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The Guidance Manual in Now Available

The final call for The CarbonRecycling Business Interaction Vouchers are now open.

The final call for CarbonRecycling Proof of Concept is now open.

On 10th August the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero published the long-awaited Biomass Strategy.

Our first workshop “Metabolic Modelling”, a 4 day residential event held at Mercure Hotel, Nottingham

Proposals are invited to write a Responsible & safe handling of C1 gases in microbiology labs guidance manual – Deadline to apply is Thursday 24 March 5pm

BBSRC ICURe Launch is the leading biosciences pre-accelerator helping teams validate their business ideas

The BBSRC is supporting and investing in bioscience that delivers world-class outputs, outcomes and impacts to society and the economy

To coincide with COP26

Microbial gas fermentation: A carbon-negative, sustainable route to biofuels, bioplastics and industrial chemicals at scale

UKRI-BBSRC asks for community input on artificial intelligence in the biosciences

Deadline for responses – 22 September 2021

Call for Evidence on the role of biomass in achieving net zero

Dr Joanna Sparks recently took up the position of Biomass Policy Fellow

On Wednesday 16th June, Carbon Recycling Network Member and PhD student François Seys gave a 50 minute talk to a U3A (University of the Third Age) audience.

They will now be acting as a distributor for NCIMB’s range of microbial identification services

Applications close 9 July 2021

Offering a diverse range of routes to a career in the bioindustries

Nottingham, UK – Deep Branch, a carbon dioxide recycling company, today announced it has completed an €8M Series A investment round. 

8 – 17 February 2021

Members of The Carbon Recycling Network participate in Net-Zero Live 2020

Members of The Carbon Recycling Network – Deep Branch, have secured further investment to scale up the sustainable generation of protein

Switzerland’s largest retail company, Migros, and its subsidiary, Mibelle Group, have launched a new range of cleaning products, containing LanzaTech ethanol made from recycled pollution.

Our article, is found on page 44 of the 20 June 2020 edition

The BBSRC are seeking individuals with a first-class track record of academic achievement in any branch of the biological sciences and proven strategic and analytical thinking to join as the Deputy Executive Chair for UKRI-BBSRC.

This project will be based in the BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre (SBRC) of the Biodiscovery Institute and will be supervised by Professor Nigel P Minton

At the BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre (SBRC) in Nottingham

From the Biomass Biorefinery Network (BBNet)

CCnet has been re-branded to ‘The Carbon Recycling Network’

Joint UK-India investment of £10 million

Wollaton Park, on Saturday 7th March 2020

10 – 12 February 2020

WRAP is a catalyst for positive economic and environmental action

A champion appointed by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Organised by the Biochemical Society

Registration is now open!

CCnet hosts an outreach exhibition stand in London

All the latest funding calls announced

Public views on using bacteria to make chemicals from waste gases

Waste plastic to hydrogen facilities in Cheshire, UK

Novo Holdings is making a $72 million investment in LanzaTech

Animation created to explain Gas Fermentation

WONDER: A COMMUNITY EVENT TO AMAZE AND INSPIRE

CCnet at SynbiTECH 2019

The three-day workshop drew together leading UK and Brazilian synthetic biologists and industrial biotechnologists from both academia and industry

The aviation industry is under pressure to reduce carbon emissions

New NIBBs announced

Nominations have now opened for the 2020 Biochemical Society Awards – the field’s most prestigious awards that recognize established researchers as well as scientists in the early stages of their career.

C1net member Prof Will Zimmerman and Pratik Desai’s project ‘Anaerobic Digestion Cycle – Sustainably Intensified Anaerobic Digestion with Novel Biagas Sweetening’ was highly commended in the best project of the year category at the annual AD & Biogas Industry Awards.

The event organised by the University of Nottingham-led C1net – a BBSRC-NIBB (Network in Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy), took place at The Royal Society, London on 11 July 2018.

LanzaTech is planning a 40-50 million litres per year plant that would convert ethanol produced from waste industrial gases into jet fuel.

China- UK Workshop on “Carbon Recycling” held at the Institute of Microbiology Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMCAS), Beijing, 3 – 5 June 2018

EuropaBio has published a report highlighting the fundamental role of IB in delivering solutions for a large majority of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) both in the EU and globally.

The new “National Industrial Biotechnology Strategy to 2030” was launched on 6th June

Microbiologist Prof Frank Sargent of Dundee University and C1net member has been investigating E.coli, carbon capture and bioenergy.

Full proposal for an RCUK Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Hub.

Significant progress on a waste to chemicals platform.

IBiolC Annual Conference Glasgow, 25-26 January 2018 attended by C1net sponsored speaker Christophe Mihalcea, LanzaTech

Developing a commercial project.

FeedKind® protein has been approved for use as an ingredient in organic systems for animal feed in the United Kingdom and EU by Organic Farmers & Growers (OF&G).

C1net member publishes paper

SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD. and LanzaTech announce breakthrough in conversion of municipal solid waste to ethanol.

The first refinery off gas to ethanol production facility.

Dr Müller of Goethe-University Frankfurt has received one of these prestigious awards

Scientists are trying to find a new way to produce the nutritional fatty acids called Omega 3 that are currently sourced from fish oil from the world’s declining natural fish stocks.

There is significant potential for the industrial scaling up of the new process which uses ‘gas-eating’ bacteria to ferment polluting greenhouse gases from landfill and industry into useful products like biofuels and plastics.

BioSyntha and ZuvaChem Announce a Merger and Financing to Form ZuvaSyntha Ltd. Combining excellence in industrial biotechnology

Lanzatech Jet Fuel “Lanzanol” was produced in China at the Shougang demonstration facility.