Alumni stories; Inspiring the next generation – Dr Samantha Fox
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
Read the storyWe caught up with Dr Sam Fox, former Research Assistant and now Director of the Youth STEMM Award to hear the story of her career
Read the storyHow do we feed a growing population in a changing climate? One solution is to develop resilient crop varieties. But how can we achieve this increased resilience in crops? New John Innes Centre Group Leader Dr Sanu Arora is working on just that, so we asked her what her group will be doing?
Read the storyCo-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?
Read the storyDr Shannon McKie has recently completed her PhD studying how an ancient enzyme works. We sat down with Shannon, to find out why she chose her project, how she found studying abroad and what are future plans are after finishing her PhD
Read the storyTo mark LGBTSTEMDAY we asked some of our staff and students to tell us about their experiences of life as an LGBTQ+ person on the Norwich Research Park
Read the storySince 2017, we have supported Professional Internships for PhD students (PIPS) in Kenya, focussed on communications, capacity building and building research networks
Read the storyDr 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
Read the storyDr Guy Polturak is a postdoctoral scientist, spending his days hunting through gene clusters for the genes involved in specific biosynthetic pathways
Read the storyPhD 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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