Category: <span>Working Groups</span>

EBNet Workshop: Life Cycle Assessment Tools for Environmental Biotechnology – 12 Dec 2022 13-16:00 GMT

This webinar recording is now available here. We invite EBNet members to join us for this FREE online workshop – brought to you by the Process Integration and Sustainability Assessment Working Group. Join us for 3 hours of top level content. Featuring top speakers from academia and industry this workshop …

EBNet Webinar: Aerobic granulation in continuous operating mode and its commercialisation – Dr Sudhir Murthy, NEWhub Corp

Webinar: Thursday 17 November 2022 12:30-13:30 UK Title: Aerobic granulation in continuous operating mode and its commercialisation A recording of the webinar is available HERE on EBNet’s YouTube channel Invited International Speaker: Dr Sudhir Murthy is Chief Executive Officer of NEWhub Corp. He is also an Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at …

Prenomics & Genomics Courses Nov-Dec 2022 – Cloud-SPAN

Do you need to analyse more genomic data than your own computer can handle? If you would like to use High Performance Computing for genomics but don’t know where to start then the Cloud-SPAN Courses could be for you! The Cloud-SPAN team have developed two courses which provide an introduction …

New EBNet Working Group: Bioelectrochemical Systems Development for Environmental Technology

This new Working Group will promote education, collaboration and research by merging microbiology, engineering, material and biotechnology disciplines in the study of bioelectrochemical systems. Contact the lead, Dr Sharon Velasquez Orta, Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering. Newcastle University to get involved.

Fully funded MSc opportunity – Cranfield University – “PFAS removal from water”

Deadline: 20 November 2022 Move fast on this exciting fully funded MSc by Research opportunity – sponsored by Nextech Ltd. and Anglian Water, with a stipend of ÂŁ18,000 per annum (plus fees). This project will develop strategies and validate innovative materials to remove PFAS (Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances), often called …

EBNet Webinar: Aerobic granulation in continuous operating mode and its commercialisation – Dr Sudhir Murthy, NEWhub Corp

Webinar recording now available HERE on the YouTube channel Webinar: Thurs 17 Nov 2022, 12:30-13:30 UK Invited International Speaker: Title: Aerobic granulation in continuous operating mode and its commercialisation Dr Sudhir Murthy is Chief Executive Officer of NEWhub Corp. He is also an Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at Columbia University …

Webinar: Advances in Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactors (AnMBR)

Recording for Prof van Lier and Prof Jefferson available here. Registered attendees can contact us for Dr Pacheco-Ruiz’s recording details Webinar: 7 Dec 2022 13-15:00  Rescheduled from spring this year, we have the much anticipated AnMBR webinar featuring 3 top speakers from the UK and EU.  This fascinating session was …

Water Biofilms seminar series: ‘What are biofilms doing in our drinking water pipes?’ by Professor Joby Boxall, University of Sheffield

The webinar recording is now available here. Wednesday, 21 September 2022, 12.00-13.00. EBNet, in combination with NBIC, are hosting a series of specialist webinars to support knowledge exchange amongst members. Hear the latest developments from top speakers and participate in the online chat to engage with questions. This fascinating series …

EBNet POC 2022 Call – Funded Projects

The following projects have been awarded funding in our EBNet POC2022 Call. Publicly available summaries from the POC applications are available here. Mitigating N2O emission from wastewater treatment processes – EBNet POC202204 Dr Bing Guo, University of Surrey (and see the N2O WG) Pure biomethane – rather than biogas – from a …

EBNet BIV 2021 Call – Funded Projects

The following projects were awarded funding in our EBNet BIV2021 Call. Publicly available information from the applications for these projects is available here. Bioleaching application for the recovery of Minor and Rare Earth Metals from Complex Nickel Alloys Dust – BIV 202101 Professor Sebastien Farnaud, Coventry University / Advanced Alloy …

Water Biofilms seminar series: ‘Granular Activated Carbon Biofilms for Biomethanation from Wastewater’ by Dr Po-Heng Lee, Imperial College London

Wednesday, 6 July 2022, 12.00-13.00. This event is now over, but the recording is available HERE.EBNet, in combination with NBIC, are hosting a series of specialist webinars to support knowledge exchange amongst members. Hear the latest developments from top speakers and participate in the online chat to engage with questions. …

EBNet/Carbon Recycling Network webinar: CO2 Biomethanisation

Thursday, 26 May 2022, 12.00-14.00. Registration now closed. EBNet is hosting a series of specialist webinars to support knowledge exchange amongst members. Hear the latest developments from top speakers and participate in the online chat to engage with questions. This fascinating session is chaired by: Dr David Inman, Innovation Projects …

EBNet Webinar: Why Bioinformatics Training is Important

Webinar: Wednesday 11 May 2022, 14-15:30. Registration closed The slides for the meeting are available here. Recording available here – an excellent resource for anyone wanting to learn more about bioinformatics! This open session is brought to you by the EBNet Working Group: Bioinformatics Training for Microbial Environmental Biotechnologies. To …

Gout, bigger muscles and a sweet tooth – what other than Covid-19 have we been monitoring in wastewater? Professor Kevin Thomas, QAEHS

Webinar: Thursday, 10 March 2022, 10.00-11.00 (GMT) This talk is by Professor Kevin Thomas – Director of the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS). Registration is now closed. The past 2 years has seen unprecedented adoption of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) for the surveillance of SARS-CoV-2. Set against the mass …

EBNet Webinar: Using Big Data Approaches to Understand Microbial Communities 

Thursday, 10th February 2022 at 13.00 – 14.15 – Registration now closed. The SESSION RECORDING is available here. See Dr Sophie Nixon’s presentation here and Dr Imer Ujaz’s presentation here. Can you help inform our Bioinformatics Working Group activities? Fill in our survey here. EBNet is hosting a series of …