This month saw the awards ceremony for the RITS (Research Institute Technicians’) Awards take place on 3rd March. The RITAs, organised by the Research Institute Technician Group (RITG) and sponsored by UKRI, aim to celebrate and recognise the valuable and considerable contribution of technicians and support staff to research institutes across the UK. This year...

On the 28th of January, Professor Cristobal Uauy, Dr Luzie Wingen and Anna Backhaus from the John Innes Centre (JIC) set out for Kazakhstan to deliver for a one-week workshop on wheat genetics and genomics

Dr Yiliang Ding and her group at the John Innes Centre have been awarded prestigious European funding to take forward pioneering research into RNA and its structure. In the second of this two blog series we find out more about this flexible molecule and its role in plant, animal and human health

Eleven early-career researchers from the John Innes Centre took part in a female leadership training course as part of our Rosalind Franklin Women in Wheat Champions programme

Dr Yiliang Ding and her group at the John Innes Centre have been awarded prestigious European funding to take forward pioneering research into RNA and its structure. Find out more about this flexible molecule and its role in plant animal and human health

It is predicted that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will be responsible for 10 million global deaths annually by 2050, more deaths than cancer, at a cost of $100 trillion to the world economy. The scale of the problem has led some to describe AMR as the “slow motion pandemic”, or framed as one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse

In October 2022, the Rosalind Franklin Society Award in Science for the best paper in the CRISPR Journal 2021 was presented to Dr. Mikhaela Neequaye, research assistant in the Byers group. Mikhaela started her current role at the John Innes Centre in November 2020, having recently completed her PhD, co-supervised by Professor Richard Mithen (then...

New findings about the mechanisms of long-distance signalling in plants were published last month in Science Advances. The findings debunk longstanding theories of how plants rely on calcium waves to respond systemically to wounding and other stresses.   John Innes Centre researchers suggest that calcium waves transmitted through plants are not the primary response but are...

Dr Penny Hundleby is a Senior Scientist specialising in the development of genetic modification (GM) and gene editing (GE) technologies for UK crops, supporting UK and international researchers by providing transformed plants for their research