Spinning straw into gold
The BSBEC Pipeline ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY
Fuel
Perennial bioenergy crops
Cell wall sugars
Cell wall lignin
Marine wood Lignocellulosic Second borer enzyme conversion generation discovery to bioethanol bacterial biofuels
BSBEC Outreach 3-2-1 Ignition, Nottingham City Centre The UK’s first pop-up Science Shop, Oct 2012
Cambridge Science Festival Public Dialogue events, London, 2013 (plus other YouTube films)
David Willetts MP visit to Dundee Sept 2011
BSBEC Stakeholder Engagement Cereals Dundee LACE in atPractice, CerealsSCRI, 2012
World conference of Science Journalists
Boothby Graffoe, Lincolnshire
Presentations to House Lords Select Committee e.g. “Climate Change”, “Waste and Bioeconomy”
Government workshops Contribution to Consultations Briefing Documents for Ministers and Chief Scientist
BSBEC Capacity Building • • • • •
47 PhD students 36 Postdoctoral Researchers + Interns + Overseas visiting researchers etc New sLola projects
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New projects with Vietnam, Brazil, India, USA Co-operations with Argentina, Australia
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BBSRC NIBBs
• 13 new cross-disciplinary research communities • Industry-academia networks will provide innovative research to benefit the UK economy • £45M Industrial Biotech Catalyst to follow in early 2014 to support projects from early stage through to near commercialisation
IB Catalyst (Early Stage Translation) Proposal to manipulate biomass composition for novel chemical products (input on ethical, legal and social dimensions/acceptability of engineering crops)