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Comparative Cartilage & Bone Biology Conference supported by a Scientific Meeting Grant

5 September 2025

The Comparative Cartilage & Bone Biology (CCBB) conference took place at the Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, June 10-13, 2025. CCBB is a merging of two previous successful conferences: ‘Interdisciplinary Approaches in Fish Skeletal Biology’ (IAFSB: 6 editions since 2009) and ‘Comparative Cartilage Biology’ (CCB: 2019). CCBB united researchers from diverse fields of skeletal research, with particular focus on fundamental aspects of cartilage and bone biology, knowledge crucial for biomedicine, biomimetics or other applications.

How to make labs more sustainable: teaching

18 August 2025

by Jeroen Dobbelaere

One of the key missions of universities and research institutes is to educate the future generations of teachers and researchers. Therefore, it is key to integrate sustainability in the ongoing training. Currently, many science curricula lack sustainability. More universities now offer specific sustainability courses, but an integration in all courses has not happened. To integrate sustainability (including environmental, social and financial aspects), a general embedding will be needed.

Carbon footprint calculator for events – our latest sustainability resource

15 July 2025

We are excited to release our event carbon calculator for academic events.

We are keen to support biologists and organisers in the process of creating academic events and we encourage them to reflect on the CO2 emissions that these events will generate. We acknowledge the difficulty of developing a sustainable strategy with minimal guidance, so we created an event carbon calculator to help gain insight over the main drivers of the CO2 emissions generated by their event.

Hosting a webinar on The Pavilion for People from 2025 UN Ocean Conference

23 June 2025

The Company of Biologists works hard to support innovation that can accelerate sustainable development in the academic event industry. One of the latest projects we have supported through our Fund for Innovations in Sustainable Conferencing is The Pavilion for People, an exciting experiment that was part of the 2025 UN Ocean Conference. The Pavilion for People was an online space created by utilising already existing technology in a new creative way, allowing people from all around the world to interact, share their ideas and make commitments for protecting the oceans.

How to make labs more sustainable: materials and resources in labs

29 April 2025

by Jeroen Dobbelaere

Some contributors to the carbon footprint such as energy use, business travel and ventilation may be more obvious to researchers. What is often less understood in a lab is the direct and indirect impacts of the materials used to conduct research. Using high grade materials requires a lot of different resources.

From sea squirts to snack seekers: evolution of the vertebrate head

26 August 2025

By Ankita Thawani, Travelling Fellowship (Development) recipient

Ever wonder how you can follow the smell of fresh pastries to the break room, dodge a ball flying at your face or get a reflexive jump scare when your friend yells “Boo!”? The answer lies between your ears, literally!

Equity, diversity and inclusion at The Company of Biologists

13 August 2025

The Company of Biologists is committed to improving equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in all our activities. We believe that diversity – in areas including but not limited to geography, race, ethnicity, gender and career stage – is essential to our work as a not-for-profit publishing organisation dedicated to supporting and inspiring the biological community.

As an organisation that has adopted the C4DISC Joint Statement of Principles, and a founding signatory of the Joint commitment for action on inclusion and diversity in publishing, The Company of Biologists recognises the current threats to the pursuit of EDI, and their negative impacts on many of our authors, reviewers, readers, editors, grant awardees and meeting participants.

Twelve talks, one mission: insights and lessons for tackling antimicrobial resistance

26 June 2025

by Godwin Pius Ohemu

Godwin Pius Ohemu is an MSc graduate in epidemiology from the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Global Health Research from the University of Oxford, UK. As a member of The Global Health Network team, Godwin provides digital support for the AMR Knowledge Hub, a platform designed to advance antimicrobial resistance (AMR) research. Godwin attended the Biologists @ 100 conference; here he relays his experience at our DMM-hosted one-day programme on AMR. 

Godwin Pius Ohemu standing behind the 100 logo at the Biologists @ 100 conference.

100 years celebrated sustainably

12 May 2025

We were delighted to celebrate our 100-year anniversary with incredible biologists at our Biologists @ 100 conference in March 2025. We celebrated this unique moment with a careful approach to sustainability in every aspect of organising.

We kept sustainability at the forefront of our minds when planning the conference and  thank everyone involved in helping us make this vision real.  We summarise below the ways in which sustainability played a key role at Biologists @ 100.

A look back at the Biologists @ 100 conference

24 April 2025

The entrance of the Biologist @ 100 conference. It says Welcome to Biologists @ 100 wth out 100 logo. On either side , there are two banners.

It has been one month since we celebrated our 100-year anniversary alongside our biological community at the Biologists @ 100 conference, hosted in ACC Liverpool, UK, on 24-27 March 2025. We have many special things planned for this momentous year and this community conference was a major event in our 2025 plans. We are delighted that the conference was so well attended and we received excellent feedback, which we are proud to share. A huge thank you to everyone who was able to join us for our conference, who contributed in ways both large and small, to making this event a success.

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