A warm welcome to new BBSRC Council members
Dr Neil Parry Unilever and Andy Griffiths Diageo News

Pre-announcement: funding to provide peer support, networking and related activities for people who identify as being part of a group currently under-represented within your network.

📆 Call opens: 15 Apr
✍️ Register for launch webinar: 18 Apr at 10am

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Missed the webinar for the Bioinformatics and Biological Resources Fund (24BBR)? 😞

Don't worry, the recording of the applicant briefing is now available online:
📽️ youtu.be/Zz_CshNzSE4

Link to the funding opportunity guidelines can be found in the video description.

We are pleased to welcome the first two companies, Matrix Bio and Plasma Fresh, on to the Bio BIC programme, a collaboration between Science and Technology Facilities Council and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research to support biotechnology start-ups.

We look forward to watching their progress.

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Great to see this landed: important investment in core 21stC digital & microscopy research platforms for frontier S+T capabilities.

With big applications in 🦠Biosecurity
🔮Bioeconomy 🧬EngBio🧪Materials science …

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research BioIndustry Association (BIA) European Bioeconomy 삐아 Gates Foundation

Funding opportunity to collaborate with partners in Southeast Asia on infectious diseases with antimicrobial resistance and epidemics potential. Closes 30 May. Apply: orlo.uk/eSdgh

If we are going to:

🌾feed 9bn global population
🥩find new sources of protein
🌎avoid climate catastrophe
🌲absorb tons of GHGs 💨

We need to harness a whole new suite of technologies: #agritech

Grt to be back Rothamsted Research Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research - one of the UK’s premier #AgriSci campuses:

📄✨ Our new Infrastructure Strategic Framework is a must-read for anyone in the UK bioscience community.

With this framework, we'll make sure you can access the adaptive, resilient, sustainable infrastructure needed to deliver world-class research: orlo.uk/ATelo

Apply for funding to implement, improve or consolidate bioinformatics or biological resources in support of UK bioscience.

Now open - 2024 round of BBSRC’s Bioinformatics and Biological Resources Fund (24BBR).

Applicant briefing | 25 March at 11am:
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🚨 Last chance to register for the BBSRC biological diversity community workshop.

You’ll get the chance to engage in an interactive and participatory virtual workshop that will help to define future BBSRC strategy, gathering views on:

- Key challenges
- Drivers
- Opportunities

Pleased to be part of the U.S. National Science Foundation Global Centers initiative for a 2nd year

In 2024, it's all about diving into the bioeconomy to tackle global challenges head-on. There’s £8.5m funding available for UK researchers with bold visions that promise high impact.

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As part of this long-term support, over £7 million will be invested from BBSRC to co-fund three centres for doctoral training (CDTs).

Supporting research in areas of national importance, these CDTs will pave the way for research in critical technologies ⬇️

Co-chaired by Science Minister Andrew Griffith MP, the Engineering Biology Steering Group is at the heart of the UK's vision to be a global science superpower.

Help bring this vision to life by applying to become a member of the group before 11:55pm on 17 March.
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📢 Investment funding puts Nottingham at the heart of government innovation strategy.

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology funding for spin-out Cerca Magnetics Limited

UK Research and Innovation Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research funding for UoN Life Sciences to lead GlycoCell Engineering Biology Mission Hub.

#WeAreUoN Andrew Griffith MP UoN Physics & Astronomy UoN Life Sciences

We’re spilling the beans! The UK has developed its first crop of homegrown designer legumes.

Three newly developed varieties bring benefits incl:

- Improved gut health
- Increased food diversity and UK self-sufficiency
- Accelerated genetic techniques

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.Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is calling on experts from academia, SMEs and industry to help steer the UK's vision for engineering biology by joining the Engineering Biology Steering Group.

Details
👉 orlo.uk/idWbo

Are you ready to make a difference?

Don’t have a partner yet for this Diet and Health Innovation competition? 🙋

Join us on 18 March for a consortium building event brought to you by Innovate UK Business Connect.

Register below:
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Today marks the 30th year of BBSRC-funded Babraham Institute's annual Schools' Day.

This event brings together researchers to join secondary and sixth-form students to guide them through hands-on lab projects and showcase the variety of careers in science:

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If we're to support our world's growing population in the next decades, more sustainable methods to source food need to be developed.

Learn more about the crucial work in aquaculture genomics that Earlham Institute are looking into, supported by funding from BBSRC.

Funding opportunity for food and beverage innovations.

BBSRC and @InnovateUK's Diet and Health Innovation competition offers between £100k and 250k for academic and business feasibility collaboration projects that support wellbeing.

More:
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