b'MARCH 2022, BABY SKIN AND THE MICROBIOME WEBINAROur joint webinar with Cosmetics Cluster UK (CCUK) brought together academic and industry expertise to focus on personal care innovation in the area of infant and baby care with a focus on the skin microbiome. The webinar took a broader approach to encompass all possible R&D developments in gentle formulations and mildness testing, sustainable ingredient trends and baby skin-microbiome biology, and covered innovation, regulatory aspects, brand perspectives and consumer attitudes. APRIL 2022, BIOFILM REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS WORKSHOPThe Workshop on Biolm Regulations and Standardisation in the Medical Device and Pharma sectors was organised in collaboration with the USA Center for Biolm Engineering (CBE) and supported by a BBSRC Global Partnering Award. The meeting brought together over 40 representatives JUNE 2022, BIOFILMS AND BIOACTIVE FLUIDS WORKSHOP from industry, academia, metrology and standardisation and regulatory The Biolms and BioActive Fluids workshop in Liverpool was a jointbodies to map the current landscape, needs, trends and expectations in venture between the UK BioActive Fluids Network and NBIC. Thebiolm standardisation within the UK and to establish industry and workshop sought to foster interactions between industry and academicregulatory participation in a forward working group.researchers working on biolms and on biologically active uids. JUNE 2022, NBIC ANNUAL RESEARCH SUMMIT AND JUNE 2022, CELLCELL COMMUNICATION IN BACTERIA:INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD (ISAB) FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED ASPECTS ENDORSEMENTThe 2022 biennial bacterial CellCell Communication meeting organisedA two-day event bringing together researchers and operations sta by the Microbiology Society was held at Robinson College in Cambridge.from the four core NBIC research institutions, with our three Helen Blackwell from University of WisconsinMadison gave an NBICgovernance boards, for the purpose of discussing our progress, future sponsored lecture titled Chemical approaches to intercept quorumplans and the science being undertaken by those involved.sensing in bacteria and members of the team held a stand at the meeting to highlight NBIC research and activities.JULY 2022, NBIC COLLABORATIVE TRAINING PARTNERSHIP (CTP2) GRANTS AWARDEDJULY 2022, GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBON BIOFILMS FORNBIC awarded four studentships which started in October 2022.BIOMETHANATION FROM WASTEWATER WEBINAREBNet, in partnership with NBIC, hosted this webinar to support knowledge exchange amongst members, and provided the latest developments from top speakers at Craneld Water Science Institute and Imperial College London. AUGUST 2022, NBIC ATTENDED EUROBIOFIMS 22NBIC attended the Eurobiolms conference in Palma de Mallorca, providing sponsorship and contributing a number of scientic talks and poster presentations, which covered diverse elds concerned with biolms research. OCTOBER 2022, FIRST NBIC COLLABORATIVE TRAINING PROGRAMME NBIC welcomed the rst cohort of PhD students for the Collaborative Training Programme from across the country. CTP students are collaborating with industry on a variety of interdisciplinary biolm OCTOBER 2022, NBIC ATTENDED NEW SCIENTIST LIVEresearch projects. NBIC exhibited at New Scientist Live 2022, engaging with the thousands of festival attendees on how biolms are part of our everyday lives. Visitors used water guns and giant mouth models to explore how plaque (a biolm) makes it more dicult to clean your teeth, and there was also a water purifying activity to illustrate how biolms are essential to clean water in sewage treatment plants.OCTOBER 2022, NBIC IN PARLIAMENTNBICs CEO Jo Slater-Jeeries pitched to the (then)UK Commons Science and Technology Committee at the My Science Inquiry event on the importance of biolm standards and regulations.OCTOBER 2022, BIOFILMS IN AGRICULTURE PARTNERING WORKSHOP IN ARGENTINAThe Biolms in Agriculture workshop brought together researchers and industry representatives from NBIC and Argentina, to address knowledge OCTOBER 2022, LAUNCH OF NBIC ICURE PHASE 2 gaps and improve agricultural productivity in both countries by reducing the The second phase of NBICs ICURe programme was launched. Thisuse of chemical treatments and their environmental impact.programme delivered collaboration, licencing, and start-up training to 6 project teams.NOVEMBER 2022, WASTEWATER TREATMENT EVENTThis Edinburgh Complex Fluids Partnership (ECFP) event, run in NOVEMBER 2022, EDINBURGH BIOFILMS TOUR collaboration with NBIC, brought together industry practitioners, As part of #BiolmWeek 2022, researchers in the School of Physics &interdisciplinary academics and regulatory professionals to discuss Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh launched a Biolm Tour ofsectoral challenges and strategic objectives towards improving Edinburgh, exploring where biolms exist across some of the cityseciency, minimising environmental impacts, and enhancing famous sights. public perception. DECEMBER 2022, FIFTH ROUND OF FTMA FUNDING AWARDED DECEMBER 2022, NBIC PHASE 2NBIC awarded a fth round of funding from BBSRC to support our FlexibleAfter successful rst ve years of operation, NBIC was awarded further Talent Mobility Award (FTMA) Account. This funding supports secondmentsfunding from the BBSRC and Innovate UK for the next ve years. NBIC and other activities that contribute to the mobility and development ofentered its Phase 2 with redened operations, mission and strategy for researchers and technical sta in both academia and industry.future growth. 17'