Thank you to everyone who attended our 6th Annual Environmental Biotechnology Network at Newcastle University.
Big congratulations go to Hannah Bird, Newcastle University and Albert Woodward-Rowe, University of Surrey for jointly winning our presentation prize. The level of competition was exceptionally high this year, so well done to all our presentation session winners too!
Session 1b: Kelly Jobling, Newcastle University
Session 2a: Kathleen Dunbar, University of Surrey
Session 2b: Sergio Serrano Blanco, Newcastle University
Session 3a: Zinnia Mansoor, University of Wolverhampton
Session 3b: Chiara Santi, Cranfield University
Session 4a: Yixing Sui, University of Greenwich
Session 4b: Albert Woodward-Rowe, University of Surrey
Session 5a: Hannah Bird, Newcastle University
Session 5b: Nicholas Davison, University of Reading
Congratulations also to our Poster Prize Winner, Rohit Murali, University of Surrey, with 2nd prize winner Bruno Casimiro, Newcastle University and joint 3rd prize winners Ariadna Vidal Herrera, Newcastle University and Uzma, University of Glasgow.
This is the last ECR conference for EB Network (which ends in March 2025), though we do have lots of other activities coming up, so watch this space. It has been an honour and a privilege for Louise Byfield and I to see so many of you grow and develop your skills, science and careers over the past decade.
Registration is now closed for this FREE event. If you were an attendee, you will have been sent a link to access photos – let us know if you need the link.
The detailed Agenda is HERE.
The up-to-date Joining Instructions can be found HERE (24/06/24). Note that these request you to bring a laptop for the workshop, has details of our special journal issue and also has instructions for those notified for the BEWISe visit.
ECR24 Outline Agenda:
WEDNESDAY 24th July:
- 14:00 – 16:00 hrs (exact timings tbc) Site visit to BEWISe* in the afternoon (Optional, limited places).
- 17:00 – 18:00 hrs: Registration at The Frederick Douglass Centre (FDC) Newcastle
- 18:00 hrs: Plenary session at FDC: Professor Victor de Lorenzo, Head of Systems Biology Program, Centro Nacional de Biotechnologia Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Madrid: “Moving from the Petri dish to the environment – and growing professionally in the process”
- 19:00 hrs: Informal drinks reception at The Frederick Douglass Centre, Newcastle
THURSDAY 25th July:
- Presentation & poster sessions at The Frederick Douglass Centre, Newcastle all day.
- Plus Evening Dinner at the Copthorne Hotel from 19:00 hrs for 19:30 hrs.
FRIDAY 26th July:
- Presentation & poster sessions at The Frederick Douglass Centre all day.
- Close.
*Newcastle University’s new Biological Engineering: Wastewater Innovation at Scale (BEWISe) facility is the first of its type in Europe in large-scale wastewater treatment research using bacteria.
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ECR24, Newcastle – Group Photo
Are you a UK-based ECR* working in Environmental Biotechnology? Join us in 2024 for ECR24.
Last year we attracted over 90 people to Edinburgh with an array of interesting talks, top plenary speakers and prizes for the best contributors. This year this entirely FREE* conference will feature a site visit, workshops, a drinks reception, dinner, and two full days of fascinating presentations from ECRs working in the latest hot topics from across the country. We support attendance with a generous accommodation & travel bursary.
Contextualise your research, meet useful people and practice your communication skills with us. We cover all aspects of EB so you can be sure to see something new from our cross-disciplinary community of researchers and practitioners. No results to share yet? Our poster session is ideal for new PhD students to showcase their proposed research. Join us and look forward to network with peers from across the UK in 2024. Do you have new colleagues who need to network? We love to meet more people working in EB. Share the details with this Flyer.
Key dates:
Registration/Abstract deadline: 20 May 2024
Notification: From early June 2024
Step 1 – Register HERE.
Step 2 – Take a look at the ABSTRACT guidelines (~300 words) and email it to us (EBNet@EBNet.ac.uk) asap to secure a place. Indicate your preference – presentation or poster. Regretfully, if we cannot fit you in as a presentation you will be offered a poster place instead.
Step 3 – Notification of a place (poster or presentation) will follow the deadline for early June. We will send details of our travel bursary scheme to you then.
Step 4 – Send us an advance copy of your presentation (for safekeeping) or poster (for FREE printing and display).
Step 5 – Join us in Newcastle.
Hi. Would you like to join the organising team for this event? We need some ECR volunteers to help on the day, and with some light admin tasks in advance. Just email EBNet@EBNet.ac.uk to say you are interested. Many hands make light work!
(*only available to EBNet members based in a UK institution or company. Travel bursaries are pre-approved up to £200 for travel and another £165 towards 2 nights’ accommodation. Further details will be provided in due course about the preferred accommodation provider – Motel One, Newcastle – and how to claim.)