Postponed until further notice.

Please join RSC for the fourteenth annual meeting exploring the chemistry and biology of natural products covering subjects from synthetic chemistry to microbial genetics. The 2020 edition will be run as an ECR satellite meeting with Directing Biosynthesis VI.

This meeting is kindly sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry Journals, Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Biology and Bioorganic Group, and Syngenta. One lunch, a wine reception/dinner and prizes for the best talks and posters are all included.

For enquires please contact:

Matthew Jenner (m.jenner@warwick.ac.uk) or Fabrizio Alberti (f.alberti@warwick.ac.uk).

Upcoming deadlines

27th April 2020: Oral abstracts deadline
25th May 2020: Poster abstract deadline
25th May 2020: Standard registration deadline

This event is for industry, academia, farmers, growers, government and funders involved in the Plants and Crops sector.

Tuesday, 9 June 2020 09:30 am – 12:30 pm
This event will be live streamed via webcast

The event will bring together a varied audience including industry, academia, farmers, growers, government and funders. We want to achieve an Agri-Tech Industry opinion around Integrated Pest Management (IPM) to drive compelling discussions during and after the event.

Here’s an overview of what to expect:

•  Scene-setting presentations including an overview of IPM approaches

•  Thoughts on the current agricultural landscape in the UK, how IPM is being used and future opportunities

•  A discussion around opportunities (e.g. funding) to support future work in this area

•  An interactive session to gather audience input on challenges and opportunities for IPM

Why attend?

The event will bring together a varied audience including industry, academia, farmers,growers, government and funders. We want to achieve an Agri-Tech Industry opinion around Integrated Pest Management (IPM) to drive compelling discussions during and after the event.

What to expect?

• Scene-setting presentations including an overview of IPM approaches
• Thoughts on the current agricultural landscape in the UK, how IPM is being used and future opportunities
• A discussion around opportunities (e.g. funding) to support future work in this area
• An interactive session to gather audience input on challenges and opportunities for IPM

The full agenda will be published a few weeks before the event.
This event is organised by ​the Knowledge Transfer Network​ and the ​Institute for Sustainable Food at the ​University of Sheffield​.

Is your company developing disruptive technologies? Want to understand how to manage risk, build trust and commercialise these technologies? Join GlobalScot Andrew Powell, expert on developing strategies to communicating risk, at this workshop in Glasgow on 29th November.

Aim of the event and learning outcomes

This full day workshop will introduce the concept of risk communication and how it differs from public relations and science communication.  It will indicate where risks arise in the invention to innovation journey and encourage delegates to consider the fact that not everyone may view innovation in the same way you do.  It will dispel the myth that increasing someone’s technical knowledge will mean they accept and understand your position.  You will also be introduced to the Outrage Concept, the fact that risk is personal and people need to know you care before they care about what you know.

You will be given the tools to address a risk you are currently facing in your innovation journey, whether it’s the public acceptance of a new product or service, or you are challenging the status quo in the use of repurposing a feedstock for your process.  Using the guiding principles of trust determination, attention span theory and negative dominance, you will be supported to spend the afternoon reviewing your risk and drafting a message map for your issue or question.

This event is targeted at:

• CEO/CSO-level in startup, small and medium sized organisations

• Those with business development or communications remits in public or private sector organisations including innovation centres

• Strategic funding managers/Research and Innovation staff within academia

• Academics, Research staff and PhD students that engage the public in their research

Cost

Non-members £375
Large company members £350
Academics and member start ups/SMEs £325
All refreshments will be included in the course fee payable by invoice.

Location

The Collins Building, 22 Richmond Street, Glasgow.
Arrival & Registration – Level 2, 9am
Event – Room 1 on level 2

All event spaces in the building are accessible, please indicate at the point of registration if you require additional support to attend the event.

