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A decade-long collaborative study has discovered huge genetic potential that is untapped in modern wheat varieties. The international study which appears in Nature reveals that at least 60% of the genetic diversity found in a historic collection of wheat is unused providing an unprecedented opportunity to improve modern wheat and sustainably feed a growing global...
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Professor Diane Saunders has been recognised for her outstanding scientific achievements and dedication to women in STEM with the honour of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the King’s Birthday Honours 2024. Professor Graham Moore FRS, Director of the John Innes Centre said, “This prestigious honour reflects Diane’s remarkable contributions to...
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Two new studies which appear in Molecular Cell reveal core principles of how chromatin and transcription interconnect to regulate gene expression. The work was focused on FLC, a gene that determines developmental timing in plants. But the principle that emerges, of the balance between transcription termination and anti-termination regulating gene expression, is relevant to gene...
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The John Innes Centre has joined more than 25 leading research organisations in signing an environmental sustainability concordat. The Concordat for the Environmental Sustainability of Research and Innovation Practice, hosted by Wellcome commits signatories and supporters to embedding environmental sustainability into all research and innovation practice. The aim of the concordat is to ensure research and...
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Earlier this year, in January 2024, three PhD students journeyed from Kenya to Nepal for their professional internship placements (PIPS) with MARPLE diagnostics, empowering scientists with essential molecular biology skills in a collaborative effort to strengthen local agricultural research centres. The John Innes Centre team of NRPDTP students, Cesaree Morier-Gxoyiya, Delfi Dorussen, and Tom Lock...
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In a modern world facing previously unseen global challenges, such as food security and the need to feed a rapidly growing population, the Plant Genetics and Crop Improvement MSc offers essential training to postgraduate students which allows them to help tackle these issues, either by pursuing a PhD in plant molecular genetics or entering the...
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Two leading John Innes Centre scientists have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society
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APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED – MONDAY 24TH JUNE The CCP4-BCA Protein Crystallography Summer School is intended to provide students and researchers with a comprehensive introduction to macromolecular X-ray crystallography and is a fully residential course. Dates 1st – 6th Sept 2024 inclusive Location John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK Overview The...
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** Applications are now closed ** The Department of Molecular Microbiology is organising a one and a half day Early Career Microbiologists Mini-Symposium. The symposium will be held from Monday 23 – Tuesday 24 September 2024. The aim of this event is for the John Innes Centre to hear about state-of-the-art science through presentations in bacterial microbiology,...
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