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Welcome to the October 2023 issue of the Engineering Biology (formerly Synthetic Biology) Interdisciplinary Research Centre Newsletter - a round-up of news, events and notices from across the initiative.
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EngBio IRC Early Career Researchers (ECR) Fund
The EngBio IRC supports postgrads and postdocs within the University of Cambridge Synthetic and Engineering Biology community to develop their research skills, enable collaborations with different stakeholders and encourage interdisciplinary, cross-departmental and cross-school events.
We are pleased to fund any event connected to achieving at least one of these aims. Awards will range between £250-£750. We highly encourage you to develop collaborative proposals.
Any questions, feel free to email coordinator@engbio.cam.ac.uk Apply by 15 November 2023.
More information and to apply HERE
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Launching our open technologies website.
We are delighted to launch our 'Accelerating Research Impact with Open Tech' Microsite featuring biomedical technologies, agricultural and sustainability technologies. If you have an open tool or resource you would like to add to our stories please email coordinator@engbio.cam.ac.uk
Website Link
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EngBio Cambridge Open Tech of the Month
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Every month we will feature a new open technology from Cambridge, this month we are presenting
'Covid-19 Sounds App' used to collect voice, breathing, cough sounds from participants. Read more HERE
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EngBio IRC Forum
27 November 2023
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Please save the date of the next Forum "Engineering living systems for human health and wellbeing" which will be on Monday 27 November at St Catharine's College. Follow the link to register your place HERE.
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Share your research news
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Please do contact us at coordinator@engbio.cam.ac.uk as soon as you have an article accepted for publication or would like to share your research news. We would love to help share this to our network.
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ENGBIO EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS (ECRs) MEET & GREET
3rd Monday of Each Month
Postdoc Centres at Mill Lane & Eddington
Join our monthly meet, greet and talk to meet postdocs and postgrads from across the University interested in biology, engineering, design, computer science, bioethics and more. Open to postdocs, postgrads and research staff from across the University and affiliated institutes (MRC-LMB, Babraham, Wellcome Sanger)
Next Meeting: 16 October, 4pm with Guillermo Serrano Nájera, Dept. Genetics ' Inferring individual cell behaviours from the tissue movements' and Georgeos Hardo, Dept. Engineering 'Optical Illusions and Artefacts in the Use of Widefield Microscopy for Microbiology'
NOTE: time change to 4pm-5pm. PostDoc Centre, Basement, 16 Mill Lane.
RSVP here on MEETUP
We need speaker volunteers for future meetings, so if you’re able to give a 10-15 min, overview of your research or a particular tool or technique that you use, please email Vicky at vr314@cam.ac.uk.
Also, please consider subscribing to our PostDocs/Postgrads email list for up to date information at ucam-engbio-postdocs - Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre - info and our Slack Channel to share news, events and network among fellow postdocs, postgrads, PhDs and researchers. Join HERE on Slack Any problems joining, please email coordinator@engbio.cam.ac.uk
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CAFE SYNTHETIQUE
1st Monday of the Month
Panton Arms, Cambridge
We are back on Monday 6 November with Daniela Lobo, Senior Scientist, Cambridge Display Technology Ltd.
RSVP here on Meetup.
Future Dates for your Diary: Mon 4 December
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BIOMAKER MEETUP
3rd Wednesday of Each Month, 7pm-9pm
Cambridge Makespace, 16 Mill Lane
Monthly in-person, informal meetup at the Cambridge Makespace for anyone wanting to repair, design or build lab equipment. Bring your own project to work on (anything involving lab hardware is welcome), take the opportunity to work through Biomaker training with others or join one of the Beneficial Bio community projects.
Wednesday 18 October, 7pm RSVP here on MeetUP
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Online & In-Person Events & News from Around the Web
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Cambridge Opentrons Meet n Greet - 11 October, 10am-11.30am
The Opentrons Team will be visiting Cambridge on Wed 11 Oct and is looking for an opportunity to get to know the OT and automation users. EngBio IRC has kindly agreed to help organise a Cambridge Opentrons User Group Meet-and-Greet event, which will be held at Stephenson Seminar Room, Dept. of Biochemistry, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge.
We welcome you to come along and showcase what/how you currently use your OT-2s and automation workflows, learn more about the Opentrons Flex (including demos of some new Flex components: 96-channel pipette, gripper, and onboard tablet display), and get a chance to network with other OT users within the university.
Agenda and to sign up HERE
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Dept. of Plant Sciences Industry Day - 12 October 12.15pm. Botany Building, Downing Site.
Learn about life in industrial plant research and meet local companies.
Attendees will hear from Mike Nuccio, Senior Director or R&D at Inari, and then be able to meet with a range of companies in the afternoon - and a buffet lunch will be provided in between. See website for more. or email Vicki vicki.marshall@admin.cam.ac.uk
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University spin-offs, start-ups and social enterprises survey (complete by 18 October)
We need your help to improve our data on University spin-offs, start-ups and social enterprises to help secure additional funding for commercialisation and showcase success. By contributing to this exercise you will be helping to improve knowledge and understanding of our entrepreneurial ecosystem and contribute to performance in a range of assessment exercises ensuring we are able to celebrate your achievements and leverage maximum funds for future knowledge exchange activity. Please use the below form to give us more details on your activity before noon on Fri 18th October 2023. Contact impact@admin.cam.ac.uk
https://forms.office.com/e/FiDryDXV9V
Professor Andy Neely FREng
Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Enterprise and Business Relations)
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Cambridge Public Health Showcase - 7 November, Old Divinity School
Calling all early career researchers! We are excited to announce an opportunity to display your research at this year’s Cambridge Public Health Showcase. The in-person event will take place on the 7th of November on the topic of ‘Breaking the cycle of Intergenerational Adversity: the role of public health’.
