Mendel and the culture of commemoration
Reflecting on the ‘culture of commemoration’- how history of science is re-told and why ‘discovery narratives’ of the kind that surround Mendel are promoted
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Press Release European science community urges rethink on gene editing
Scientists from the John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory today joined colleagues from across Europe in calling for an urgent rethink of EU legislation on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
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Blog A day in the life of our computing team
Behind every scientist, is a team of people working behind the scenes to help enable the research to continue. We sit down with Becky Owen from our computing team, to ask if turning it off and on again really does work?
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Blog Meet the Molecules; Fasamycin and Formicamycin
Detailed exploration of ant nests in the thorny acacia trees in Kenya have revealed a new species of bacteria called, Streptomyces formicae KY5
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Blog Introducing Crop Transformation’s Mark Smedley
We sat down with Crop Transformation's Mark Smedley to chat about his work on genetic crop transformation and Crispr/Cas genome editing, as well as training the next generation and how he became a scientist
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Blog Award-winning science and the skill of self-promotion
Professor Sarah O’Connor took great pleasure in personally penning the nomination letter that has led to her being awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry 2019 Perkin Prize for Organic Chemistry
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16 SepEvent Young Microbiologists Symposium 2019
The Young Microbiologists Symposium 2019 will feature state-of-the-art presentations in bacterial microbiology, to enhance our understanding of where exciting new developments in the field are heading and help shape our ideas about future research areas
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News Urgent need for a global surveillance system to detect and halt spread of emergent plant health threats
Scientists at the John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL), along with partners at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and elsewhere warn that we are not fully prepared to tackle the rise in new epidemics of plant diseases
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Blog The starch of something new; introducing Dr David Seung
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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