October 2018 saw the 3rd Norwich Science Festival and once again The John Innes Centre, and our colleagues on the Norwich Research Park attended in large numbers.

I joined the John Innes institute (as it was then) in 1987. It was much smaller than it is now; Colney Lane really was a lane, there was no hospital and buses only got as far as UEA.

At the John Innes Centre, we currently have four Lab Managers, responsible for the major buildings which house laboratories on-site.

This year’s Heritage Open Day event for the John Innes Historical Collections was an opportunity to show off some of the entomological treasures in our Rare Books Library and the audience were treated to a talk by Dr Ian Bedford.

If someone had asked me a few years ago if I would like to do a PhD, I would have said; “what on earth is it and what does it involve?”

Re-planting of Barberry bushes might be the last chance to save the endangered Barberry Carpet Moth (Pareulype berberata), but suggested conservation methods could come at the cost of a UK cereal crop epidemic

Grass pea, the crop with the curse, is set for a major change in reputation thousands of years after it was first cultivated.

Earlier this year a call went out for a new volunteer ResNet Rep from the John Innes Centre.

At the end of last week 15 undergraduates from all over the world gathered at the North Norfolk coast.