More details available here: https://www.cph.cam.ac.uk/events
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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Seminar Series Autumn/Winter 2023
30th October – 2023 Kendrew Lecture
Wolfgang Baumeister, Max Planck Institute
7th November - Jeff Kelly, The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology Faculty
All seminars take place on Mondays @ 11 am (unless indicated otherwise above), in the
Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 0QH and via Zoom.
Further details of all the talks can be found on our website. For further information, please email lecturet@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
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The Postdoc Academy
Various writing workshops, masterclasses and events throughout the year
Researcher development encompasses all the learning and development that you experience during your time in Cambridge.It provides you with the skills you need right now for your current work, as well as for your future, whatever that might look like. You can find upcoming training, events, resources for researchers from a range of providers across the University on our Postdoc Calendar
Learn more >>
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Public Engagement Training 'Engaged Researcher' - Now offering Online and In-Person Sessions!
The ‘Engaged Researcher’ training covers all areas of public engagement with research by combining expert led practical workshops and taught sessions. No Public Engagement story is the same and this is reflected in the diversity of the training programme offered. To register and to see full list of trainings please go to UTBS
Learn more >>
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AESIS Societal Impact Webinar Series
September
The Network for Advancing and Evaluating the Societal Impact of Science (AESIS Network) is an international, open community for various types of professionals working on stimulating and demonstrating the impact of science on economy, culture and well-being. The network consists of individual and institutional members, and thus connects different stakeholders. The members all work in a variety of organisations from all over the world, where they are involved in the evaluation of impact, research strategy and policy making, funding and other impact support.
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Other events please see our website page 'Events'
Highlights include:
Commercialisation of AI for University Researchers' - 19 Oct
Neuroimmunology Meeting - 20 October
Immune Prevention of Cancer Metastasis - 1 November
Cambridge Public Health Showcase - 7 November 2023.
Postdoc Research Showcase - 1 November
Researcher Training from Sense about Science - Quality and Peer Review - 3 November
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Jobs, Funding & Opportunities
We highlight important funds and prizes here in the newsletter below, but please do check the website funding page for regular updates.
Funding & Opportunities
Restricted call: Innovate UK Medicines Manufacturing Skills: Centre of Excellence (internal deadline: 18th October, 2023)
Restricted call: NERC Strategic Capital Call 2023 (Internal deadline: 12 noon on 27 October 2023)
ESRC New Investigator Grants (internal selection deadline Midday Fri, 3 November 2023)
MRC Confidence in Concept call open – deadline 29th November 2023
MRC Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) Round 2 funding opportunity - internal deadline: 09 November 2023
AHRC Centre for Law and Social Justice (internal deadline: 23rd October, 2023)
Royal Society Career Development Fellowships - funding opportunity for STEM researchers from underrepresented backgrounds (close 24 January 2024)
Socio-Environmental Knowledge Commons (SEEKCommons) Fellowship cohort (close 15 October)
Restricted Call: Sir Jules Thorn Biomedical Award 2024 (internal deadline: 9th October, 2023)
Tsinghua - Cambridge Joint Research Initiative Fund Call for proposals 2023: Approaches to a Sustainable Future (close 20 October)
Pre-announcement – Restricted Call: UKRI Accelerating the Green Economy Centres (indicative internal deadline: beginning of October 2023)
CSAR PhD Students Awards For Applied Research (close 20 Jan 2024)
EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account: Early-stage Commercialisation Fund (Close 18 September)
EPSRC IAA Knowledge Mobilisation Fellowships Scheme (apply by 16 October)
University processes: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023-24 (deadline Oct 23)
Wellcome Access to Expertise Funding Call (no deadline)
Funding Opportunities from Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences
Short Term Fellows - CRI Université de Paris [apply throughout the year]
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Jobs and Courses - More jobs at https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
Research and Engagement Coordinator (Closing date: 29 October 2023)
Associate Professor in Synthetic Biology/Engineering Biology (close 15 September)
Scientist at Bit Bio
Senior Bioinformatician, Genomics - Biologics Engineering, Oncology R&D (US)
Postdoctoral Researcher - Biotechnology [deadeline unspecified]
Senior Scientist - Bioinformatics at Constructive Bio [deadline unspecified]
Associate scientist - Genome Engineering at Constructive Bio [deadline unspecified]
Consultant Biotechnologist, Applied Science [deadline unspecified]
Short Term Fellows - CRI Université de Paris [apply throughout the year]
EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowships in Synthetic Biology [apply throughout the year]
more >>
PhD Positions, Internships and Entrepreneurship
Bioinformatics and Digital Health Internship at Oxcitas [deadline unspecified]
SynBioApps SynBio Training Programme, Concordia University Canada [apply throughout the year]
more >>
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If you have an opportunity to advertise to the Cambridge EngBio community, please contact the IRC Coordinator at coordinator@engbio.cam.ac.uk.
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