We caught up with former John Innes Centre PhD student and Postdoc Tom van den Boogaart to see where his career has taken him so far and find out what advice he would give to scientists considering the same

Back when she was at Primary School and long before thoughts of being a scientist had crossed her mind, Julia Mundy was one of the first students to experience a lesson delivered by the SAW Trust. We caught up with her to find out how that lesson inspired her and led to a career in science

In March of 2020 work began on the restoration of neglected and rather sad-looking ponds at our Dorothea de Winton Field Experimentation site. We spoke to Professor Allan Downie about what was being done and why

Dr Simon Aspland joined us in December 2019 as our new Head of Commercialisation. We sat down with him to find out how he intends to help progress innovations originating at the John Innes Centre into practical applications

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PhD student Joshua Joyce is investigating the way plants respond to attack from insect pests and how we could support plants to better defend themselves against this threat

Professor Dave Lawson manages our Protein X-Ray Crystallography technology platform. We sat down with him to ask what protein crystallography is, why it’s useful and how he got into this field of research?

Earlier this year, a newly discovered single-cell microbe that can survive in extreme environments was named after Dr Renu Swarup, current Secretary in the Indian government’s Department of Biotechnology and former John Innes Centre Postdoctoral Scientist

2020 is the International Year for Plant Health, so we caught up with the lead of our Plant Health research programme, Professor Mark Banfield