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

Dr Kevin Pyke completed his PhD on leafless and semi-leafless peas, here at the John Innes Centre in the 1980s. We recently caught up with Kevin, to talk peas, PhDs, four-colour graphs and the John Innes Cricket team

Dr Guy Polturak is a postdoctoral scientist, spending his days hunting through gene clusters for the genes involved in specific biosynthetic pathways

After receiving an additional £96k for the Flexible Talent Mobility Account (FTMA) programme, we caught up with our first recipient, Dr Tash Bush, to find out how valuable the extension of the scheme has been for her

PhD student Kathy Stratton, works with Dr Susan Schlimpert on understanding Streptomyces venezualae and specifically how cell division in Streptomyces is controlled in response to DNA damage. We asked Kathy, what are microbes, why are they interesting and where do you find them?