The 2026 Coccus Pocus story competition is now open for entries. This year’s theme is microbial therapeutics against pathogens and AMR microbes and their biofilms, so plenty to interest EBNet members. Participants must submit a short story of 500 to 2000 words. The deadline is 31 October 2026 (Halloween), and …
Last Autumn saw Round 7 of Coccus Pocus, the annual scary story competition for Halloween. The 2025 competition was supported by the Microbiology Society as part of its Knocking Out AMR campaign: the competition organiser Dr Georgios Efthimiou is himself a Microbiology Society Champion. Entrants are asked to write a …
EBNet loves learning about extremophiles, if only because they teach us humility with respect to the limits of our current understanding of individual organisms; never mind that of the complex microbial communities which we harness for environmental protection and remediation. In the present example, scientists from Spain and Germany have …
IBioIC: Careers Day – Exhibit from Industry – 26 July 2023, GlasgowCircularChem: Circular Chemical Economy Summer School 2023 – 5-7 September 2023, Newcastle upon Tyne The Resource and Waste Management Expo – 13/14 September 2023, NEC, BirminghamBCB: Net Zero Chemical Manufacturing – Unlocking the power of biotechnology to transform the UK chemicals industry webinar – 14 …
The Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2023 – 17-20 April 2023, Birmingham International Convention CentreKTN: Circular Critical Materials Supply Chains Networking Event – 19 April 2023, BirminghamBBSRC: strategic Longer and Larger (sLoLa) grants: webinar one and webinar two – 20 April or 26 April 2023Cranfield Water Masterclasses:The PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water – Regulation, …
HVBNet: Introduction to the Nagoya Protocol Webinar – 8 February 2023Postgrad LIVE – 22 February 2023, LondonYorkshire Contaminated Land Forum: Advances in Contaminated Land Assessment and Remediation – 3 March 2023, University of SheffieldMicrobiology Society: Annual Conference – 17-20 April 2023, BirminghamFEMS2023 – 9-13 July 2023, Hamburg, GermanyIBBK: Progress in Manure and Digestate Online Conference – …
E3B: Selective recognition and separation of f-block elements using lanmodulin – 14 December 2022ADBA: Policy Briefing | Food and Farming – 14 December, 2022 Biochemical Society: Xmas Bioenergetics Meeting – 16 December 2022, LondonBBNet Conference: “Green Futures” What’s next for biorefineries? – 22-24 March 2023, HarrogateThe Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2023 – 17-20 April 2023, Birmingham International Convention …
Ed-DaSH WorkshopsFAIR in (biological) practice,14-17 June 2022Introduction to Statistics with R, 5-8 July 2022High-Dimensional Statistics, 26-29 July 2022Introduction to Machine Learning with Python, 23-26 August 2022 Sense about Science Quality and Peer Review Workshop17 June 2022 The Microbiology Society: Cell–Cell Communication in Bacteria – Fundamental and Applied Aspects28–30 June 2022,Cambridge HVB: Bioactives Workshop: …
IBioIC: 8th Annual Conference6/7 June 2022, Glasgow UKRI: Scoping workshops: urban green and blue spaces9 June 2022; 14 June 2022; 16 June 2022 BioVale/THYME Project: Successes and opportunities for the bioeconomy9 June 2022 Plastics, from Cradle to Grave and Resurrection III15 June 2022 EPSRC: Engineering net zero week20-24 June 2022. …
The Carbon Recycling Network:Metabolic Modelling Workshop3-6 May 2022, Nottingham. Expression of interest closes: 14 April 2022. RSC: Emerging Technologies Competition18 April 2022 Royal Society Industry fellowships21 April 2022 KTN: Circular Economy Innovation Network Launch Event26 April 2022 ADBA Report Launch: Food Waste Recycling27 April 2022 UCL: Spring into STEM. Biocatalysis: Engineering a …
The 6th International Conference on Energy and Environmental Science (ICEES 2022) 7-9 January 2022, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia E3B Metals in Biology: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility (Warwick University)12 January 2022 EBNet: “Fishing for Viruses in Sewage”16 December 2021 Biochemical Society: Computational Enzymology: Structure, Function and Evolution of Enzymes3 February 2022 E3B: An …
UKRI: The Net Zero series – Sustainable Supply Chains/Materials/Energy21 September/ 19 October/ 16 November 2021 Policy engagement for Early Career Researchers: The biomass strategy and beyond7 October 2021 E3BNet: The London Metallomics Facility12 October 2021 9th IWA Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering Specialist Conference: Microbial Ecology Data & Principles for …
NBIC: #BiofilmWeek16-22 August 2021 ISWA: Young Professionals Group Online Conference10–11 September 2021 RSC: Chemical Science Symposium 2021: Biohybrid Approaches to Sustainable Energy Conversion13-15 September 2021 Algae-UK, BBNet and IBioIC: Marine Biomass Event16 September 2021 (register by 9 September 2021) Contamination & Geotech Expo 202122-23 September 2021, NEC, Birmingham HVB Annual …
CIWM: Advanced Recycling of Plastics, Extended Producer Responsibility and Festive Waste Minimisation15 December 2020 CIWEM: Global water security webinar6 January 2021 KTN: Launch of the Hydrogen Innovation Network12 January 2021 KTN: Photonics for…Water Industry Challenges26 January 2021 Early Career Women in Water 2021 Conference8 March 2021 1st FERIA: The European …
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