solely to research teams developing biofilm innovations. The programme will support teams led by university …
