Excellence in plant and microbial science
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council has awarded us a Doctoral Landscape Award, partnered with the University of East Anglia, The Sainsbury Laboratory, the Quadram Institute, and the Earlham Institute, all located on the Norwich Research Park. These awards support discovery-driven research at universities across the UK to train the next generation of scientists.
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Earlier this year, in January 2024, three PhD students journeyed from Kenya to Nepal for their professional internship placements (PIPS) with MARPLE diagnostics, empowering scientists with essential molecular biology skills in a collaborative effort to strengthen local agricultural research centres. The John Innes Centre team of NRPDTP students, Cesaree Morier-Gxoyiya, Delfi Dorussen, and Tom Lock...
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The Rt Hon Mark Spencer MP, Food and Farming Minister at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, (Defra) visited Norwich Research Park to see how technologies such as gene editing can help farmers to grow more nutritious, disease resistant and environmentally sustainable crops
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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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In October 2022, the Rosalind Franklin Society Award in Science for the best paper in the CRISPR Journal 2021 was presented to Dr. Mikhaela Neequaye, research assistant in the Byers group. Mikhaela started her current role at the John Innes Centre in November 2020, having recently completed her PhD, co-supervised by Professor Richard Mithen (then...
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We chat to Caroline Stone, a second year PhD student in Professor Mark Banfield’s research group, about her research project and career
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We hear about the experience of Rothamsted PhD student Alex Borg working in our Communications and Engagement team.
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We had a chat with PhD student Marina about her experience of the Erasmus+ programme, her research project and working at the John Innes Centre.
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We caught up with five PhD students to find out more about their experiences in the Biotechnology Young Entrepeneur Scheme (BiotechYES) competition.
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