Long-term commitment to enrich bioinformatic expertise in South Africa
Late last month, John Innes Centre researchers held the fourth Bioinformatics and Wheat Genomics workshop in Worcester, South Africa
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Blog Introducing RITS nominee and Field Technician, Rebecca Lee
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...
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Press Release Professor Anne Osbourn – plant scientist and poet receives prestigious Novozymes Prize
Professor Anne Osbourn has been awarded the 2023 Novozymes Prize for her pioneering work in helping to produce important drugs in greater volumes and improving the natural defence systems of plants
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News The RITAs 2023: Celebrating Technical Excellence
Technical experts from the research community have been recognised for their excellence, across a range of categories
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Blog Wheat genetics and genomics workshop in Kazakhstan
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
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Blog G-quadruplex Atlas shapes the future for RNA researchers
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
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Press Release Can gene discovery methods halt the global march of wheat blast?
An international research collaboration led by the John Innes Centre has used innovative genomic discovery methods to show how we might halt the emerging and highly destructive disease, wheat blast
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Blog Training the next generation of female wheat research leaders
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
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News Plasmids – host manipulation discovery challenges biology textbooks
Bacteria can pass genetic information among themselves to gain an advantage over competitors in their environment
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