The PostDoc Voice and QIPS are the forums which represent Postdoctoral Scientists at the John Innes Centre and the Quadram Institute.

I work in the field experimentation team, which is responsible for looking after all the plants which are grown outside, i.e. not in the greenhouses or the controlled environment rooms, at the John Innes Centre.

I work, alongside the John Innes Centre, on the Norwich Research Park for a company called Anglia Capital Group for 4 days a week and for the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), 1 day a week.

I did a 3-month internship at The British Quinoa Company. This small, Shropshire-based company specialises in the production and retailing of British grown quinoa grain and products.

One of the reasons I love science is because it is so international and encourages you to move around, meet new people and grow as a person.

Researchers at the John Innes Centre recently announced a pioneering new technique which, if their hopes come to pass, will assist not only biologists but any scientist in the world looking to quantify shape.

30 scientists, farmers and related stakeholder groups, from the UK and USA, gathered at the John Innes Centre for an Organic Farming workshop, supported by a BBSRC US partnering award.

Catharanthus roseus, also known as Madagascar periwinkle, is a small perennial plant native to the island of Madagascar.

The ‘Biomaker Challenge’; a four-month programme, challenges teams of people from different disciplines to build low-cost sensors and instruments for biology.