For our final blog of 2019, we say goodbye to Stephan Johnson, who retired this month after a 40-year career here at the John Innes Centre

Natassja Bush is a Postdoctoral Scientist and a mother. We caught up with Natassja to find out how she was getting on, what she had learned and what she would say to anyone in science considering starting or extending their family.

At the John Innes Centre we have 70 Controlled Environment Rooms and glasshouses, where over 7,000 plants are grown each year, all planted and looked after by our Horticultural Services team

Towards the end of 2019, a group of our scientists headed off to Spain for the inaugural Early Career Researchers Conference, we asked two of them; Jo Hepworth and Millie Stanton, to tell us all about it

Genotyping is looking at specific, differences within a population of plants, and within specific areas of their genome, so that you can then use those selected areas of a plant’s genome in plant breeding

The story of the first Research Institute Technician Symposium, which took place at the Francis Crick Institute in London on Monday 18 November 2019

Clare Stevenson explains the increasing the use of Biophysical Analysis techniques and how we're making the science more accessible to a wider range of users

Recent work between plant pathologists at the John Innes Centre and plant breeding companies in the UK and Nepal are a great example of why sharing the knowledge we gain is an important part of being a scientist

After four years endeavour, Nicola Capstaff has just submitted her PhD thesis. Before she could relax and enjoy the moment, we asked her what she has done and what she wants to do next? Her answer was a move into scientific policy