Stories Archive - The Company of Biologists

We are saying goodbye to Dr O. Claire Moulton this week, who is retiring from her role as CEO of The Company of Biologists. We’d like to take this opportunity to look back at Claire’s career and her impact on our company. After a PhD and a postdoc in molecular biology, Claire started her career […] The post A big thank you to Claire Moulton appeared first on The Company of Biologists .

16 June 2026 What are SDGs? Adopted by the UN’s member states, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were created to offer a guide of all the actions that should be taken in redesigning the world in a sustainable manner that will allow the climate to not surpass the 1.5ºC threshold by 2030 according to […] The post Sustainable Development Goals applied in events organisation appeared first …

21 April 2026 by Jeroen Dobbelaere Research funders have started to request lab sustainability measurements. Are they joining the sustainable wave or will it have an impact? Research labs are the places where scientific questions are tested, ideas are born and discoveries are made. Although the current lab environment is very different from the romantic textbook […] The post How to make labs more…

8 September 2025 by Léa Manke My journey to the Biologists @ 100 conference began early on Saturday morning. Clutching my thermos filled with coffee, I made my way to the major train station in Paris, France, Gare du Nord. A light drizzle was falling on the city, turning Paris into a shiny mirror of […] The post My journey from Paris to Liverpool in four trains appeared first on The Company of Bi…

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 f…

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! We vertebrates have a complex […] The post From sea squirts to snack seekers: evolution of the verteb…

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 […] The p…

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 […] The post Twelve talks, one mission: insights and lessons for tackl…