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Publication: Professor Douglas Kell's blog

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Biotechnology, biologicals and banking

Last week, we completed our mission on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy to Korea with visits to Prof Hiroaki Kitano and colleagues at The Systems Biology Institute , to the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science , and to Kyowa Hakko Kirin ... [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - May 20 2013]

Entities: Biotechnology, Biology, Industrial Biotechnology Corporation, Systems Biology

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Biotechnology in Korea and Japan

To ensure that BBSRC Science remains at the frontier of international competitiveness, I arrange occasional visits abroad, approximately annually, to check this out on the ground (one such was the Big Data mission to the USA ). Given the strategic ... [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - May 13 2013]

Entities: Industrial Biotechnology Corporation, Biotechnology, Japan

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Evaluations, Gatsby and partnerships

As previously , this is the season of internal evaluations of the activities and achievements of Swindon Office Directors during the last year (though since the governance changes I provide only advisory comments on Directors of our Institutes enjoying ... [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - May 07 2013]

Entities: J Sharp, Industrial Biotechnology Corporation, Metabolomics, David Willetts

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

MRC, e-science, ABPI and partnerships

The first external meeting of the week was to fulfil, with Director of Science Prof Melanie Welham, an invitation to discuss areas of mutual scientific interest with the Strategy Board of the Medical Research Council . These included bioinformatics ... [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: John O Reilly, Mark Walport, Brian Cox, Porosity, Medical Research Council

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

Infrastructures, open access and CSaP

The week started with the latest meeting of the e-infrastructure leadership Council , co-chaired by Minister of Universities and Science David Willetts , where the main items centred around developing the details of our strategies for e-science . ... [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Metabolomics, Infrastructure, Mark Walport, Genome, Coelacanth

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

David Willetts

Bioenergy, Open access, drug discovery and e-science

My initial meeting last week was a very pleasant trip to listen to part of the annual symposium of the BSBEC consortium . I am not going to pick out any specific talks or posters (for which I presented the prizes), as that would be egregious, but I ... [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Metabolism, Mark Walport, David Willetts

First reported Mar 25 2013 - Updated Mar 25 2013 - 1 reports

Open data, fostering innovation, UK-CDS, industrial biotechnology and beautiful science

One of last week’s major meetings was one of our periodic gatherings of the UK Collaborative on Development Sciences , where among other aspects I rehearsed the benefits of Open Access (mentioned last week) for Lower Income Countries. I enjoyed a ... [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Mar 25 2013]

Entities: Industrial Biotechnology Corporation, Invention, Athene Donald, Nigel Shadbolt

First reported Mar 18 2013 - Updated Mar 18 2013 - 1 reports

Inflammation, Council, Sir Mark Walport and TSB

The week started by attending a symposium to mark the opening of the Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research , a research centre co-funded (to the tune of £5M each) by Astrazeneca and GSK – implying the highly pre-competitive nature ... [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Mar 18 2013]

Entities: Mark Walport, Inflammation, Industrial Biotechnology Corporation, Wellcome Trust

First reported Mar 11 2013 - Updated Mar 11 2013 - 1 reports

Agriculture, leavings and open access

The week started with a joint Manchester-Brazil meeting on bioenergy and industrial biotechnology , where I learnt in particular about an enormous metagenomics programme at the Brazilian Centre for Bioethanol Science and Technology . Other Agriculture-related ... [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Mar 11 2013]

Entities: Agriculture, Janet Finch, Iron, Biotechnology, BioMed Central

First reported Mar 04 2013 - Updated Mar 04 2013 - 1 reports

Babraham, science-art and open access

Last week saw a number of meetings connected with the Babraham Institute. In the first I performed the official opening of the new ‘Building 570’ that brings together a majority of Babraham scientists, including both experimentalists and those involved ... [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Mar 04 2013]

Entities: Yeast, Metabolism, Mark Walport

First reported Feb 25 2013 - Updated Feb 25 2013 - 1 reports

Institutes, agri-tech and tuberculosis

After returning from the AAAS meeting that I described last week , we had one of our periodic meetings with the Directors and Deputy Directors of the Institutes that we fund strategically. This one was held at the Babraham Institute , where as ... [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Feb 25 2013]

Entities: Tuberculosis, Yeast, Agriculture

First reported Feb 18 2013 - Updated Feb 18 2013 - 1 reports

Open access, agri-tech, triennials and the AAAS

Last week involved a busy day at BIS presenting, with our Chair Professor Sir Tom Blundell , to the Triennial Review team, followed by two meetings chaired by David Willetts on Open Access (where there are some interesting developments ... [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Feb 18 2013]

Entities: William Press, Kwashiorkor, Nancy Xu, Robert-Jan Smits, Erik Olsen

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Biotechnology, biologicals and banking [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - May 20 2013]
Biotechnology in Korea and Japan [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - May 13 2013]
Evaluations, Gatsby and partnerships [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - May 07 2013]
MRC, e-science, ABPI and partnerships [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Apr 29 2013]
Infrastructures, open access and CSaP [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Apr 22 2013]
Bioenergy, Open access, drug discovery and e-sc... [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Apr 15 2013]
Open data, fostering innovation, UK-CDS, indust... [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Mar 25 2013]
Inflammation, Council, Sir Mark Walport and TSB [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Mar 18 2013]
Agriculture, leavings and open access [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Mar 11 2013]
Babraham, science-art and open access [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Mar 04 2013]
Institutes, agri-tech and tuberculosis [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Feb 25 2013]
Open access, agri-tech, triennials and the AAAS [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Feb 18 2013]
Research showcase, environmental monitoring and... [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Feb 11 2013]
Audit Board, Lords Open Access, Council and Bio... [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Feb 04 2013]
Industrial Biotechnology, Research Advisory Pan... [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Jan 28 2013]
Lithuania, e-science and RCUK [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Jan 21 2013]
Defra, open access and planning [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Jan 14 2013]
Oxford farming, open access and Honours [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Jan 07 2013]
Council, Rothamsted, GSK and climate change [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Dec 17 2012]
Nitrogen, the autumn statement, executive meeti... [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Dec 10 2012]
Audit Board, CaSE, AAAS, roadshows and strategy [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Dec 03 2012]
Glasgow, model organisms, manufacturing and the... [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Nov 26 2012]

Blogs

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Biotechnology, biologicals and banking [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - May 20 2013] Last week, we completed our mission on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy to Korea with visits to Prof Hiroaki Kitano and colleagues at The Systems Biology Institute , to the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science , and to Kyowa Hakko Kirin ...
Biotechnology in Korea and Japan [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - May 13 2013] To ensure that BBSRC Science remains at the frontier of international competitiveness, I arrange occasional visits abroad, approximately annually, to check this out on the ground (one such was the Big Data mission to the USA ). Given the strategic ...
Evaluations, Gatsby and partnerships [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - May 07 2013] As previously , this is the season of internal evaluations of the activities and achievements of Swindon Office Directors during the last year (though since the governance changes I provide only advisory comments on Directors of our Institutes enjoying ...
MRC, e-science, ABPI and partnerships [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Apr 29 2013] The first external meeting of the week was to fulfil, with Director of Science Prof Melanie Welham, an invitation to discuss areas of mutual scientific interest with the Strategy Board of the Medical Research Council . These included bioinformatics ...
Infrastructures, open access and CSaP [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Apr 22 2013] The week started with the latest meeting of the e-infrastructure leadership Council , co-chaired by Minister of Universities and Science David Willetts , where the main items centred around developing the details of our strategies for e-science . ...