Programme

09.00 – 09.30   Arrival, registration, refreshments
09.30 – 12.30  Workshop with refreshment break
12.30 – 13.00  Lunch
13.00 – 14.00  Workshop
14.00 – 16.00  Message map exercise with refreshments available
16.00 – 16.15  Summary, future work and close

Delivered by Dr Andrew D Powell CEO and Co-founder (Asia Biobusiness)

Andrew founded Asia BioBusiness with Professor Paul Teng in 2005 and has worked with a broad range of clients from the both public and private sectors. Clients include Bayer, Syngenta, Dupont BioSciences and Nutrition, International Fragrance Association, Tate and Lyle, Temasek Holdings, USDA), UNEP-GEF / Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Climate Change, India, Inter American Development Bank/Government of Panama, Agricultural Biotechnology Council of Australia, Asia Productivity Organisation, Scottish Enterprise, Enterprise Ireland, National Innovation Agency, Thailand,  AusBiotech, Biotechnology Corporation, Malaysia, NZBIO, etc.

Asia BioBusiness works with companies and organizations to foster innovation and effective communication, and provide critical support to assist entrepreneurs in nurturing ideas and turning them into profitable businesses. It also specialises in developing effective communication strategies for new technologies to enhance understanding and acceptance within key target groups e.g. regulators, investors, media and the lay public.

Andrew has considerable experience in stakeholder dialogues, facilitations and public fora across the region, and is invited regularly to chair sessions at global technology conferences.

Over the last 15 years he has been active in area of Risk Communication, conducting training and offering advice to both public and private sector clients. He is the co-author with Dr Andrew Roberts of “The Lowdown: Risk Communication, Dodging the Bullet in Controversy and Crisis” published by Creative Content Digital, London and available via iTunes, Audible, and as an eBook (launch September 2010).

Andrew is a proud member of the Global Scot community (www.globalscot.com) – a worldwide network of entrepreneurial and inspirational business leaders, dedicated to supporting Scotland’s most ambitious companies and supported by Scottish Enterprise.  In this role, Andrew will deliver a 1-day training course on behalf of IBioIC to support organisations in the sector to give due consideration to the importance of risk communication when disrupting the status quo and seeking social licence. 

Additional background

Andrew Powell graduated from the University of Edinburgh with honours in Biology and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Calgary, Canada. He has held research and academic positions at the University of Guelph, Canada, the National Institute for Health Sciences in Tokyo, and Tsukuba, Japan and the National University of Singapore.

Andrew has been a member of the Alberta Government’s Research and Innovation Advisory Committee (ARIAC) from 2017 to 2019. He is also on the Advisory Committee of The Scientific American / BioIndustry Organization Worldview Publication. From 2012 to 2017 he sat on the advisory board for Syngenta’s Rice Bowl Index.

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The University of Strathclyde’s Science Faculty works with businesses in a number of ways. Our Science @ Strathclyde Business Breakfast provides an opportunity for you and your business to learn more about how we can work with you to support your company. In addition, it provides a forum for businesses to engage with each other and to share their successes and challenges.

Date – Wednesday 29th May
SIPBS Hamnett Wing, 161 Cathedral Street, Glasgow, G4 0RE

Professor Sue Pyne from the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences will lead our next Business Breakfast. Sue will outline the Industrial PhD programme and the benefits of working towards a PhD while conducting high quality research for your employer in the normal course of your work. Individuals remain employed by the partner company throughout the programme and are registered at, and jointly supervised by, the University. Benefits to employers include more highly trained and invested employees.

We will be delighted to welcome Professor Amy Robertson from our partner AstraZeneca who will present on the topic ‘The Benefits of PhDs to Industrial-Academic Partnerships’.

Amy is the Principal Scientist for Crystal and Particle Science in Pharmaceutical Technology and Development at AstraZeneca. She has a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Bristol and worked as Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Manchester for 3 years before moving to an industrial role. She has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for over 15 years in team manager and scientific positions. Her role is at the interface of drug substance and drug product development and focuses on developing manufacturing processes for the scale up of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs).  For the past 8 years she has represented AstraZeneca on the CMAC (Continuous Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallisation) technical committee working with academic and industrial partners to deliver new science and technology. In 2015 she was appointed as a Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde.

