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...

New findings about the mechanisms of long-distance signalling in plants were published last month in Science Advances. The findings debunk longstanding theories of how plants rely on calcium waves to respond systemically to wounding and other stresses.   John Innes Centre researchers suggest that calcium waves transmitted through plants are not the primary response but are...

Dr Penny Hundleby is a Senior Scientist specialising in the development of genetic modification (GM) and gene editing (GE) technologies for UK crops, supporting UK and international researchers by providing transformed plants for their research

Professor Paul Nicholson recently received the British Society for Plant Pathologists’ RKS Wood prize in recognition of his contribution as a researcher and mentor

Norwich Research Park is today a bustling international research community with a small secret

Auxin is an essential plant hormone and according to research at the John Innes Centre, it’s full of surprises

A project highlighting the importance of pollinators to plant growth has inspired a group of schoolchildren to early scientific endeavours

Face-to-face, hands-on science engagement has been difficult during pandemic-affected times. So it was with great enthusiasm that a scientific scrum of John Innes Centre researchers, staff and students headed to the Royal Norfolk Show

Earlier this year we sat down with Dr Siobhán Dorai-Raj our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Advisor to find out more about her role, and her career so far. Over to Siobhán. “I moved from my hometown Galway, Ireland, to London with my husband and our toddler Isabella, when my husband began a postdoctoral position...