A very warm welcome to the Newcastle-Liverpool-Durham Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership (NLD BBSRC DTP). The 2021 intake to the Partnership is the second cohort of DTP3, the third round of funding from BBSRC, and the tenth cohort overall of BBSRC DTP students. NLD DTP3 is led by University of Liverpool with Newcastle and Durham Universities as our partners. All students are invited to an induction event on Friday 15th October at the Liner Hotel, Liverpool, a chance to meet other students - including students starting in 2020 as well as in 2021. For all administrative enquiries, please contact the DTP manager Carolyn O’Leary at bbsrcdtp@liverpool.ac.uk or speak to local PGR teams at each institution.