The event will start at 8:15am with registration tea, coffee and breakfast rolls with presentations commencing at 8:30am. There will be ample opportunity for networking with other attendees after the presentations. To find out more and register see https://www.strath.ac.uk/science/workingwithbusinessindustry/sciencestrathclydebusinessbreakfast/

Aquaculture Careers 2019 organized by the Aquaculture Students’ Association (ASA) at the Institute of Aquaculture.

Aquaculture Careers 2019 will take place on 20th May and will run from 09.15 – 16.00 at the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling.

In the last two years the event attracted 150 – 200 students of MSc/PhD level with a keen interest in Aquaculture.

For further information, contact Carolina Fernandez (carolina.fernandez@stir.ac.uk), President of the ASA.

The next industrial/academic cross-sector Workshop on the subject of Biofilm Engineering will take place on Tuesday April 30th (10:00 – 16:00) at the EICC, Edinburgh.

From 10:00-10:30 there will be coffee and networking, lunch and refreshments will also be provided and we will finish at 16:00

Please email nbic@biofilms.ac.uk to express your interest in participating in this workshop.

Background
This will be an essential session for anyone in an industrial or academic setting with an interest in biofilms and exploiting an understanding of their uses at the interface with engineering and process applications and who is keen to meet others who share this interest. This event is open to all commercial/industrial concerns with an interest in the subject and to UK academics whose institution is either currently, or plans to be, a member of NBIC.

We will be discussing how to harness the benefits from knowledge of biofilm composition, function, ecology and evolution. This includes developing and improving engineered platforms and solutions e.g. wastewater, biotechnology, resource recovery from wastewater, microbial fuel cells, aerobic and anaerobic bio-refinery. The scope for this theme also includes precision tools for microbial community engineering using synthetic biology.

Copies of the report on our first workshop (Biofilm Detection) are available on request.

The IBioIC Skills team is running STEM Ambassador training for students on 29th March in Glasgow.

Aileen Hamilton from Science Connects will deliver STEM Ambassador training which is essential to gaining accreditation in this area.

The training session will commence at 1pm and finish around 2.30pm and will take place in room Cathedral Wing 406a (4th floor), Strathclyde Business School, 199 Cathedral Street, Glasgow.

This course is for PhD, MSc, HND students and Industry members.

Please read the STEM Ambassador Induction Information and Privacy Notice attached and

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Discover the Next Generation of talent being educated through the collaborative MSc in IB to meet the industry-need for graduate level employees with a broad grounding in the sector, which builds on their first degree knowledge.

This unique qualification sees the students being taught at a variety of Scottish institutions renowned for their expertise in a specific discipline in an IB context.  The MSc will prepare students for employment in careers such as Bioprocess Engineer; Fermentation Scientist; Research Scientist in a range of fields.

This event will be an opportunity for your organisation to meet a subset of our cohort who have opted for the “Blue Biotech” elective delivered at SAMS in a weeklong intensive course that sees them undertake a range of practical and theoretical classes to learn about algae, seaweed and the applications and implications of these rich resources.  Can you afford to miss out on attracting this future talent?

Register now to take part in this pitching, networking and information session hosted by the IBioIC Skills Team at SAMS.

Event format
09.45 – 10.15  Registration, refreshments provided
10.15 – 11.15  Welcome and opening remarks, Rules of engagement, Speed pitches from organisations
11.15 – 11.45  Networking and refreshments
11.45 – 12.30  Skills Team – opportunities new workforce and upskill existing
12.30 – 13.30  Lunch and Networking

Each employer is invited to pitch for 5 minutes, which we suggest contains the following information:

• Organisation name, location, size.

• Summary of organisation remit.

• Types of role that an MSc student could conduct within the organisation.

• The attributes an employee will need to get on well within the organisation (skills, interests and behaviours).

