Category: <span>Outreach</span>

Latest EBNet Animations

Don’t miss the two new animations in our series on Microbiology/Engineering Interactions, which came out during #EnvBiotechAware week. Prof Tom Curtis has already shown his Microbes in Wastewater Treatment as part of a presentation to the Royal Academy of Engineering, while Aerobic Granules captures some key themes of the AG …

#EnvBiotechAware week

For information on our activities, see our #EnvBiotechAware week which ran from 3-7 March 2025 Celebrating our Network members and their work, with lunchtime webinars, reports, animations, case studies, outreach and more.   Friday contains some real treats. An Escape Room game to save our water supply, an audiobook, an upcoming podcast with the …

Stories from the Microbial World: Chalk Scribblers panel

  Wednesday 9 April 2025, 19-21:00 UK time  –  Online This event features a panel discussion on the Stories from the Microbial World anthology with the editor and two contributing authors. Stories from the Microbial World contains 23 stories in which microbes and microbiology play a prominent role. It was …

Bioremediation Podcast – Tackling Soil Contamination

Don’t miss the new Soil Matters podcast from the British Society of Soil Science.  Episode 1 features Prof Frederic Coulon and Prof Tony Gutierrez talking about new bioremediation techniques that are completely changing our approaches to reclaiming contaminated land. The podcast is available free on the BSSS Soil Matters webpage, …

Celebrating Environmental Biotechnology – Thursday, 6 March 2025

Join us for #EnvBiotechAware Week, 3-7 March 2025 to celebrate the work of our membership and take a closer look at our activities and achievements from the last few years. Featured Working Groups What have our Working Groups been up to? Ably led by academics whose enthusiasm translates into action, see how …

Celebrating Environmental Biotechnology – Wednesday, 5 March 2025

Join us for #EnvBiotechAware Week, 3-7 March 2025 to celebrate the work of our membership and take a closer look at our activities and achievements from the last few years. Lunchtime Webinar Opportunities in Biogas – a IEA Task 37 perspective, Wednesday, 5th March 1-2pm (UK) This webinar is on …

New EBNet videos!

Following our summer call for animation ideas to illustrate EBNet’s Microbiology/Engineering Interactions Theme, we now have 3 new videos to enjoy on YouTube. Our thanks to Dr Hemaka Bandulasena, Loughborough University, Dr Francis Hassard, Cranfield University and Dr Yue Zhang, University of Southampton for working with Senate Media to create these. Want …

New Green Stories Book – Stories from the Microbial World

A new anthology ‘Stories from the Microbial World‘ resulting from previous Green Stories competitions is available this week here. The anthology presents 23 short stories selected from winning stories from the Green Stories competition ‘Microbes to the Rescue’, sponsored by the Environmental Biotechnology Network and the ‘Clean vs Green’ competition, …

‘Murder in the Citizens’ Jury’ performed by the Maskers this week.

Performances: 17-22 September 2024. Discounted performance + Q&A (£10): Sunday 22nd September, Southampton as it is being filmed. Audiences can receive a £10 voucher for giving feedback.. The Maskers are staging the play by Professor Denise Baden of the University of Southampton. ‘Murder in the Citizens’ Jury’ which was inspired …

EBNet Animation Opportunity

As part of EBNet’s Engineering/Biology theme we intend to commission some short animations that illustrate interactions between the system microbiology and its engineering envelope in Environmental Biotechnology. This EBNet resource – a collection of publicly available videos – will showcase EB in an accessible way to promote a better understanding …

NATO SPS and Cold Regions AD meeting

EBNet Co-I Prof Tom Curtis and Network co-Manager Angela Bywater headed to Fairbanks Alaska from 4th to 7th March 2024 to discuss renewable energy from anaerobic digestion in remote and off-grid applications. The meeting was hosted by the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) and funded by the NATO Science for …

Green Stories/EBNet Competition: Short story – Theme: Microbes. Briefing Webinar

The webinar is over, but the recording is here. A virtual green story writing workshop (free to attend) for aspiring entrants will be held at 6-7pm Monday, 31st July where you can ask questions of experts in the field to help develop your story. We’ve allowed an hour but if …