Explore is a series of webinars which has been created to provide a platform for organisations to hear from leading researchers at the University of Edinburgh. The series will see multi-disciplinary academics share their expertise, discuss the latest advances and present cutting-edge innovations relevant to your organisation.

Explore: Science for Sustainability 

Moving towards a more circular economy is believed to have the potential to deliver benefits such as reducing pressure on the environment, improving the security of the supply of raw materials, increasing competitiveness, stimulating innovation, boosting economic growth, and creating jobs. With the global population ever growing, so is our demand for natural resources and we are using more resources than the planet can provide. One resource that is unlimited is innovation – this is where the University of Edinburgh can support.

Explore: Science for Sustainability offers an opportunity for companies across multiple sectors – from technology to textiles; food and drink to finance; automotive to energy; the potential applications of circular economy research span across industries. This webinar series will highlight the research and applications of work in areas such as engineered, synthetic and systems biology; metal recovery, industrial scale-up, and waste management; as well as sustainable chemistry, plastics, and bioinformatics that is going on at the University of Edinburgh.

Sustainable Chemistry using Engineered Biology

Speakers: Dr Stephen Wallace with Dr Jude Huggan

Does your business need to develop more sustainable alternatives to using fossil fuels? Do you have ambitious net-zero targets?  

This webinar will inform how you can achieve the above by marrying modern synthetic biology and synthetic chemistry to enable the synthesis of your target chemicals from renewable feed stocks. Joined by Dr Jude Huggan from NCIMB, Dr Stephen Wallace will focus on how we can combine our in-house expertise in green chemistry, bio catalysis and pathway engineering with national culture collections and Scottish bio-foundries to discover new enzymes, build new pathways and fast-track these ambitions into new microbial bioprocesses with targeted industry relevance.  

The webinar will raise awareness of the use of microbial manufacturing processes to your industry. It aims to open up discussions around how modern synthetic biology and synthetic chemistry can be united to develop new bio-manufacturing processes that help meet your net-zero ambitions over the coming years.