Following all pitches there will be a chance to meet the students over refreshments and answer any questions they have, starting to get an understanding about their aspirations. 
The students will then go back to their lecture and you are invited to stay and hear about the latest opportunities available to up or cross skill your existing workforce and find out how you can engage with the IBioIC training programmes to offer placements or deliver talks/workshops to the current and future cohorts.  You are then welcome to join us for lunch.

Perceived outcomes are for you to gain an appreciation of the next generation of students to enter the IB workforce at MSc level and continue conversations with any individuals that could be potential employees; hear about opportunities on offer through the IBioIC training programmes.

If possible, please supply any slides in advance (12th March noon) to skills@ibioic.com.

Additional members of staff from your organisation are welcome to attend the event, select the appropriate option at the point of registration.

Please find more information in the attached Employer Brief

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Privacy Notice Employer Engagement Event 13 March

Skills Development Scotland are organising a special event, during Scottish Apprenticeship Week, through the Scottish Apprenticeship Advisory Board (SAAB).

The purpose of the event is to showcase different apprenticeships, debunk any myths and hear from other employers about the practical steps involved in taking on an apprentice, as well as the positive impact that apprentices can have on your organisation.

This event is open to companies who don’t employ apprentices, don’t know where to start or are thinking of extending their current apprentice offer – with a particular focus on SMEs.

The workshop is being supported by FSB Employer of Year AJ Engineering and SAAB members Robertson Group, Balfour Beatty and Scottish Water.

Workshop themes:

• why apprenticeships work

• debunking the myths of apprenticeships

• skills to suit your business: an overview of the apprenticeship 'family'

• apprenticeships in practice: employers' stories

The first opportunity for organisations to meet our cohort of HND students who are preparing to enter the workforce.

Discover the Next Generation of talent being educated in Scottish Colleges to meet the industry-need for entry level employees.  In partnership with IBioIC, an HND in Industrial Biotechnology was designed to equip students with a broad understanding of biology, chemistry and process engineering in an IB context.  The HND will prepare students for employment in careers such as Science Laboratory Technician; Research Scientist; Process Operator and Production Scientist.

This event will be the first opportunity for your organisation to meet our cohort of students who are preparing to enter the workforce.  Can you afford to miss out on attracting this future talent?

Date: 5th February 2019 09:00 - 11:00

Venue: Level 9 Executive Suite B, TIC, 99 George St, Glasgow, G1 1RD

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We invite you to join this student-led Symposium which will focus on the role industrial biotechnology plays in today's society.

Programme

9.30 – 10.00  Registration and tea/coffee
10:00–10:30  Ice-breaker
10:30-11:00  Introduction (Rachel Clark & Ian Archer)

11:00–12:00  Session 1: Plastics (Chair: Martina Daute)
11:00-11:15  Update on the Plastic Biodegradability Report
11:15-11:30  Joanna Sadler - Plastics as a substrate for the circular bioeconomy: past, present and future
11:30–12:00  Discussion Panel – Answer to the Plastic Problem

12:00-13:00  Lunch (Poster viewing)

13:00–14:30  Session 2: What Can IB Contribute to… (Thematic Groups) (Chair: Scarlet Ferrinho)
10 min poster presentation and 5 min discussion on each topic:
- Food security and waste
- Healthcare
- Essential resources from sustainable sources
- Impact of textile industry
- Protecting Our Oceans

14:30 – 14:50  Tea/coffee break

14:50 – 15:00 National Skills Landscape – Ronnie Palin, Skills Development Scotland

15:00 – 17:00  Session 3: Public Engagement (Chair: Alison Hughes)
15:00-15:30  Brian Eggo - Glasgow Skeptics
15:30 – 16:00  Kenneth MacDonald - BBC Scotland
16:00-17:00  Inspire and Challenge, Susan Meikleham, Glasgow Science Centre
17:00 – 18:00  Drinks Reception (optional)

Thank you to Ronnie Palin, Skills Development Scotland for sponsoring our event

The Good, The Bad and The Biotech: IBioIC Annual Symposium 2019 will take place on 29th Januray 2019 at the Insight Institute, Collins Building, 16 Richmond St., Glasgow, G1 1XQ

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