Excellence in plant and microbial science
Scientists discover the genetics inside legumes that control the production of an oxygen-carrying molecule, crucial to the plant’s close relationships with nitrogen-fixing bacteria
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Professor Dale Sanders FRS has announced his intention to retire in March 2023, after more than a decade as Director of the John Innes Centre. This timing marks the end of the current UKRI-BBSRC strategic funding period and the beginning of the next. Professor Sanders is a leading authority on the mechanisms for the transport...
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Carrots, ants, snails, strawberries, mice, and major cereal crops are just a few of the many organisms that can be turned into zombies: kept alive on life support under the manipulating spell of parasites
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Professor Cathie Martin is to give two special lectures after being elected to be the Janaki Ammal Visiting Professor by the Indian Academy of Sciences for 2020, as an outstanding woman in science
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In partnership with the John Innes Foundation, we are taking part in Sense about Science’s ‘Evidence Week 2021’
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Researchers have shed light on a long-standing mystery concerning how fungal spores are released and dispersed
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Africa is incredibly rich in plant, animal, and human diversity and uncovering the genetic basis of this diversity could hold the key to improving the productivity of crops and livestock and enhancing human health
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Our next Friday Seminar speaker is Professor Yu Hao from the National University of Singapore
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Paul Kagame recently joined the Professor Cathie Martin Group as a Research Assistant, to work on the chemo-protective properties of certain Traditional Chinese and African medicinal plants
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