Excellence in plant and microbial science
The Innes Lecture 2022 will be given by Dr Joy Hawkins, on Thursday 15 September and will be held in person at the John Innes Conference Centre. Join us for tea and biscuits from 18.00. Lecture begins at 18.30
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Computational modelling has been used to create dual-action compounds with exciting potential as new antibiotics
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A project highlighting the importance of pollinators to plant growth has inspired a group of schoolchildren to early scientific endeavours
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Professor Paul Nicholson, whose research investigates some of the major diseases of food crops, has been honoured by a leading society in the field of plant pathology
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Professor Graham Moore, a world-leading wheat researcher, will become the Director of the John Innes Centre from September 2022.
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Face-to-face, hands-on science engagement has been difficult during pandemic-affected times. So it was with great enthusiasm that a scientific scrum of John Innes Centre researchers, staff and students headed to the Royal Norfolk Show
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I was pleased to be invited recently to sit on a panel at Parliamentary Links Day, a large annual event bringing together parliamentarians with researchers, where the key theme was international collaboration in science.
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Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk, was indeed “decades ahead of his time and truly deserves the title of ‘founder of genetics.’” This is the conclusion of a team of international scientists as the 200th Birthday of Mendel approaches on 20 July
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Professor Anne Osbourn (OBE, FRS, Foreign Member of the NAS) has been elected as a member of the prestigious European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
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