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On shaky ground
Joe Turner asks why, when soil is crucial to our food supply and an essential component of a healthy biosphere, we continue to ignore the skills required to study it The Biologist 62(2) p8 "A healthy life is not possible without healthy soils," said...
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Member Profiles
understand and respond to high-consequence livestock and zoonotic viral diseases. It helps protect our food and economic security and improve the health and wellbeing of animals and people. It is part of the UK Government’s Biotechnology and Biological...
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RSB launches new brand and strategy for 2025-2030
to make biology and its applications clear and relevant. As we continue to face the biggest challenges of today, from food security issues to the climate and nature crisis, the RSB is the anchor point uniting the biosciences and we look forward to the...
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RSB Fellows acknowledged in New Year Honours list 2025
efforts of a brilliant, multidisciplinary team dedicated to tackling some of the most complex challenges in defence and security. I am proud to contribute to innovations that strengthen the UK Armed Forces and national resilience.” Professor Dame Ijeoma...
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RSB Policy Internships
and environmental sciences, such as the use of genetic technologies, climate change and biodiversity loss, or biological security. Our policy work also has a focus on knowledge exchange and advice to support development of research culture, equality,...
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Atlas of a Threatened Planet: 150 Infographics to Help Anyone Save the World
to review, not because it isn’t a great resource, but because it covers such a vast canvas, from climate change to food security, through animals and hydrology. Fortunately, the book is broken down into atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and...
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Thames Valley
obtained a BSc at Brunel University in 1999 and a DPhil at Oxford University in 2004. She has worked at the UK Health Security Agency (formerly Public Health England) for over 18 years and during that time, Kerry has provided scientific secretariat to...
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Reports
increasing grain yield while decreasing water and nitrate demands. Thisproject has huge potential in enhancing food security in parts of the world reliant on rice as the staple crop. Johan Kudahl explained how modelling biological systems could help...
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Reports
society and environment. Speakers included: •Mark Fielder (KU) - zoonosis and climate change •Hilda Mulrooney (LMU) - food security •Simon Gould (KU) - antibiotics •Ahmed Elbediwy (KU) - cancer treatments •Sianne Schwikkard (KU) - natural products...
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Black History Month: Remembering Alan Powell Goffe
and began his career at the Central Public Health Laboratories in Colindale, in London, now the site of the UK Health Security Agency. He then gained a diploma in bacteriology in 1947 from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. During his...
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Travel Grants - Previous recipients
vaccinations, Tanzania Rhys Grinter - 39th Lorne conference on protein structure and function, Australia Suraj Rai - Food security, Nepal 2013 Early Career MSB recipients Carly Chadwick - International symposium on zoo animal welfare, USA Felicity Muth...
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Policy work
Knowledge exchange, information sharing and building trust in the biosciences • Ethical biological innovation • Biological security • Nature and climate • Research culture • Research landscape Read further detail about our work within each priority...
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Member Profiles
right by the beach. My work involves… Examining the toxicological effects of air pollutants on human lungs. My UK Health Security Agency-funded PhD project investigated the effects of particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide co-exposure, with particular...
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A manifesto for bioscience
R&D Prioritising investment in the UK’s research and development sector is key to sustainable economic growth and the security and wellbeing of our society. We continue to work with partner organisations to engage with Government on R&D budget...
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Election manifesto
growth. Biology also lies at the heart of solutions to existential threats to our planet and human health, from food insecurity to future pandemics. The biosciences can support a fairer and more prosperous society by targeting investment to harness...
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Reports
(senior territory manager at Bioventus), Jola Kopec (protein crystallographer at Evotec), Kerry Broom (from UK Health Security Agency), Rohit Bangay (MSc on insect interaction), Isobel Frey (field ecologist), Olive Tonkin (production management...
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Reports
them together tightly appears to be an effective method of ensuringefficient grazing together with a high degree of animal security (rather like the natural situation of bovines in a herd). Members learning about regenerative farming practices...
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RSB's response to the Spring Budget 2024
developing solutions to adapt to and mitigate climate change. However, such efforts should not be undermined by energy security policies that are likely to increase greenhouse gas emissions. Government must prioritiseaddressing the unfolding climate and...
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Current Activities
Development and regulation of gene drives in insect & mammals. Sustainable agriculture and the role of livestock in food security. Antibiotics anonymous – reducing antibiotics usage & examining selection and transmission of antimicrobial resistance in...
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RSB biosecurity concerns raised in House of Lords debate
The Society was pleased to hear its recommendations as part of its upcoming biosecurity campaign raised as part of a House of Lords debate on the 18th January, regarding infectious disease threats to UK biosecurity, including human, animal and plant...
