Excellence in plant and microbial science
Dr David Seung's group are working to find out how plants make starch at the molecular level. We caught up with him to ask why he chose to work on starch and what it was like to meet the man his fellowship is named after
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Workshop in scientific communication for early career scientists from publishing to making the next career move
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Improvements to make crops more nutritious, disease resistant and climate smart are essential to feed a burgeoning world population. Speed breeding could be one answer
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Where does human intelligence come from and what advantage did it give to our ancestors? Professor Enrico Coen, provides a new theory
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Our Crop Transformation team are offering a training course on crop genome editing using CRISPR/Cas9 to UK researchers
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Professor Michael Bevan FRS is today honoured for his scientific contributions in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List
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A new rose hybrid has been named after former John Innes botanist Janaki Ammal
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A new tool has been created to explain how tissue growth leads to the range of plant and animal forms we see around us
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Nominative determinism is the hypothesis that people tend to move towards careers which reflect their names. We thought it would be fun to see how many of the staff at John Innes Centre had taken career paths that matched...
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