Excellence in plant and microbial science
Each year at the JIC/TSL Annual Science Meeting, our yearly conference event for all staff and students, awards are given to those who go above and beyond. Here we’re going to take a look back at last year’s outstanding award winners.
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Researchers from the John Innes Centre and Quadram Institute are launching one of the first human trials of gene edited food, to understand whether biofortifying tomatoes in this way leads to higher levels of vitamin D in the blood after people have eaten them
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Welcome to the 38th edition of the John Innes Centre Advances magazine
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John Innes Enterprises Ltd (JIE), the commercial arm of the John Innes Centre, and Traitomic A/S, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Carlsberg Breweries A/S, have announced a new collaboration to harness world-class plant science and advanced genetic screening technologies to improve key crops including oat, oilseed rape, pea, and fava bean
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The 2025 harvest at the John Innes Centre’s field trials and experimental farm was the earliest on recent record, befitting a pattern of extreme weather variation caused by climate change.
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Over the last 12 years, the John Innes Centre has welcomed 35 Year in Industry students into our laboratories. The programme provides a great opportunity for undergraduate students to gain practical scientific experience and to work in a research environment.
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The innovative research project of an early-career plant scientist at the John Innes Centre has attracted a prestigious funding award from a global health charity
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Epigenetic silencing governs key biological processes, from flowering time in plants to preventing uncontrolled cell growth that drives cancer in humans
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July 2025 saw the latest Women in Wheat event, where twenty-five early career women researchers attended a training event at the John Innes Centre, focused on addressing gender bias in the UK and internationally.
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