The first ever Research Institute Technician Awards (RITAS) were handed out at the 2021 Research Institute Technician Symposium on 5 November

Antibiotic-producing bacteria can be found in lots of places, like deserts, oceans and even in association with some insects like leaf-cutter ants. We like to look in under-explored environments to find new strains of Streptomyces that make new antibiotics

We asked Olivier Hamant, Editor-in-chief of Quantitative Plant Biology to give us his thoughts on how the community can work together to face the climate crisis

Ricardo H. Ramirez-Gonzalez is a Postdoctoral Scientist, focused on wheat genomics. We spoke to Ricardo to find out more about his research and his role with our ‘Race and Ethnicity Equality and Diversity’ working group

Carrots, ants, snails, strawberries, mice, and major cereal crops are just a few of the many organisms that can be turned into zombies: kept alive on life support under the manipulating spell of parasites

Africa is incredibly rich in plant, animal, and human diversity and uncovering the genetic basis of this diversity could hold the key to improving the productivity of crops and livestock and enhancing human health

Paul Kagame recently joined the Professor Cathie Martin Group as a Research Assistant, to work on the chemo-protective properties of certain Traditional Chinese and African medicinal plants

This week we asked University of Birmingham PhD Student Joanna Chustecki to guest blog on her work using computational analysis to map the social networks of plant mitochondria

To safeguard the roll out of the MARPLE diagnostics method across Ethiopia, this summer Ethiopian researchers congregated in Addis Ababa for the project’s first virtual training workshop