Seminar Series
Starting in October 2025, the students of the EngBio CDT will be organising and hosting a seminar series. Below are details of upcoming seminars.
Seminars: Academic Year 2025 - 2026
Seminar Series: January 2026
January’s Seminar is being organised by Cohort 1 students James Bridson and Sam Kemery.
You can sign up for January’s seminar, taking place online, here: https://bit.ly/4590N9n
Seminar title: Plant Synthetic Biology
Speaker: Jennifer Brophy, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University
Time: 6pm (GMT)
Date: 22nd January 2026
Location: Online
Seminar Series: December 2025
December’s Seminar is being organsied by Cohort 1 student, Yige Chen.
Come along to the third EngBio CDT seminar with guest speakers Prof Jonathan Rossiter and Dr Lei Wu (University of Bristol).
Seminar title: Soft and Smart Materials for Biomedical Engineering and Robotic Applications
Speakers: Prof Jonathan Rossiter and Dr Lei Wu
Time: 2 pm
Date: 11th December 2025
Location: Online
Please sign up here or scan the QR code on the flyer so we have an idea of numbers, and feel free to forward onto anyone who may be interested in joining.
Seminar Series: November 2025
The second seminar this academic year will be hosted by Cecilia Gallego Rubio in Oxford.
Cecilia has invited Dr Jenny Molloy from the University of Cambridge. Jenny’s talk titled ‘DNA Parts to Partnerships: Open Source Tech to Accelerate
Synthetic Biology and Local Reagent Manufacturing’ will take place on at 3pm on Tuesday 25th November in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building.
Sign up to attend here:
DNA Parts to Partnerships: Open Source Tech to Accelerate
Synthetic Biology and Local Reagent Manufacturing
Seminar Series: October 2025
The EngBio CDT is excited to announce the launch of a new seminar series, which is hosted, organised, and run by the EngBio CDT students!
For our first session, Maria from Bristol and Natasha from Oxford are hosting speakers Karandeep Bhogal and Sami Walter from Oxford Science Enterprises. Taking place on Friday 17th October 2025 from 3pm to 5pm, the seminar will discuss how to prepare for investor meetings, network with fellow aspiring entrepreneurs, and will give feedback on attendees’ elevator pitches.
The seminar will take place at Old Road Campus. Sign up here:
EPSRC & BBSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Engineering Biology (EngBio CDT)
University of Bristol
School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology
Tankard’s Close
Bristol, BS8 1TW
University of Oxford
Department of Engineering Science, Botnar Research Centre, Old Road, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LD



