b"SEPTEMBER 2023, NBIC SUMMIT AND SHOWCASEIN NOTTINGHAMNBICs rst showcase event was a celebration which looked back at key achievements from Phase 1, whilst looking forward to exciting plans for Phase 2. The event featured presentations and posters from the NBIC SEPTEMBER 2023, EDINBURGH DOORS OPEN DAYScommunity. Attendees included representatives from our partner NBIC engaged the public at the Edinburgh Doors Open Days with its newresearch institutions, industry/end-user partners that have contributed giant Lego Biolm Wall activity. to NBIC projects, members of our advisory boards, our Directors, our Operational Team and researchers. It also included training for students onpublic engagement.SEPTEMBER 2023, BITE-CTP TRAINING: OMICS TECHNOLOGIES FOR BIOFILM RESEARCH The NBIC team at the University of Southampton hosted NBIC studentsSEPTEMBER 2023, NBIC DELIVERS GIANT LEGO BIOFILM WALLfrom BITE and CTP programmes for a week-long technical module, which& VR EXPERIENCE provided students with an introduction to a variety of omics techniquesNBIC commissioned and delivered two new public engagement used in biolms research. resources - a giant LEGO biolm wall and a novel with a Meta Quest 3 VR headset, both created to transform and update NBICspublic engagement activities. Both of these exciting activities can be lent to NBIC members.JULY 2023, NBIC INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT TRAININGNBIC designed and delivered an industry engagement training event to East Midlands academics interested in engaging with NBIC or the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences doctoral training programme.JULY 2023, BIOFILMS ART & PHYSICS EXHIBITION VISITED BY HRH This event was delivered by NBIC Innovation and Partnership ManagerTHE PRINCESS ROYALWilliam Green, and targeted early career researchers and providedHRH The Princess Royal opened a new building, the Nucleus, at the training and advice on areas of industrial unmet need, how toUniversity of Edinburgh. An art and physics exhibition showcasing artists' eectively engage with industry and how to design a successfulinterpretations of biolms was displayed for the grand opening.collaborative project. JULY 2023, NBIC CEO KEYNOTE AT ONE HEALTH CONFERENCE JULY 2023, NBIC SOFTWARE AND COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCHThe One Health 2023 conference, hosted by the Dorset Local Enterprise SKILLS TRAINING Partnership (LEP), brought around 100 experts and senior decision NBIC hosted a free Software and Computational Research Skills onlinemakers to Kingston Maurward College near Dorchester to share advice training workshop with the Southampton Research Software Group,and insight on sustainability and our shared environment. NBIC CEO Jo designed to help researchers gain the skills needed to increase theSlater-Jeeries gave a keynote address titled, Industry, partnership and eciency and ecacy of their computational skills. The training coveredinnovation. The talk highlighted the importance of strategic partnerships an introduction in how to use Bash, Git, Python and R. across academia and industries and showcased One Health focused projects. MAY 2023, NBIC LIVERPOOL JOINS INNOVATE UK JUNE 2023, BANFF INNOVATION SUMMITMICROBIALS ACCELERATOR NBICs CEO Professor Jo Slater-Jeeries attended the 2023 Ban NBIC Liverpool is part of a consortium that launched the MicrobialsInnovation Summit in Canada, invited as part of a delegation of Accelerator, a programme aimed at supporting SMEs in scaling theirinternational leaders providing their commitment to accelerate investible businesses and securing funding for the commercialisation of innovativeprojects in better agricultural, food and health. Jo is championing the microbial technologies. The programme is funded by Innovate UK andproject, International Platforms for Bioresource Technologies.oers a unique package of business support and access to clinical, scientic, technical, and commercial advice at no cost to the company.MAY 2023, BIOFILM SEMINAR SERIESMAY 2023, NBIC SHOWCASE: SUPPORTING COLLABORATION FORA new biolm seminar series, focusing on the interdisciplinary science of IMPACT IN BIOFILM RESEARCH aggregated microbial communities and biolms, launched at the NBIC and Medilink Midlands organised a productive showcase toUniversity of Edinburgh. The format of this series is accessible for PhD support collaboration in the area of biolm research. During thisstudents and is designed to stay broad enough that researchers from stimulating and fast-paced morning, our attendees had the opportunityother disciplines interested in biolms will be able to contribute toto hear about successful collaborations between academia and industry the discussion. The seminar series is available online. in the area of biolm research and innovations. APRIL 2023, NBIC ARUP ENGAGEMENT EVENTMARCH 2023, MICROBIOME ONE-HEALTH CONFERENCENBIC's Executive Management Team met with several directors and The Microbiome One-Health conference from Innovate UK KTN exploredteam leaders in ARUP's Water, Digital and materials teams at ARUP all things microbiome across the One Health Microbiome spectrumheadquarters in london to discuss potential areas of collaboration and including human, animal, plant, and environment. NBIC CEO, Professorbegan developing several collaborative projects.Jo Slater-Jeeries spoke on day 2 of the conference.MARCH 2023, CHANGE MAKERS LIVE 2023FEBRUARY 2023, NBIC ATTENDS PATHWAYS TO PRODUCTNBIC Liverpool Director Professor Rasmita Raval attended the business DEVELOPMENT MEETING and innovation conference, Change Makers Live 2023, where she Numerous representations from NBIC took part in the CBEs Pathways todelivered a talk on the importance of biolms. The presentation included Product Development meeting in Arlington, VA, USA, with Paulinaan educational piece on benecial and detrimental biolms, as well as Rakowska delivering an invited talk on the UKs standpoint on biolmhighlighting the multidisciplinary strength of the NBIC consortium across claims and methods in the medical devices sector. the UK, and leadership within the global scientic biolm community.202316"