Professional Internships for PhD students (PIPS) in Africa
Since 2017, we have supported Professional Internships for PhD students (PIPS) in Kenya, focussed on communications, capacity building and building research networks
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Blog What’s it like being a visiting scientist at the John Innes Centre?
FTMA is a pioneering scheme that promotes the movement of early-career researchers either from or to the John Innes Centre. For a personal take on what the scheme can mean, we spoke to Dr Inmaculada Ferriol-Safont, a Postdoc who joined us from CRAG in Barcelona
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16 DecEvent New Xylella Data for UK Risk Assessment and Policy
Xylella is not present in the UK, but should it arrive, then the eco-epidemiology needs to be understood. However, there is a great deal of uncertainty over the UK pathosystem compared to the known outbreak locations. This BRIGIT Consortium Meeting session will present the latest Xylella findings from the BRIGIT project, shedding light on some of the uncertainties in a UK context
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02 Dec
Event Development and implementation of diagnostic tools for Xylella
Development of Xylella diagnostics tools and how these tools are being made available to stakeholders is a half day virtual event hosted by the BRIGIT consortium
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News A molecular roadmap to the plant immune system
The latest advances in our understanding of the plant immune system are mapped out in a new review by John Innes Centre researchers
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News New collaboration working to develop crops with healthier, more resistant starch
Researchers working to develop crops with healthier, more resistant starch at the Quadram Institute and John Innes Centre are partnering with the John Innes Foundation, who will be funding a two year collaborative research programme
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Blog PhDs, peas and cricket teas; Dr Kevin Pyke’s alumni story
Dr Kevin Pyke completed his PhD on leafless and semi-leafless peas, here at the John Innes Centre in the 1980s. We recently caught up with Kevin, to talk peas, PhDs, four-colour graphs and the John Innes Cricket team
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Press Release Wrinkled ‘super pea’ could be added to foods to reduce diabetes risk
A type of wrinkled ‘super pea’ may help control blood sugar levels and could reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, as suggested by a new study
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News New research sheds light on complex genetic and metabolic traits in plants
Numerous examples of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) have been discovered in plant genomes, but little is known about the formation of these important examples of gene organisation
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