John Innes Centre

BLOG - Improvements to crops are essential to feed a burgeoning world population. Here's Dr Brande Wulff and PhD Student Amber Hafeez on speeding up breeding and other ways of feeding 10 billion people to meet the 2050 challenge https://okt.to/gprqNl

VACANCY - We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the department of Crop Genetics, to help provide administrative support for the MSc course in Plant Genetics and Crop Improvement https://okt.to/Uw9lzh

TIMEVINE - Over 160 years of pea research, from Gregor Mendel to Claire Domoney and pea seed products that could help defeat diabetes. Here is our pea timevine https://okt.to/2V4sKk

VACANCY - We’re looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the lab of Professor Alison Smith to identify the genetic basis of starch granule diversity in endosperms, using techniques including screens of mutant populations, transgenesis, cell biology and microscopy, and modelling https://okt.to/ebi6xc

VACANCY - We’re looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the labs of Professor Anne Osbourn (Norwich) and Dr Yang Bai (Beijing) to investigate the impact of the environment on production of host metabolites that sculpt root microbial communities https://okt.to/bvgjCa

PARTY - To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Genetics Society by William Bateson and Edith Rebecca Saunders we are hosting a series of special events and a special Centenary Medal Lecture by Sir Paul Nurse. 25 June 2019. 2pm onwards https://okt.to/aGo8Wd

BLOG - Improvements to crops are essential to feed a burgeoning world population. Here's Dr Brande Wulff and PhD Student Amber Hafeez on speeding up breeding and other ways of feeding 10 billion people to meet the 2050 challenge https://okt.to/3UN8bB

BLOG - Where does human intelligence come from and what advantage did it give to our ancestors? Professor Enrico Coen, provides a new theory in a celebratory issue of 'Heredity', celebrating the 100th birthday of the founding of the Genetics Society https://okt.to/2SyzcN

VACANCY - We’re looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the lab of Professor Caroline Dean to study the mechanism of epigenetic switching at the Arabidopsis locus FLC https://okt.to/UoZP9b

VACANCY - We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join the lab of Dr Diane Saunders to study the notorious wheat stem rust pathogen, Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, associated with crop failures and famine throughout history https://okt.to/r9ca5e

PARTY - To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Genetics Society by William Bateson and Edith Rebecca Saunders we are hosting a series of special events and a special Centenary Medal Lecture by Sir Paul Nurse. 25 June 2019. 2pm onwards https://okt.to/HNkaRB

READ - 'Highlights of Streptomyces genetics' by Sir David Hopwood is out now in the Journal; 'Heredity' https://okt.to/KVHye7

BLOG - Where does human intelligence come from and what advantage did it give to our ancestors? Professor Enrico Coen, provides a new theory in a celebratory issue of 'Heredity', celebrating the 100th birthday of the founding of the Genetics Society https://okt.to/ibPDBA

VACANCY - We’re looking for a Trainee Assistant Entomologist to help to maintain, design, undertake and oversee studies using many different species of invertebrates, including non-native exotic and native plant pest species https://okt.to/X5qaVy

MIKE BEVAN FRS OBE - Queen’s Birthday Honours recognition for Professor Michael Bevan, who has been appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to plant genomics https://okt.to/50cRAi

VACANCY - We’re looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the labs of Professor Anne Osbourn (Norwich) and Dr Yang Bai (Beijing) to investigate the impact of the environment on production of host metabolites that sculpt root microbial communities https://okt.to/L9Zilk

ILLUSTRATION - This illustration by Louise Fitzgerald of 1 of our Controlled Environment Rooms, that allow precise control of plant environments. It features in the illustration magazine @Ephemeralpub ‏whose latest issue is themed on some of our work -> https://okt.to/yqOBWZ