2025/26 Thematic Programme

Find out about thematic meetings in the 2025/26 academic year.

Themes

EastBio student projects are designed around three key themes:

  1. Healthy People, Animals and Plants
  2. Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems
  3. A Resilient Bioeconomy

Meetings

Meetings among the members of a thematic group are a mandatory element of the training programme, which primarily aims at cohort-building throughout the first year.

These meetings are student-led and should take place at different partner institutions 3 times over the course of the year, ideally in alternate months.

The final thematic meeting will take place during the EastBio symposium, to reduce travel for attendees. This may be a joint meeting across groups if there is shared interest in a topic such as industry-collaboration, science communication or big data in life sciences.

Second-year students are expected to attend at least one of these sessions, and can attend any meeting that is interesting and relevant to them.

 

Healthy People, Animals and Plants

SessionScheduleDateLocationContact
Session 1: Ethical and Sustainable Uses of Generative AI in Biosciences10am start9-Dec-25DundeeRegister here
Session 2    

Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems

SessionScheduleDateLocationContact
Session 1    
Session 2    

A Resilient Bioeconomy

SessionScheduleDateLocationContact
Session 1    
Session 2    

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