Environmental Biotechnology Network

MARCH 22 Funding Roundup

The Royal Society: Newton International Fellowships16 March 2022 Innovate-UK: UK-Singapore Collaborative R&D20 April 2022 BBSRC Discovery Fellowships 20225 May 2022 Lloyd’s Register Foundation Small Grants scheme16 May 2022 Philip Leverhulme Prizes17 May 2022 Algae-UK: Developing the (UK) roadmap for industrial applications of algae for food and novel food ingredients – …

MARCH 22 Events Roundup

Innovate UK/KTN Deep Dive Workshop: Engineering Biology14 March 2022 SCI: Marine litter: Are there solutions to this global environmental challenge?23 March 2022 ChemUK202211-12 May 2022, NEC, Birmingham IBioIC 8th Annual Conference: The Just Transition of Biotechnology6-7 June 2022, Glasgow Isaac Newton Institute: Microbial communities: current approaches and open challengesDeadline for …

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 …

FEBRUARY 22 Events Roundup

KTN: Approaches to Life Cycle Assessment in the Bioeconomy24 February 2022 KTN: How to apply to the IETF Phase 2 fund1 March 2022 Low Carbon Agriculture 20228-9 March 2022, NAEC, Stoneleigh KTN/UK Circular Plastics Network: Global Research & Innovation in Plastics Sustainability (GRIPS)15–17 March 2022  E3BNet: ‘Top tips for writing …

FEBRUARY 22 Funding Roundup

RAEng: Enterprise FellowshipsStage 1 deadline: 28 February 2022. Stage 2 deadline: 4 April 2022 NBIC: Collaborative Training Partnerships – Project Proposals2 March 2022 IBioIC: Spin Out Funding3 March 2022 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship9 March 2022 NERC: Environmental sciences: global partnerships seedcorn fund 202210 March 2022 POST: Parliamentary Academic Fellowship Scheme – …

GRIPS conference, 15–17 March 2022 – Poster Competition

IOM3 Poster Award for Innovations in Plastics SustainabilityThe deadline for submissions to the IOM3 Poster Award at Global Research & Innovation in Plastics Sustainability (GRIPS) 2022 is 4 February 2022. This award is open to all: under-graduate and post-graduate students, business innovators, startups and large companies, making disruptive innovations that …

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 are hosting a series of …

Special issue on “Anaerobic Fermentation – A Biological Route Towards Achieving Net Neutrality”

Now open for submissions – Special Issue in MDPI Fermentation – “Anaerobic Fermentation – A Biological Route Towards Achieving Net Neutrality“. This Special Issue will exclusively focus on innovative research outputs, short communications, and perspective reviews on the production of biofuels and high-value biorenewables via anaerobic fermentation to support net …

PhD Opportunity on “Tracking the fate of plastic biodegradation in ocean systems under environmentally relevant conditions”

Application deadline:  Sunday 14th February 2022 This project aims to identify the biological and geochemical/physical processes involved in controlling the fate of plastics (of different polymer types) under different environmental settings. It will utilise sophisticated techniques in microbial ecology, such as DNA-based stable-isotope probing (DNA-SIP), to trace the fate of isotopically-labelled …

JANUARY 22 Events Roundup

An introduction to EMBL-EBI resources19 January 2022 RSC: Natural and artificial metalloenzymes: Faraday Discussion31 January – 3 February 2022 KTN: Metamaterials for Industrial Applications Conference 20222 February 2022 World Biogas EXPO2-3 March 2022, NEC Birmingham SCI/BioVale: Hemp Happening!6 April 2022, STEM Centre, York. (Abstracts by 4 March 2022) 1st UK-local …

JANUARY 22 Funding Roundup

CO2 Removal Hub (CO2RE Hub): Pathfinders Call 118 January 2022 The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851: Science and Engineering Research Fellowships19 January 2022 EPSRC: High-risk speculative engineering and ICT research: New Horizons25 January 2022 (Intent to submit deadline: 7 December 2021) InnovateUK: Made Smarter Innovation: Sustainable Smart Factory26 …

Senior Scientific Officer vacancy- University of Portsmouth

This role within the School of Civil Engineering and Surveying, University of Portsmouth is Full-time, Fixed-term (until 31 March 2025). Apply by 2 February 2022 This is an exciting opportunity to develop a career in wastewater research and innovation through supporting a strategic industrial – academic partnership between the University …

EBNet Webinar: Biological and Technological Solutions to Microplastic Pollution

Thursday, 20th January 2022 at 12:00 – 14.00 EBNet are hosting a series of specialist webinars to support knowledge exchange amongst members. Registration is now closed. Hear the latest developments from top speakers and participate in the online chat to engage with questions. The event recording is available here. If …