Face-to-face, hands-on science engagement has been difficult during pandemic-affected times. So it was with great enthusiasm that a scientific scrum of John Innes Centre researchers, staff and students headed to the Royal Norfolk Show

Earlier this year we sat down with Dr Siobhán Dorai-Raj our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Advisor to find out more about her role, and her career so far. Over to Siobhán. “I moved from my hometown Galway, Ireland, to London with my husband and our toddler Isabella, when my husband began a postdoctoral position...

In May this year, scientists from the UK, Germany and Spain gathered in Norwich for the second CRAG-JIC-MPIPZ early career researcher (ECR) conference.

New molecules, bacteria, and other organisms are often named after their constituent parts or sometimes after the institute or people that discover them. But research scientist Dr Guy Polturak took a slightly different approach when he and colleagues discovered a previously unknown molecule in wheat. In a reworking of convention Dr Polturak has named the...

Set-up to provide information and support to all NBI staff who have parent and carer responsibilities, the NBI Parent and Carer Group (PACG) has been going from strength to strength since its formation in 2017. Siobhan Dorai-Raj tells us why she decided to form the support group five years ago. “I’m from Ireland and moved...

Cell division is a fundamental process in all domains of life, required for the regeneration of damaged tissue, organ growth and development.

If you want to know more about how plants are going to help humankind in the future, you can find out this weekend when Norwich Research Park holds its Plants of the Future open day. This Saturday (21 May) scientists, students and support staff from across the Norwich Research Park come together share their love...

We chat to Caroline Stone, a second year PhD student in Professor Mark Banfield’s research group, about her research project and career

On Norwich Research Park is a semi-wild bio-diverse space of wildflowers, birdsong, and home to at least one extremely rare species of moth.