We caught up with Dr Sam Fox, former Research Assistant and now Director of the Youth STEMM Award to hear the story of her career

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

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

Dr Andrew Lucy joined the John Innes as a technician in 1987, by the time he left he had earned a PhD, discovered science to be exhilarating, fun and populated by amazing people and become Dr Lucy. This is his incredible story

Since the creation of our alumni network earlier this year, we have enjoyed hearing the stories of a huge variety of people who have passed from our institute over the years. One of those people is Dr Kathy Faulkner, who has moved from the lab to the classroom

We caught up with former John Innes Centre PhD student and Postdoc Tom van den Boogaart to see where his career has taken him so far and find out what advice he would give to scientists considering the same

Earlier this year, a newly discovered single-cell microbe that can survive in extreme environments was named after Dr Renu Swarup, current Secretary in the Indian government’s Department of Biotechnology and former John Innes Centre Postdoctoral Scientist

For aspiring plant breeders, our postgraduate MSc course in Plant Genetics and Crop Improvement has earned a reputation as an entry point for the next generation of plant breeders

For our final blog of 2019, we say goodbye to Stephan Johnson, who retired this month after a 40-year career here at the John Innes Centre