We sat down with Genes in the Environment Programme Manager Dr Teresa Penfield to find out what they’re working on and how different plant organs such as leaves, flowers and fruit form their many and varying shapes
Continuing our science communication series with UEA students, we asked biomedicine undergraduate Carmen Barber why she chose biomedicine and what university life is like during a global pandemic?
How do we feed a growing population in a changing climate? One solution is to develop resilient crop varieties. But how can we achieve this increased resilience in crops? New John Innes Centre Group Leader Dr Sanu Arora is working on just that, so we asked her what her group will be doing?
Co-located with us on the Norwich Research Park is the University of East Anglia, so we sought out a new perspective for what attracts students to study science here in Norwich. This week we are joined by third-year integrated masters microbiology student Katie Sutton. We asked her “why microbiology?”, and what studying science at university is really like?
Dr Shannon McKie has recently completed her PhD studying how an ancient enzyme works. We sat down with Shannon, to find out why she chose her project, how she found studying abroad and what are future plans are after finishing her PhD
The 2020 Innes Lecture told the story of the Scopes Monkey Trial and highlighted the key themes in the public reactions. We asked Professor Joe Caine, why did so many people hate evolution and what can we learn from the trial today?