b'FEBRUARY 2022, UTILISING METAGENOMICS IN EARLY TO LATE-STAGE R&D WEBINARFEBRUARY 2022, UK-INDIA-SINGAPORE BIOFILM SERIES,Our webinar with Jennifer Mackay and Dana Walsh of CosmosID was BIOFILMS AND ENGINEERED SYSTEMS WEBINAR aimed primarily at PhD and postdoctoral researchers in our network and The second in our joint webinar series with the India Biolms Societyfor those interested in learning more about metagenomics workows, (IBS) and the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciencesthe challenges involved and the things that need to be controlled to Engineering (SCELSE), which aimed to foster interactions between biolmprovide a quality outcome.researchers in the UK, India, and Singapore. This webinar focused on the theme, Biolms and Engineered Systems.FEBRUARY 2022, ARGENTINA PARTNERING GRANT AWARDED This BBSRC grant supports a workshop titled Biolms in Agriculture FEBRUARY 2022, GHANA PARTNERING GRANT AWARDED which will take place in October 2022. Co-organised by NBIC and the NBIC was awarded BBSRC funding to run a workshop aimed atArgentinean Society for General Microbiology (SAMIGE), the aim is to establishing a new partnership between NBIC and the West Africanbring together key researchers and industry representatives from both Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) in Ghana tocountries to catalyse collaborations in the area of plant-microbial address biolm-related challenges.interactions and sustainable crop production.JANUARY 2022, NBIC COLLABORATIVE TRAINING PARTNERSHIPJANUARY 2022, NBIC BIOFILM STANDARDS AND REGULATORY (CTP2) CALL LAUNCHED NEEDS: INDUSTRY FEEDBACK SESSIONThe call was open to projects from any research organisation which hadNBIC held a consultation session with a group of representatives from acceded to NBIC, in partnership with any UK company interested inindustry, focused on the medical device and pharma sectors, to engaging with NBIC (and its academic partners) in the control orunderstand their most pressing needs in terms of biolms exploitation of biolms. standardisation. The discussion helped to dene the subsequent, full day 2022 workshop in April 2022.NOVEMBER 2021, NBIC BIOFILM PREVENTION WORKSHOPThis workshop provided a unique forum for acceleratingDECEMBER 2021, MICROBIAL IMPACTS CONFERENCEacademic-industry partnerships to allow prevention-based researchThe 2021 Microbial Impacts Regional Networking Meeting in approaches to be translated into innovation across multiple sectors. AnSouthampton aimed to connect and accelerate new collaborations, initial plenary session was led by NBIC to summarise and discuss ancatalyse exchange of ideas, and new collaborations addressing global outline scope of the needs, followed by cross industry-academic groupchallenges relevant to the eld, and to build on research and innovation sessions, and an opportunity for short pitches of ideas or problems. strengths in the Wessex and South Coast region.NOVEMBER 2021, NBIC OPEN INNOVATION WEBINAR NOVEMBER 2021, NBIC ALL PARTNER MEETINGConnecting academic and industry partners to pair problem withThis was an opportunity for the NBIC community to review progress, solution and opportunity with need, has been one of the most valuedsuccesses, and challenges since our formation in December 2017, and to oerings to our members. The NBIC Marketplace Portal is ourdiscuss how the UK biolm community can continue to leverage its collaborative online portal for sharing research, funding, and innovationstrength. The NBIC community reviewed progress against the original opportunities between NBICs industry and research partners. OurNBIC goals and provided input to guide NBICs future direction and how webinar with Innoget, focused on the benets of Open Innovation, whilstwe can best help grow further biolm research, translation and highlighting the portals key features. education in the UK.OCTOBER 2021, WOMENS HEALTH AND FEMININE CARE WEBINAR OCTOBER 2021, THE WATER CYCLE, RESERVOIR AND The joint Womens Health and Feminine Care webinar from NBIC andSTORMWATER MANAGEMENT WEBINARCosmetics Cluster UK (CCUK) brought together both academic andOur joint webinar with Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences industry expertise and took a broad approach to research andEngineering (SCELSE), Singapore Membrane Consortium (SGMEM) and development in skin and vaginal health and through life stages with aSingapore National Biolm Consortium (SNBC), focused on managing particular focus on non-invasive sampling methods and pre-clinicalemerging pollutants, and other innovations in reservoir and stormwater models. This webinar looked at the latest research and innovation asmanagement.well as market trends, consumer needs and new technology solutions in the popular subject of womens health. OCTOBER 2021, INNOVATION IN WASTEWATER TREATMENT WEBINAROCTOBER 2021, NBIC COLLABORATIVE TRAINING PARTNERSHIPOur joint webinar with Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences (CTP2) AWARDED Engineering (SCELSE), Singapore Membrane Consortium (SGMEM) and The BBSRC awarded NBICs Industrial Advisory Board an annualSingapore National Biolm Consortium (SNBC), focused on tackling allocation of funds from their Collaborative Training Partnerships (CTP)industrial and greasy wastewater and using ecological theory to evaluate scheme to support interdisciplinary PhD studentships. The CTP schememicrobial process performance. Additionally, we considered innovations is a doctoral training programme directed at industrial researchin wastewater treatment.challenges and delivered by consortia led by businesses in collaboration with research organisations. SEPTEMBER 2021, UK-INDIA-SINGAPORE BIOFILM SERIES, HEALTH/CLINICAL WEBINARSEPTEMBER 2021, DRINKING WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMSThe rst in our joint webinar series with the India Biolms Society (IBS) AND ALTERNATIVE WATER RESOURCES WEBINAR and the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering Our joint webinar with Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences(SCELSE), aimed to foster interactions between biolm researchers in the Engineering (SCELSE), Singapore Membrane Consortium (SGMEM) andUK, India, and Singapore. The rst webinar focused on the theme, Singapore National Biolm Consortium (SNBC), focused on biolms inHealth/Clinical.water distribution systems and membrane development for reverse osmosis (RO).13'