John Innes Centre scientists lead new textbook on plant biology
This lavishly-illustrated textbook is written at a level accessible to undergraduate biologists, and will be a valuable resource for all students and teachers of biology.
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Blog Alumni stories: Dr Ruth Bryant, from plant breeding to crop protection – an insight into agriculture
Ruth studied at the John Innes Centre from 2009 to 2013 after completing a Biology degree at the University of Manchester and working for the Food and Environment Research Agency. We spoke with Ruth about her love of plant pathology which has taken her career from Cereal Pathologist at RAGT to Disease Control Scientific Expert at Syngenta.
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News Alumni Career Story: Jos van Boxtel: A pathway lined with new opportunities and friendships
Whilst completing a PhD at CIRAD in Montpellier, Jos came across a job opening published in Nature that gave him the chills. The year was 1995 and the advertised vacancy was to work in the Virology department within the John Innes Centre. “The job vacancy was a perfect fit with my ambitions. The project was...
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News Alumni Career Story: Dr. Filomena De Lucia – Post-doc to Proud Teacher
In the next of our series of interviews with JIC alumni, we spoke to Dr Filomena De Lucia, about her experience of working at the John Innes Centre and her career journey from there. After gaining specific expertise in the field of chromatin and epigenetics during her PhD at the University of Naples, Italy, in...
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Blog Alumni Career Stories: Dr Nick Gosman, My Scientific Family
In a recent call for John Innes Alumni Mentors, we were delighted to hear from Dr. Nick Gosman, who offered to mentor current staff and students, and to share his own experiences of how mentoring and ongoing support has been key to his own career successes. As we launch the Alumni Mentors on the NBI...
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Blog Alumni Career Stories: Dr Sancha Salgueiro, Bench Scientist to CEO in Life Science Business
Meet Dr Sancha Salgueiro, a member of the John Innes Centre’s Alumni Network. Sancha joined Roger Hull’s lab in the Virology department at the John Innes Centre in October 1988 as a visiting worker. She stayed in Roger’s lab to complete a PhD with the University of East Anglia between September 1989 to September 1992....
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Blog A brief history of everything ‘Rec Centre
Norwich Research Park is today a bustling international research community with a small secret
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Blog Forget me not; our plant and microbial alumni
Beginning life as an old, rather out of date database of a few names, our alumni network has been given a new lease of life by a project to reinvigorate our relationship with our alumni
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News High-notes and harmony – remembering the life and career of Professor Jeffrey Davies
Former colleagues have fondly remembered the rich and varied achievements of Professor Jeffrey “Jeff” Davies, a leading figure in plant virology at the John Innes Centre for more than 20 years
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