26 June 2025
by Godwin Pius Ohemu
Godwin Pius Ohemu is an MSc graduate in epidemiology from the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Global Health Research from the University of Oxford, UK. As a member of The Global Health Network team, Godwin provides digital support for the AMR Knowledge Hub, a platform designed to advance antimicrobial resistance (AMR) research. Godwin attended the Biologists @ 100 conference; here he relays his experience at our DMM-hosted one-day programme on AMR.
12 May 2025
We were delighted to celebrate our 100-year anniversary with incredible biologists at our Biologists @ 100 conference in March 2025. We celebrated this unique moment with a careful approach to sustainability in every aspect of organising.
We kept sustainability at the forefront of our minds when planning the conference and thank everyone involved in helping us make this vision real. We summarise below the ways in which sustainability played a key role at Biologists @ 100. …
24 April 2025
It has been one month since we celebrated our 100-year anniversary alongside our biological community at the Biologists @ 100 conference, hosted in ACC Liverpool, UK, on 24-27 March 2025. We have many special things planned for this momentous year and this community conference was a major event in our 2025 plans. We are delighted that the conference was so well attended and we received excellent feedback, which we are proud to share. A huge thank you to everyone who was able to join us for our conference, who contributed in ways both large and small, to making this event a success. …
26 February 2025
The consumable products in the lab, such as tubes, vials, enzymes and other reagents, are often the major contributor to the lab carbon footprint. For universities that calculate a complete carbon footprint for the entire institute (e.g., Copenhagen University and UCL), lab consumables stand out as one of the major contributing categories. Though an exact carbon footprint of a single product is often lacking (we often do not have enough data for a complete life cycle analysis), there are tools like spend-based methods which can help to get a good overview of the total impact of a single product. …
17 February 2025
As The Company of Biologists steps into its second century, it also announces a new senior management structure to take the Company forward. Dr Claire Moulton, previously the Company’s Publisher, has been appointed as its first ever Chief Executive Officer. She will be working closely with Katie Ward, who has been appointed as the Chief Financial Officer and Charity Director. We meet up with Claire to learn more about the recent changes and how they will strengthen the organisation as it moves forward.
23 June 2025
The Company of Biologists works hard to support innovation that can accelerate sustainable development in the academic event industry. One of the latest projects we have supported through our Fund for Innovations in Sustainable Conferencing is The Pavilion for People, an exciting experiment that was part of the 2025 UN Ocean Conference. The Pavilion for People was an online space created by utilising already existing technology in a new creative way, allowing people from all around the world to interact, share their ideas and make commitments for protecting the oceans. …
29 April 2025
Some contributors to the carbon footprint such as energy use, business travel and ventilation may be more obvious to researchers. What is often less understood in a lab is the direct and indirect impacts of the materials used to conduct research. Using high grade materials requires a lot of different resources. …
21 March 2025
In the light of climate change, biologists are working together to find a way of running scientific meetings in a more sustainable manner. We are putting a call out to everyone (biologists or not) to share with us their ideas to innovate event organisation to have a lower environmental impact.
Write an essay of maximum 1,000 words to detail how your idea will change scientific events organisation and will open the door to a new concept of organising events in the next 10 years.
The best ideas will be rewarded. The winning essays will be rewarded with £250 for first prize, £150 for second prize and £100 for third prize. The winning essays will be selected by our Sustainability Committee and will have the opportunity to feature on our website. …
25 February 2025
To commemorate the 100th birthday of Journal of Experimental Biology (JEB) in 2023, The Company of Biologists and JEB launched two new grants to champion the emerging talents in comparative physiology and biomechanics. One of our inaugural grant awardees is Erin Leonard from Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. …
3 February 2025
Doing experiments in a lab setting has many advantages. It allows you to focus on a single aspect without the interference of outside influences. Creating these artificial conditions relies on a range of equipment, from computers to incubators and cooling devices. In addition, biologists, chemists and physicists have learned to hijack biological processes such as DNA amplification (using PCR) and DNA modifications (changing the genetic code using CRISPR). These methods rely on sterile conditions, precise temperature control and pure reagents to work well. Thus, modern research allows for groundbreaking discoveries, but it also requires high-end energy intensive equipment. …
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