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?

We actively promote a family-friendly and inclusive workplace - recognising that excellence in research is intimately linked with equal opportunities. We asked four of our researchers to tell us about their experiences of balancing scientific research with their caring responsibilities

As a plant and microbial research institute, we have hundreds of biologists on-site and it struck us that while almost all of them had a biology career, none of those careers looked the same

Dr Andrew Lucy joined the John Innes as a technician in 1987, by the time he left he had earned a PhD, discovered science to be exhilarating, fun and populated by amazing people and become Dr Lucy. This is his incredible story