The John Innes Centre receives strategic funding from BBSRC
The John Innes Centre receives strategic funding from BBSRC
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Time lapse video of the refurbishment of the training suite by Andrew Davis
Peter Innes at the official opening
Students in the training laboratory
LinksNew Training Suite officially opened26th May 2011 The Chris Lamb Training Suite at the John Innes Centre was officially opened on 26th May 2011. As well as using cutting-edge science to understand how plants and microbes work, part of the JIC’s mission is to train new scientists to become the scientific leaders of the future. This new facility provides a resource for integrated training in multidisciplinary biology. As well as a training laboratory, there is a networked IT suite and lecture theatre as well as breakout areas for more informal discussion. The Training Suite can be used for shorter courses and longer workshops. For example in July the JIC is hosting an EMBO Practical Workshop on Multi-level Modelling of Morphogenesis and the suite will be used for the JIC/TSL Undergraduate Studentship Programme. The Training Suite is dedicated to the late Chris Lamb, JIC’s Director from 1999-2009, who placed a great emphasis on the role that JIC had in training the science leaders of the future and was instrumental in bringing the Training Suite to a reality. The training suite was opened by Peter Innes of the John Innes Foundation, as well as members of Chris Lamb’s family. Representatives from local government, Norwich Research Park partners as well as JIC staff were in attendance for the opening. They were given a tour of the facilities, which were being used to give a group of local schoolchildren an insight into genetic research. Local businesses and suppliers were contracted on the build, and the main construction contractor was Morgan Sindall, based in Norwich. A number of energy-saving measures were included in the construction of the building, which also houses TGAC’s Data Centre, a purpose-built facility that will handle the data created during genome sequencing and analysis.
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