Professor Mark Buttner, an Emeritus Fellow at the John Innes Centre, has received the Microbiology Society’s Marjory Stephenson Prize for 2026

The UK’s foremost research agencies and institutes have come together to launch the National Research Organisations (NRO) Group, a new alliance of 35 organisations (including the John Innes Centre) dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of people, communities, the economy and national priorities.

An investigation into cellular components in bacteria has unexpectedly uncovered a feature with relevance across many life forms, paving the way for diverse research, biotechnical and medical applications

The pioneering science of Professor Cathie Martin FRS and Professor Anne Osbourn FRS has been recognised in a publication listing the world’s most highly cited researchers

Dr Myriam Charpentier has received a prestigious international award from the Academia Europaea for her groundbreaking research into plant-microbe interactions

The Rotary Club of Norwich has donated 2,000 purple crocus corms to the John Innes Centre to mark World Polio Day (24 October)

Dr Philippa Borrill, a group leader at the John Innes Centre, visited Italy recently to accept the Carlotta Award at the International Conference From Seed to Pasta V

Plants are consummate chemists, using the sun’s energy and carbon dioxide from the air, to conjure a dazzling array of complex natural products in ways that cannot be replicated synthetically in the lab

Welcome to the 38th edition of the John Innes Centre Advances magazine