Factcheck study shows that Mendel’s statistics add up
The famous experiments of the 19th century Moravian monk Gregor Mendel set down universal laws that still underpin the field of genetics
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Blog How can we use computers to better understand plant development?
We chatted with new Group Leader Richard Smith about his computational path from computer graphics, to investigating how genes control cell growth
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Blog How do plants tell the time?
Dr Antony Dodd's research covers circadian rhythm and signalling in plants, we asked him how do plants tell the time and do plants suffer from jet lag?
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Blog 40 years at the John Innes Centre
For our final blog of 2019, we say goodbye to Stephan Johnson, who retired this month after a 40-year career here at the John Innes Centre
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Press Release New Year’s Honours recognition for Professor Anne Osbourn FRS
Professor Anne Osbourn has been awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to plant science, thanks to her pioneering work in plant natural product biosynthesis
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Blog Being a scientist and a Mum
Natassja Bush is a Postdoctoral Scientist and a mother. We caught up with Natassja to find out how she was getting on, what she had learned and what she would say to anyone in science considering starting or extending their family.
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Blog Growing world-class plants for world-class plant science
At the John Innes Centre we have 70 Controlled Environment Rooms and glasshouses, where over 7,000 plants are grown each year, all planted and looked after by our Horticultural Services team
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News RustWatch workshop on MARPLE diagnostics brings together researchers from across Europe
Fourteen researchers from eight European countries came together to attend a workshop providing training in genomics-based, pathogen diagnostic and surveillance techniques as part of the Horizon2020-funded RustWatch program
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Blog The inaugural Early Career Researchers Conference
Towards the end of 2019, a group of our scientists headed off to Spain for the inaugural Early Career Researchers Conference, we asked two of them; Jo Hepworth and Millie Stanton, to tell us all about it
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