Excellence in plant and microbial science
Cells are the building blocks of life that grow and divide to create all living things, but how cell growth and division is integrated to form structures such as plant leaves has until now remained unknown
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Researchers have found an important class of sugars in algae, that could lead to a better understanding of algal blooms
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European plant and life sciences research centres and institutes endorse a position paper that calls upon European policy makers to safeguard gene-editing technologies.
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I joined the John Innes institute (as it was then) in 1987. It was much smaller than it is now; Colney Lane really was a lane, there was no hospital and buses only got as far as UEA.
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A major grant to fund curiosity-driven research into plant communication has been awarded to a John Innes Centre researcher and colleagues from two European institutes
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At the John Innes Centre, we currently have four Lab Managers, responsible for the major buildings which house laboratories on-site.
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The OpenMTA, a new legal tool to enable open exchange of biological materials launched.
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This year’s Heritage Open Day event for the John Innes Historical Collections was an opportunity to show off some of the entomological treasures in our Rare Books Library and the audience were treated to a talk by Dr Ian Bedford.
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If someone had asked me a few years ago if I would like to do a PhD, I would have said; “what on earth is it and what does it involve?”
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