Environmental Biotechnology Network

NBIC: Priority questions exercise for microbial biofilms

The National Biofilms Innovation Centre (NBIC), together with the Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE), Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE), COST AMiCI Consortium and the ESCMID Study Group for Biofilms (ESGB) are calling on the international biofilms community to help identify priority questions that, if answered, will make a …

CIWM WEBINAR: EQUALITY, DIVERSITY and INCLUSION IN THE WASTE INDUSTRY, 31 Mar 21

The purpose of the webinar is to explore whether the waste industry is doing enough to meet the need for equality, diversity and inclusion.  Presentations will cover the scope of EDI within a membership driven organisation, what EDI means in the workplace environment, unconscious bias, the presence and experiences of …

EBRI: Biomass Policy Fellow

Closing date for applications: Thursday, 8 April 2021. Based at Aston University, University of Nottingham or York . Fixed term (18 months), Full Time. The Energy and Bioproducts Research Institute seeks applications for a full time Biomass Policy Fellow to bridge between the bioenergy research community and policy makers developing …

E3BNet: Seminar – “UK to get the world’s first commercial precious metal bio-refinery from e-waste”

Join Ollie Crush and Andy Hanratty, Mint Innovation on 16 March 2021 at 18.30. Mint Innovation is a cleantech start-up founded in Auckland, New Zealand in 2016. Mint’s mission is to develop and deploy new technologies to aid the recovery of valuable materials from urban mine feedstocks. A core current …

BBNet Proof of Concept Call: “Biobased technologies for a sustainable textile economy” (£50K)

Zoom POC call launch: from 14:00 to 16:00, 24 March 2021. To join the pre-launch Zoom call register by: noon 22 March 2021. See here for more details. The fashion and textiles sector is responsible for 10% of global greenhouse gas emission and 20% of global waste water. BBNet will …

MARCH 21 Funding Roundup

ESRC Postdoctoral fellowships 23 March 2021 UKRI: Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund 2021 30 March 2021 BEIS: Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme Intention to submit deadline: 31 March 2021 The Australia International Research Collaboration Global Innovation Linkages Program (AusIndustry) 7 April 2021 INNOVATEUK: Knowledge transfer partnerships 14 April 2021 KTP: African agriculture …

MARCH 21 Events Roundup

E3BNet: UK to get the world’s first commercial precious metal bio-refinery from e-waste 16 March 2021 KTN: Global Research and Innovation in Plastics Sustainability (GRIPS) 2021 16 March 2021 BDC Webinar: How to find increased value from your by-products & waste streams 17 March 2021 BioVale: Anaerobic Digestion event: Compulsory …

FEBRUARY 21 Events Roundup

RSC Webinar: Marine Plastics: From Local to Global 16 February 2021 The Royal Society: You and the planet – air 16 February 2021 E3BNet Metals in Biology: Seminar series Probing metalloenzyme catalysis with time-resolved crystallographic and spectroscopic methods at X-ray free-electron lasers, 17 February 2021 The challenge to correctly measure …

FEBRUARY 21 Funding Roundup

Future Leaders Fellowships: Round 6 23 February 2021 Leverhulme: Early Career Fellowships 25 February 2021 IBioIC/ALGAE-UK: POC Call – “Industrial Biotechnology Applications of Algae in Food and Novel Food Ingredients” 26 February 2021 Carbon Recycling Network: 2nd POC Call: ‘Towards Net Zero with waste gas utilization’ 28 February 2021 RAE: …

Webinar Outcomes – “FOG/Fatberg Mitigation and Societal Behaviour – Aspects of Environmental Biotech”

SYNOPSIS The new EBNet Webinar series replaced our annual Research Colloquium with top-quality, specialist webinars on a range of EB topics. Concluding the 2020-21 programme with “FOG/Fatberg Mitigation and Societal Behaviour – Aspects of Environmental Biotech” were Dr Mar Batista, British Water and Natalia Jawiarczyk, Cranfield University. A combination of …

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. …

Responsible Innovation: Industrial Biotechnology and Engineering Biology

Mon 25 Jan 21 10:30-14:00, online EBNet is pleased to be participating in this event hosted by the Carbon Recycling Network, the Nottingham BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre, and the ENGICOIN project, in collaboration with the Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham. Registration (which closes at 8 am, Mon 25 Jan) and further details …