We’re delighted to be welcoming back former PhD student and research fellow Dr Philippa Borrill as our newest Group Leader. We sat down with Philippa to find out what she would be working on and what she’s been up to since we saw her last

Early in 2021 the John Innes Centre was approached by local artist Jennie Pedley to develop a new science - art project exploring the production and sustainability of food crops

Cereal crops like wheat will have a particularly important role in future food security, yet their worldwide yields have plateaued. With agricultural land at a premium, one of the most urgent global challenges is to increase food production without expanding agricultural land area

Back in 2013, then Dr Matt Hutchings was working at the UEA, collaborating with Mervyn Bibb to manipulate the soil bacteria Actinomycetes in the hope of making new antibiotics. Eight years later, now Professor Matt Hutchings has joined us here at the John Innes Centre, we sat down with Matt for an update

In July, Dippy the Dinosaur arrived in Norwich, taking up residence in the Cathedral and this special Diplodocus has got everyone thinking and talking about evolution.  As a plant and microbial research institute we thought we’d take a look at plant evolution and what kind of plants might have been around when Dippy walked the Earth

Professor Ray Dixon recently talked to Alliance for Science Live about his research on nitrogen fixing bacteria and the future of engineering this process to benefit agriculture

An internationally acclaimed artist, Henry Driver, has created an interactive digital artwork ‘Secrets of Soil’ taking inspiration from microbial research here at the John Innes Centre

Researchers from the John Innes Centre and BecA-ILRI Hub have implemented a fast and easy-to-use genotyping technology, Kompetitive Allele Specific PCR (KASP), which has allowed African wheat researchers to drive their own research in Africa

Organised for students, by students, the ‘Norwich-Cambridge Student Symposium (NoCaSS)’ brings together plant and microbial students from the Norwich Research Park and Cambridge