RSB Biology Week celebrates biosciences

The Royal Society of Biology’s annual Biology Week will take place from 7-11 October, with events occurring in person in London and online, with organisations encouraged to host their own event.

The week is an opportunity to bring together people of all ages from across the biosciences sector – from researchers, teachers, students and children to people working in industry and anyone with an interest in biology. The theme of this year’s Biology Week is ‘Biology for a better tomorrow’.

Events will include:

• The RSB Annual Awards Ceremony and Biology Week reception in South Kensington
• A visit to the Royal Botanical gardens, Kew, featuring keynote talks, exclusive tours of the facilities, and networking opportunities with Biology professionals in the plant health sector
• A talk by television presenter George McGavin FRSB about his journey to discover the world of wildlife, for RSB members only
• An opportunity to create a biology-inspired 3D artwork from recycled, or other, materials to enter into the RSB BioCraft Competition
• The return of the RSB’s A-Z of the Biosciences – short films shining a spotlight on different bioscience careers – for a third series launching weekly videos starting in Biology Week
• A new online RSB Memory Game launches
• The nation-wide biology National Spelling Bee competition

The winners of the Society's Photographic competition will also be announced.

RSB Chief Executive, Dr Mark Downs CBiol CSci FRSB, said: “Biology Week is a chance for everyone with an interest in biology to come together, whether they are teachers, students, children, academics or industry specialists, to share knowledge and put the focus on the importance of biology to all. It is a pivotal time in the RSB’s calendar and I’m looking forward to this year’s fantastic line-up of events.”

Innovation in biology will help us to support all life on Earth – from biomedical science and mycology to ecology and anatomy – now and in the coming decades. Biology Week aims to celebrate and raise awareness of these achievements and the important work that bioscientists are doing through generating conversation around this and highlighting it to public audiences.

Biology Week is being spearheaded by the Royal Society of Biology, a single unified voice for biology comprising a diverse membership of individuals, learned societies, and other organisations.

This year’s events and activities are kindly supported by BBSRC.

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