Excellence in plant and microbial science
We have collaborated with a microbiologist at the University of Liverpool, who has co-written a comic book aiming to help young people aged 10 and above understand the wonder of microbes
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Researchers have identified a previously undescribed component that is important for the ability of bacteria to divide
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Co-located with us on the Norwich Research Park is the University of East Anglia, so we sought out a new perspective for what attracts students to study science here in Norwich. This week we are joined by third-year integrated masters microbiology student Katie Sutton. We asked her “why microbiology?”, and what studying science at university is really like?
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New UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank to safeguard future research and facilitate sustainable production of UK’s six major food crops
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PhD student Kathy Stratton, works with Dr Susan Schlimpert on understanding Streptomyces venezualae and specifically how cell division in Streptomyces is controlled in response to DNA damage. We asked Kathy, what are microbes, why are they interesting and where do you find them?
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We welcome the latest group to join an ongoing quest to understand Streptomyces - a bacteria crucial to human health and medicine - led by Professor Matt Hutchings
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You may not have heard of geosmin but, wherever you may be on this planet, it is highly likely that you’d recognise its smell. New research by scientists in Sweden and the UK has helped to explain why it exists
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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
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2020 is the International Year for Plant Health, so we caught up with the lead of our Plant Health research programme, Professor Mark Banfield
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