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.

We have Liz Atchison, who worked as the Librarian, Curator and Archivist until her retirement in 1997, to thank for changing the dress code for women at the John Innes Centre.

In the summer of 2015 I went to Prince Edward Island, on the Eastern coastline of Canada for my PIPS* placement to research the growing craft brewing industry.

Meet Ruby O’Grady, the Communications Officer in the Communications and Engagement team.