Meet Dr Sancha Salgueiro, a member of the John Innes Centre’s Alumni Network. Sancha joined Roger Hull’s lab in the Virology department at the John Innes Centre in October 1988 as a visiting worker. She stayed in Roger’s lab to complete a PhD with the University of East Anglia between September 1989 to September 1992....

A collaborative team of innovative and creative researchers from the John Innes Centre and the Quadram Institute Bioscience took part in a competition to develop a commercial idea from novel research. The team, called “SUSU yoghurt”, were finalists in the YES22 Competition with their hypothetical B12 probiotic yoghurt product. Their idea, pitch and creative use...

Late last month, John Innes Centre researchers held the fourth Bioinformatics and Wheat Genomics workshop in Worcester, South Africa

This month saw the awards ceremony for the RITS (Research Institute Technicians’) Awards take place on 3rd March. The RITAs, organised by the Research Institute Technician Group (RITG) and sponsored by UKRI, aim to celebrate and recognise the valuable and considerable contribution of technicians and support staff to research institutes across the UK. This year...

On the 28th of January, Professor Cristobal Uauy, Dr Luzie Wingen and Anna Backhaus from the John Innes Centre (JIC) set out for Kazakhstan to deliver for a one-week workshop on wheat genetics and genomics

Dr Yiliang Ding and her group at the John Innes Centre have been awarded prestigious European funding to take forward pioneering research into RNA and its structure. In the second of this two blog series we find out more about this flexible molecule and its role in plant, animal and human health

Eleven early-career researchers from the John Innes Centre took part in a female leadership training course as part of our Rosalind Franklin Women in Wheat Champions programme

Dr Yiliang Ding and her group at the John Innes Centre have been awarded prestigious European funding to take forward pioneering research into RNA and its structure. Find out more about this flexible molecule and its role in plant animal and human health

It is predicted that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will be responsible for 10 million global deaths annually by 2050, more deaths than cancer, at a cost of $100 trillion to the world economy. The scale of the problem has led some to describe AMR as the “slow motion pandemic”, or framed as one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse