Category: <span>Working Groups</span>

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 …

Fishing for Viruses in Sewage. A tool for understanding the molecular epidemiology of tiny human pathogens

Webinar: Thursday, 16 December 2021, 12.00-13.00pm This talk is by Dr Javier Martin, NIBSC. Registration is now closed. The video of the session can be viewed here. Dr Javier Martin is currently working as a Principal Scientist in the Division of Virology, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC) …

Wastewater Monitoring for Public Health: Research from the Environmental Monitoring for Health Protection (EMHP)

Webinar: Thursday, 25 November 2021, 12.00-13.00pm This talk is by Dr Jazz Grimsley, UK HSA. Registration is now closed. Dr Jasmine Grimsley’s current work in the Environmental Monitoring for Health Protection (EMHP) team at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) focuses on generating insights from wastewater on the COVID-19 pandemic …

Anaerobic digestion: Quo Vadis?

EBNet members recently took part in an international workshop to discuss the latest scientific developments and practical applications in anaerobic digestion (AD) and related technologies. The hybrid event on Anaerobic digestion: Quo Vadis? was organised by the University of Valladolid. Topics covered included membrane bioreactors for industrial wastewaters; fermentation and …

Mass Spectrometry in Wastewater-based Epidemiology (WBE) for the Determination of Small and Large Molecules as Biomarkers of Exposure – Needs for COVID-19 Testing with Environmental Proteomics (EP-WBE)

Webinar: Thu 11 Nov, 11.00 am-noon This talk is by Professor Damia Barcelo – IDAEA-CSIC, Spain. Registration is now closed. View the talk on YouTube here. View Professor Barcelo’s presentation here and download the related paper here. The Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Studies (IDAEA) is an environmental science …

Developing the Next-Generation of Monitoring for Human and Env Protection

Webinar: Wed 29 Sep 2021 12-13:00   This talk is by Dr Andrew Singer, who is a Principal Scientist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH). He is a pollution scientist with an interest in understanding its effects on microbial ecology and ecosystem function in soil and water …

EBNet POC 2021 Call – Funded Projects

The following projects were awarded funding in our EBNet POC2021 Call. Publicly available summaries from the POC project applications are available here. Faecal pollution source tracking and quantitative microbial risk assessment methods for a suitcase laboratory – EBNet POC202101 Dr David Werner, Newcastle University (and see the Environmental Sensors and …

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. …

Webinar Outcomes – “Organohalide Bioremediation – Current Approaches in Environmental Biotech”

SYNOPSIS (The video is available here) The new EBNet Webinar series is designed to replace our annual Research Colloquium with top-quality, specialist webinars on a range of EB topics. Under the spotlight this January to share the latest in “Organohalide Bioremediation – Current Approaches in Environmental Biotech”, were Dr Sophie …

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

Tuesday, 26th January 2021 at 12:00 – 1:30 pm This event is now over. View the summary here. This event is FREE-TO-MEMBERS. Non-members are welcome – join the Network for free prior to registration. In place of our Research Colloquium 2021, EBNet is hosting a series of specialist webinars to …

Webinar Outcomes: “Sustainable Biological Removal of N and P – Advances and Challenges for Environmental Biotech”

SYNOPSIS The webinar recording is available here   The latest in our EBNet Webinar series focussed attention on “Sustainable Biological Removal of N and P – Advances and Challenges for Environmental Biotech”. Joining us to share their combined industrial and academic expertise in the topic were Juhani Kostiainen, Plantwork Systems …

Webinar Outcomes: “Biosensors and Environmental Monitoring – New Developments in Environmental Biotech”

SYNOPSIS (Video of Dr Zhugen Yang available here; Prof Kasprzyk-Hordern’s talk currently embargoed to non-attendees) The new EBNet Webinar series is designed to replace our annual Research Colloquium with top-quality, specialist webinars on a range of EB topics. Providing insight for our second offering, with a look at “Biosensors and …

EBNet POC 2020 Call – Funded Projects

The following projects were awarded funding in EBNet’s POC Call 2020. Publicly available summaries from the applications for these POC projects are available here. Enhancing PFASs Attenuation in Coastal brownfield Soils (EPACS): enhancing natural system attenuation capacity for a key emerging contaminant – EBNet POC202001 Professor Andy Cundy, University of Southampton(and …

Webinar Outcomes: “Aerobic Granules in Wastewater Treatment – Combining Novel Molecular Techniques and Technologies for Environmental Biotech”

SYNOPSIS (Webinar video available to watch here) 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 series, with a look at “Aerobic Granules in Wastewater Treatment – Combining Novel Molecular Techniques and Technologies for …