Vertical farming is a relatively recent development, which has the potential to allow us to grow crops in a controlled environment and providing an alternative approach to conventional farming

Ruth Franklin is in the middle of a year as a practicing student in the Professor Cathie Martin lab. We asked Ruth about her project and what it’s been like experiencing life in the lab

Franziska Hoerbst is a Computational System Biology PhD student in Richard Morris lab, focussing on the physicochemical properties of mRNAs and their influence on travelling. We asked her how and why mRNA travel?

Professor Anne Osbourn has always been passionate about popular science writing and the links between science, writing, poetry and art. To that end, alongside her work on plant natural product biosynthesis, Anne has recently had a book of poetry published

A collaboration between one of our PhD students and an illustration student from the Norwich University of Arts has led to an engaging children’s book highlighting the importance of plant health

Rotation PhD student Emma Raven joined our Rotation PhD programme. Emma co-chairs the JIC Student Voice with Josh Waites, and is currently working on plasmodesmata and plant communication. We asked Emma about her project, and the importance of communication in cells, and in the student community

Josh Waites in the new co-Chair of our PhD community; the PhD Voice. We asked Josh about his own PhD project and how a global pandemic has affected the PhD community more broadly

Earlier this month we launched the Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development, a cross-Norwich Research Park collaboration focusing on food security and sustainability. We sat down with Dr Peter Emmrich and Dr Natasha Grist to ask them about the new institute and how they got involved

Dr Carol Ibe is a Postdoctoral Scientist in Dr Diane Saunders lab, working on yellow rust in wheat. We asked Carol, what is yellow rust, why is it a problem and what can we do to save our daily bread?