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 in bioelectrochemical systems. 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 Environmental Biotechnology Innovation Hub (EBIC) led by Prof Frederic Coulon has launched a quarterly podcast series. The first episode on How can biofilms and bacteria be used to breakdown plastic? is presented by Prof Ronan McCarthy and Lyuboslava Harkova of Brunel University and was launched for World Environment Day …
Key dates Abstract deadline: 23:59 on 30 June 2025 Abstract notification: 4 July 2025 Conference: 25 July 2025 Venue: Northumbria University Business and Law School, Newcastle, UK Postgraduate rersearch students and postdoctoral researchers from across the UK and elsewhere are invited to participate in this annual conference, which aims to …
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. …
Ofwat’s Water Breakthrough Challenge 5 has awarded almost £2M to fund the SandSCAPE project which will trial robotic underwater skimming machines as a way to clean slow sand filters (SSF) without draining them of water. This novel approach preserves the unique biology of the system, improving performance and resilience, and …
Green Stories has a new Epiphanies – Flash Fiction competition which is open for entries until 27 August 2025. The remit of the Green Stories project is different from EBNet’s, but there is plenty of overlap – so surely scope for some entries inspired by Environmental Biotechnology. Start writing now! …
A new book from the Royal Society of Chemistry contains a chapter on Respirometry of Organic Solid Wastes: Methods and relevance to understanding the composting process and end-product stability, authored by EBNet member Tom Aspray of Solid Sense Ltd. EBNet has done relatively little work to date on composting technologies, …
Each month we are highlighting 2-3 stories from our Green Stories: Microbes to the Rescue anthology, equivalent to about 30 mins listening in the Audiobook version. The anthology is also available as a free eBook on the Resources page. This month’s selections are: Chapter 1: Up Shit’s Creek by Brian Adams, …
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 …
