Webinars

Engineering Biology in Farmed Animals — Webinar Series

The Engineering Biology in Farmed Animals webinar series will showcase emerging technologies, tools, resources and research supporting the application of engineering biology to challenges in farmed animal health, welfare and sustainable production. Webinars will feature presentations from researchers in academia and industry who are developing new capabilities, generating valuable data and resources, and applying engineering biology approaches across farmed species.

Webinar 2: Engineering biology in poultry - From Discovery to Application

Thursday 19 November 2026, 14:30–15:30 GMT+1

More details coming soon.

 

Webinar 1: Advancing Tools, Data and Discovery

Thursday 8 October 2026

The first webinar in the series explored how advances in tools, technologies and genomic data are supporting engineering biology research in farmed animals. Our speakers highlighted progress in understanding livestock genomes and introduced the research expertise and capabilities of the Roslin Engineering Biology Hub.


Speakers

Over a decade of FAANG data - demonstrating the value via community resources including Ensembl
Dr Emily Clark (EMBL-EBI)

  • A brief history of FAANG and the EuroFAANG projects.
  • The FAANG data portal and the value of highly curated metadata.
  • Regulatory annotations in Ensembl for farmed animals as an example of a community resource enabled by FAANG data.
  • The future, the new Ensembl platform, and what might be possible in the next decade with AI and other technologies.

The Roslin Engineering Biology Hub: Driving innovation in Agritech
Dr Finn Grey (The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh)

  • Introducing the Roslin Engineering Biology Hub and the engineering biology capabilities being developed to support advances in animal productivity, sustainability and food security.
  • Highlighting how the EB Hub is building a pipeline from fundamental discovery to practical application, from identifying causal genetic variants to rapidly integrating complex traits into farmed animals.
Rolsin EB hub webinar 1

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