Reminder: The deadline for this exciting Lecturer in Engineering Biology role at University of Bristol is this Sunday 26th April

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Marj said:
"It was great to get my first experience presenting at a proper conference, I was pleased with how able I was to answer everyone's questions, & I got a lot of positive reactions. It definitely helped build confidence in my existing & potential contributions to mathematical biology."

In March, student Marj Watts attended the British Applied Maths Colloquium (BAMC) at the University of East Anglia. Marj presented her masters dissertation via a poster. The poster was on modelling heterogeneous cell migration of chemotactic cells that generate the chemotactic gradient locally

very much the niche my research falls into.

A huge well done to Robin for making the most of such an inspiring opportunity and representing his research on an international stage!

or Synthetic and Systems Biology" track, along with other various talks from the "Data-driven and learning-based control" tracks. I made many new connections across the control field. It was particularly useful to network with the researchers from the control x synthetic biology track,as this is...

In December, Robin Henry attended the CDC conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A fantastic opportunity to engage with leading researchers and explore cutting-edge developments in control theory and its applications.

Robin said: I mostly attended talks from the "Control theory and Methods for...

The deadline for applications is: 23:59 UK time on Sunday 26th April.

For more information and details about the role: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

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The successful candidate will contribute to the continued development of EngBio within the School and play a key role in the EngBio CDT.

This role will suit an ambitious and collaborative academic who is passionate about advancing EngBio and training the next generation of researchers & innovators.

🚨 New opportunity! 🚨

We’re looking to recruit a Lecturer in Engineering Biology at the University of Bristol Faculty of Science and Engineering.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a vibrant, interdisciplinary research environment at a time of significant institutional investment and growth.

... potential competitors and industry trends.

Following the training, students visited the BioEscalator, Oxford's thriving incubator for fast-growing biomedical companies.

Thank you to Bryan S. from Innovex Management and the BioEscalator team for delivering insightful and engaging sessions!

The latest Innovation Training session for our Cohort 2 students focused on Market Research and how to build something people actually want.

On Monday, students explored different aspects such as research design and methodologies, and how to gather and analyse information on customer needs,...

The EngBio CDT is cross-training all students in biological and computational skills to ensure fluency across both areas, and works closely with industrial partners to understand and address skills gaps in the sector.

Last week, Kerstin participated in a panel discussion at the Advanced Therapies Congress, exploring what skills we need to efficiently deliver impactful therapeutics and diagnostics in the advanced therapy space.

A huge congratulations to both Alfie and Jakob Zeitler for such a successful workshop! 📈🧪

If you're curious about Scaling Up and want to know more about their conference in June, please check out their website here: bit.ly/4uuGWfE

"My interest is helping to realise biomanufacturing for sustainable chemicals and materials. I hope to do this by developing methods to improve efficiency of scaling up lab-scale proof-of-concepts. I will be keeping the things I've learnt in mind and could one day ask the people I met for advice."

In February, Alfie in Cohort 2 co-organised the Scale-Up Workshop! This was an interdisciplinary event, featuring a wide range of expert guest speakers, focused on challenges faced in process scale-up, which is a crucial step in bringing process innovations out of the lab. Alfie reflected;

demographics in our activities. By the end of the day, we had several different prototypes of our activities. We're looking forward to refining these prototypes and meeting everyone at the Festival of Nature in June!

Scrapstore and creating prototypes of the activities that we would like to exhibit. It is different way in thinking about our research. As the attendees of the Festival of Nature ranges from young children to teenagers to adults, we had to think about the different ways to engage the different...

day with several warm-up exercises to get our creative juices flowing, and then brainstormed many different ideas on the activities that we could create to engage the attendees of the festival in research in Engineering Biology. Then, we spent the rest of the afternoon acquiring materials from the..

Last Friday, our Cohort 2 students participated in a Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). Here's Belinda's reflections:

This Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) session was focused on prototyping several ideas for our exhibition in Bristol's Festival of Nature in June. We started the...

In the EngBio CDT, we’re very proud to be bucking the trend. 54% of our CDT students are female and they hail from a range of backgrounds - from mathematics to biochemistry, physics to computer science.

Find out more about our students: engbio-cdt.org

#IWD2026

Yesterday was International Women’s Day (8th March).

Women continue to be underrepresented in scientific research worldwide. In 2022, just 31.1% of researchers were women, highlighting persistent gender gaps in the field.

From agriculture and biomanufacturing to medicine and computational biology, it’s a great reminder of the power of interdisciplinary engineering 👩‍🔬

Current projects include:
• Applying machine learning to optimise biological processes
• Developing synthetic immune receptors and cancer immunotherapies
• Creating diagnostic platforms and biosensors using engineered biology

Yesterday was World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development 🌍

At the Engineering Biology CDT at Oxford, students explore a wide range of topics during their first year through short interdisciplinary research projects before developing one into their main PhD/DPhil.

In February, Bristol held their annual Light Festival which showcases the city’s vibrancy and creativity. Just another reason why we love being in Bristol! Our CDT manager, Joanna, took this photo when visiting the balloon installation last week. 🎈

Last Friday, students from all cohorts met in Oxford for training with Jean-Baptiste Lugagne on managing and documenting computational projects
This was followed by a session on seminars and the summer school, then a social! Some headed to Junkyard Golf and others to Thirsty Meeples (board games)

Tomorrow is International Mother Language Day (21st Feb)! 🗺️https://lnkd.in/fwpdtSE

Our staff and students speak so many different languages. Take a look at the video below of our students last year talking about their research ⬇️

For Max, the project has been a major learning curve, and an exciting one. Coming into the course with limited wet lab experience, he’s found it especially rewarding to work on a project that blends familiar engineering approaches with new biological methods
Well done Max! 🧪🚀

Happy Friday from the EngBio CDT! 👋
Cohort 2 students are in the midst of their 4-week group innovation projects. We caught up with Oxford student Max, to hear about his project, which revolves around the testing of collagen-based materials for wound healing.