This week, the Advancing Plant Health (APH) Institute Strategic Programme (ISP) hosted “A Celebration of Careers in Plant Health” event, showcasing a range of careers in academia, entrepreneurship, industry and policy.

Dr Pirita Paajanen, senior scientist, will soon be moving on from JIC to set up her own research group at the University of Helsinki. In this blog she reflects on the support she has received from the institute to help her get to the next step in her career, and the transformative impact that the Leaders Plus fellowship programme has had on her, both professionally and personally

Dr Eleri Tudor, Delivering Sustainable Wheat (DSW) Programme Manager, and her colleagues attended the DSW Institute Strategic Programme (ISP) annual meeting at Rothamsted Research earlier this year. She reflects on the value of collaboration in achieving strategic aims, and how this event is vital in bringing the wheat research community together. 

The past few months have been a truly memorable time in the life and career of Dr Miguel Montez. The John Innes Centre scientist achieved double success by having his research appear in two academic papers published within a few weeks of each other.

Ruth studied at the John Innes Centre from 2009 to 2013 after completing a Biology degree at the University of Manchester and working for the Food and Environment Research Agency. We spoke with Ruth about her love of plant pathology which has taken her career from Cereal Pathologist at RAGT to Disease Control Scientific Expert at Syngenta. 

DEWAS is one of the world’s largest crop pathogen surveillance and advisory systems, protecting wheat productivity in food vulnerable areas of East Africa and South Asia.

Each year at the JIC/TSL Annual Science Meeting, our yearly conference event for all staff and students, awards are given to those who go above and beyond. Here we’re going to take a look back at last year’s outstanding award winners.

The 2025 harvest at the John Innes Centre’s field trials and experimental farm was the earliest on recent record, befitting a pattern of extreme weather variation caused by climate change.

Over the last 12 years, the John Innes Centre has welcomed 35 Year in Industry students into our laboratories. The programme provides a great opportunity for undergraduate students to gain practical scientific experience and to work in a research environment.