BBSRC announces new Council members
11/04/2012
Three new members have been appointed to the Council of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) by the Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts.
The new members are:
The appointments are with effect from 1 April 2012 and will run until 31 March 2016.
More here:
http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/people-skills-training/2012/120411-pr-bbsrc-new-council-members.aspx
Plant Collecting
30/03/2012
In this week's Science, the online Careers section, there is an article on Plant Collecting which includes John Wood and Robert Scotland. The piece is a result of Robert and John's with others recent paper on big hitting plant collectors.
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2012_03_30/caredit.a1200037
Plant Sciences Team Accepted for Biotechnology YES
28/03/2012
Congratulations go to DPhil Students Astrid Woollard, Vincenzo Crescente and Qi Qin, and post docs, Brendan O'Leary and Saher Mehdi who have been accepted forThe Biotechnology YES (Young Entrepreneurs Scheme). The team has been selected as participants in a workshop based at Syngenta as part of this competition.
The competition has been developed to raise awareness of the commercialisation of bioscience ideas among postgraduate students/postdoctoral scientists and is organised jointly by the University of Nottingham Institute for Enterprise and Innovation (UNIEI) and the Business and Innovation Unit at Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
More information can be found on the The Biotechnology YES website and on the BBSRC's website at http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/business/commercialisation/biotechnology-yes.aspx