b"JUNE 2024, EDINBURGH INNOVATIONS HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES SHOWCASEThe NBIC Edinburgh Team exhibited at a Health Technologies Industry Showcase in Edinburgh, which was attended by almost 200 people from industry and academia.JUNE 2024, NBIC ATTENDED EUROBIOFILMS 2024NBIC attended the EuroBiolms conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, providing sponsorship and contributing scientic talks and poster presentations.JUNE 2024, NOTTINGHAM BIODISCOVERY INSTITUTE (BDI) 20TH ANNIVERSARY NBIC SHOWCASEBDI celebrated 20 years of scientic excellence and innovation. The event was attended by funders, industry, academic and policy makers amongst JUNE 2024, NBIC ANNUAL SUMMIT AND GOVERNANCE others. NBIC showcased the activities carried out at Nottingham among BOARDS REVIEW them being the development of antibiolm coatings which are now in A three-day event, held in Southampton, brought together NBICclinical use and the recent infection diagnostics spin out MiDx.researchers, governance board members and the operational management teams from our four core universities, to showcase our achievements, and review our progress and plans for the future.MAY 2024, INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOFILM SEMINAR WITH SARAH COULTHURSTInterdisciplinary Biolm Seminar with Sarah Coulthurst on competitive MAY 2024, RESEARCH IMPACT PRIZE - IMPACT ENABLER inter-microbial interactions mediated by a bacterial protein secretion Susanna Richmond, NBICs Impact Manager, won an Impact Enabler awardsystem. The format of this series is accessible for PhD students and is at the University of Edinburgh for her work for NBIC and the University.designed to stay broad enough that researchers from other disciplines interested in biolms will be able to contribute to the discussion. Past seminars are available to view online.APRIL 2024, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL AWARDED 125 MILLION TO SUPPORT ULTRAFAST ELECTRON MICROSCOPY MAY 2024, COST ACTION REGULATORYTOOLBOXThe University of Liverpool was awarded 125 million to support aCo-proposed by NBIC, the Action on Building Consensus on Biolm national research facility, known as RUEDI (Relativistic Ultrafast ElectronRegulatory Decision Making was funded by the European Cooperation Diraction and Imaging), which will be the worlds most powerfulin Science and Technology. This initiative will establish a European microscope for imaging dynamics and position the UK as a global leadernetwork aimed at bridging the gap between academic research and in ultrafast electron microscopy. NBICs Open Innovation Hub forregulatory sciences.Antimicrobial Surfaces (OPIHAS), which is led by Professor Rasmita Raval, will utilize the facility to study biolms at surfaces.APRIL 2024, BIOMEDICAL PHYSICS WORKSHOPNBIC Edinburgh Co-Director Prof Cait MacPhee spoke at a Biomedical APRIL 2024, INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOFILM SEMINAR Physics workshop in Edinburgh, which was co-hosted by the Higgs Interdisciplinary Biolm Seminar with Ross Fitzgerald on StaphylococcusCentre for Theoretical Physics and NBIC in a session titled Physics of aureus and its adaptation to the dairy niche including enhanced growthviruses and biolms. The aim of this workshop was to bring together and biolm formation in milk. The format of this series is accessible forresearchers doing interdisciplinary work between physics and medicine.PhD students and is designed to stay broad enough that researchers from other disciplines interested in biolms will be able to contribute to the discussion. Past seminars are available to view online.APRIL 2024, BIOFILMS ICURE ENGAGE PROGRAMME OPENED Biolms ICURe Engage is a four-week, part-time programme, funded by NBIC and delivered by the SETsquared Partnership, to help research APRIL 2024, NBIC PARTICIPATED AT THE EDINBURGH students and technicians identify potential beneciaries of research, SCIENCE FESTIVAL introduce participants to tools for commercialisation, and foster A team of NBIC sta, PhD and MSc students from across the UKconsideration of entrepreneurship as a pathway for achieving societal successfully engaged the public of the National Museum of Scotland,impact and a viable career choice.with their biolm research. Activities included the previously mentioned LEGO biolm activity, and visitors were given an exclusive opportunity to premiere the NBIC virtual reality experience, using state-of-the art Meta Quest 3 VR headset to build beautiful virtual biolms, inspired from our research, and using real research simulation software. APRIL 2024, NBIC PRESENTED AT THE MICROBIOLOGY SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCENBIC Nottingham Co-Director Miguel Cmara presented NBICs work on the interference of bacterial signalling processes in biolms as an adjuvant therapy in the treatment of biolm-mediated infections. MARCH 2024, FUNDING SECURED FOR A BIOFILM ALLIANCE NBIC Southampton Co-Director Jeremy Webb presented NBIC's work In partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University and Industrialon bacteriophage-biolm dynamics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Tom Microbiological Services Ltd, NBIC was awarded funding from Innovate UKCoenye, NBIC's International Scientic Advisory Board (ISAB) member,to establish the Biolm Alliance: A Network for Regulatory Sciences,presented his talk on new ways of looking at biolms and biolm-Academic Research, and Industry Collaboration. The team sought inputrelated infections.from the biolms community via a survey to shape the networks direction and feed into a proposal for the Implementation phase of the programme. MARCH 2024, NBIC PARTICIPATED AT SOUTHAMPTONS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FESTIVAL MARCH 2024, NBIC PARTICIPATED AT NOTTINGHAMS The event was attended by over 5000 people, all enjoying over 140SCIENCE IN THE PARKactivities across the University of Southamptons campuses. On the NBIC The activities included those used at the Nottingham Festival of Sciencestand participants built their own micro-organisms, which were stuck on and Curiosity in February 2024. 63 people engaged with the activities,a biolm wall, to help build a giant LEGO biolm made of many species and through the feedback received, they expressed that the activitiesof micro-organisms living together. The team also oered to cultivate increased their understanding about how germs are spread betweenpeoples own bacteria, by swabbing their hands onto an agar plate, which people via hands and surfaces. was incubated for a week just after the event.18"