(1/3) 🎉Congratulations to James Chong who has recently been selected (as one of three globally) Oracle for Research Fellows for their Spring 2023 cohort. This industrially-funded fellowship includes a cash award of £81,000 and £132,200 of Oracle Cloud compute credits.

James Chong Oracle (2/3) The credits will be used for the project 'Using shotgun metagenomics data to develop a synthetic anaerobic digestion (AD) community'. Although James officially holds the award, the successful application was a team effort driven by Sarah Forrester and Annabel Cansdale.

James Chong Oracle Sarah Forrester Annabel Cansdale (3/3) Both Sarah and Annabel are part of the Centre of Excellence for Anaerobic Digestion (CEAD), and were heavily involved in preparing the application, and who will make use of the Cloud compute award throughout this project.

Explore the latest science at the Royal Society's #SummerScience Exhibition, from finding out how drumming could be good for your brain to exploring how to sense the next eruption of a quiet volcano. Find out more about the fascinating exhibits: royalsociety.org/science-events…

Have you checked out the full programme for the #SummerScience exhibtion 2023? With talks, activities, Lates and over three hundred scientists talking about their research, find out more about this celebration of exciting research: royalsociety.org/science-events…

Had a fantastic launch event for Data Discoveries 2023, huge thank you to Cristin Merritt from Alces Flight for opening the event, and to @er13_r for zooming in! There are still plenty of tickets left for people to join us for the rest of the 2-week event: eventbrite.co.uk/o/data-discove…

Had such a good time today at Biology at York’s Research Away Day 2023, presenting my PhD work (supervised by J. Brett Sallach and James Chong), loved doing the turbo-talk as an advert for the poster, and huge thank you to Katherine Bridge, PhD for the mid-talk photo!🧬🌱 #RAD2023

I found all matching microbes in 28 seconds! How about you? Play here: cead.shinyapps.io/shiny-memory-h… #SummerScience @cead_york - A nice little afternoon job making this with Annabel Cansdale!!🦠

Super excited to be heading to London to the The Royal Society to talk about #AnaerobicDigestion #DNASequencing and #Microbiomes with the attendees at #SummerScience with CEAD this week! 🦠🧬🌱 James Chong Annabel Cansdale If you’re there come and say hi to us!

On our way to The Royal Society #summerscience!

Really looking forward to today!! If you’re heading to The Royal Society #summerscience, come find us in the “Healthy Planet” exhibition!

Early start for CEAD to be part of The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. We’ll be talking about poo all day! Biology at York University of York

Getting the MK1C set up ready! Come catch us doing some live DNA sequencing in Healthy Planet Oxford Nanopore The Royal Society #SummerScience

Great to see so many engaged and informed discussions going on during our Waste as a Bioresource networking lunch. Liz Rylott James Chong

Lots of good things talked about at the ⁦YESI⁩ Waste as a Bioresource Workshop with ⁦James Chong⁩ and ⁦Liz Rylott⁩ setting the scene. Great to catch up with people incl ⁦BBNet⁩ ⁦⁦High Value Biorenewables Network⁩ ⁦Biorenewables Development Centre⁩ ⁦⁦@BioVale_Cluster⁩

Very pleased that Biology at York BioYorkshire have been awarded TWO Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Prosperity Partnerships with Yorkshire Water 💧 and Croda Personal Care! One of them CEAD york.ac.uk/news-and-event…