We caught up with Dr Sam Fox, former Research Assistant and now Director of the Youth STEMM Award to hear the story of her career

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?  

What are ‘virus-like particles’ and could they help in the quest to end the SARS-CoV2 pandemic?

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?

To mark LGBTSTEMDAY we asked some of our staff and students to tell us about their experiences of life as an LGBTQ+ person on the Norwich Research Park

Since 2017, we have supported Professional Internships for PhD students (PIPS) in Kenya, focussed on communications, capacity building and building research networks

FTMA is a pioneering scheme that promotes the movement of early-career researchers either from or to the John Innes Centre. For a personal take on what the scheme can mean, we spoke to Dr Inmaculada Ferriol-Safont, a Postdoc who joined us from CRAG in Barcelona