Excellence in plant and microbial science
Antibiotics, the wonder drugs discovered by accident that have saved 200 million lives and counting, have been voted Britain’s greatest invention
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John Innes Centre scientists are among an international team who have discovered a new class of compounds that target bacteria in a unique way
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The John Innes Centre has joined more than 35 universities and research institutions from across the UK, in backing a pledge to support their technicians by becoming founding signatories of the Technician Commitment.
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John Innes Centre scientist Dr Cristobal Uauy has received national recognition for his pioneering work in global wheat breeding programmes
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Streptomyces bacteria are today recognised as globally important industrial microbes, producers of most of the world’s antibiotics
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Professor Graham Moore and the University of Bristol’s Professor Keith Edwards have been jointly awarded the 2018 Rank Prize in Nutrition (Human and Animal Nutrition and Crop Husbandry) for their exceptional contribution to wheat research.
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Jemima Brinton, a PhD student in her final year at the John Innes Centre, has been awarded the PhD Monogram Early Career Excellence Award (MECEA) at the 2017 annual MonoGram meeting in Bristol
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Scientists at the John Innes Centre, working in partnership with colleagues at the Earlham Institute, The Sainsbury Laboratory and the European Bioinformatics Institute, report in the journal Genome Research the most accurate and complete DNA sequence analyses of the wheat genome to date
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Major new strategic investment in the John Innes Centre, in UK science and in global food security. As one of the world’s foremost research institutes, the John Innes Centre has today been awarded £77.9m[1],[2] in a series of new strategic programme investments by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). Four new strategic research...
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