Environmental Biotechnology Network

CIWM webinar: Upskilling for a circular economy – 31 Oct 2025

Date: 31 Oct 2025, 11:00 UKĀ  Register HERE. A webinar organised by the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) will discuss the most critical skills required for the transition from a linear to a more circular economy, identify when these are needed and explore how they can be secured. Prof …

Horizon Water4All 2025 Joint Transnational Call

Submission deadline: 13 Nov 2025 The Horizon Europe Partnership Water4All has launched its next call for proposals under the theme ā€˜Water and Health’. UK participants are welcome. The call aims to support research and innovation projects addressing key challenges related to the link between water and human health, including water …

Faraday Discovery Fellowships – Accelerated International Route

Round 2 and 3 closing dates: 25 Nov 2025, 25 Feb 2025 The Royal Society‘s Faraday Discovery FellowshipsĀ are prestigious long-term awards that support the most talented research leaders to undertake high-quality, original research. The Accelerated International Route, established in 2025, is intended for outstanding international researchers nominated by their UK …

Frozen fun – with interesting lipids

A recent paper looks at the revival rates for microorganisms found in ancient permafrost cores from the Permafrost Research Tunnel near Fairbanks, Alaska. The researchers compared microbial growth rates, marker gene sequences and greenhouse gas (CO2, CH4) emissions across cores held anaerobically at ambient (āˆ’4°C) and elevated (4°C, 12°C) temperatures. …

RS Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship – closing 12 Nov 2025

The Royal Society‘s Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship aims seeks to provide opportunities for experienced senior and mid-career researchers to focus on full-time research for up to one year, by relieving them of all teaching, administrative and pastoral care duties during that period. Preference will be given to candidates who, …

Official launch of TERC Better Water for All Network+

The Better Water for All Network+, led by Dr Bing Guo of the University of Surrey, was successfully launched on 3 Oct 2025 in an event that brought stakeholders together to discuss how we can achieve a sustainable water future and tackle the challenges of chemical and biological micropollutants. The …

Green Stories – October 2025 highlights

Every month we are highlighting selected items from our Green Stories: Microbes to the Rescue anthology, equivalent to about 30 mins in the AudiobookĀ version.Ā The anthology is also available as a freeĀ eBookĀ on theĀ ResourcesĀ page. This month’s authors are both from Australia but with rather different stories to tell: Chapter 7:Ā  Interview with …

BBIA/GCSB Bioplastics webinar – available to view

The Bio-based and Biodegradable Industries Association (BBIA) has kindly made a recent webinar on Bioplastics available to EBNet membersĀ  –Ā  watch it here. The presenter is Prof Jhuma Sadhukhan of the University of Surrey, who is UK Lead for the Global Center for Sustainable bioproducts (GCSB).Ā The webinar covers the following …

WASTE Impact Report 2024 – and a shout-out for its activities

At the suggestion of one EBNet member who is particularly active in this area, a brief shout-out for the work of WASTE, which aims to catalyse scalable, system-level solutions to urgent challenges in the area of sanitation and solid waste management. WASTE is an international organisation that develops and manages …

IBioIC Process Scale-up: online session 15 Oct 2025

Date: 15 Oct 2025, 14-15:00 UK IBioIC is hosting an online session on Reducing Risk in Process Scale-up with Modelling and Simulation. Scaling up from lab to industrial production is one of the most challenging steps in process development. Equipment at industrial scale often behaves very differently to laboratory systems, …

Task 37 Webinar on Biogas systems and Sustainability available now

IEA Bioenergy Task 37’s webinar on The Role of Biogas Systems in Building a Sustainable Society is now available to view for those who missed the live event. The webinar included an introduction to Task 37 by the Task Lead Dr Bernhard Drosg, followed by technical presentations: Sustainability effects associated …

New EBIC podcast episode – and New Scientist Live event

Episode 2 of the Environmental Biotechnology Innovation Centre‘s Podcast Series features Prof Natalio Krasnogor and Yasir Akbar of Newcastle University. In this episode, they discussĀ their pioneering work at the intersection of computer science and engineering biology, with a particular focus on the innovative use of barcodes in engineered microbes. From …