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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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** 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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Different types of barley recruit distinct communities of soil microbes to grow around their roots by releasing a custom mix of sugars and other compounds, research from the John Innes Centre finds
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Curiosity-driven research probing the mysteries of cell-to-cell communication has been awarded prestigious European Research Council (ERC) funding
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Dr Sam Mugford has received a prestigious award for his outstanding service in supporting the research of the John Innes Centre
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An outstanding early-career wheat researcher has received international recognition for her achievements
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