EVENT - Apply today for the John Innes/Rudjer Bošković: Applied #Molecular #Microbiology Summer School (Microbial Specialised Metabolites: Discovery, Biosynthesis and Function) 🗓️ 12 - 20 Sept 2026 📍Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia Deadline: 23 Jan 2026 www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

This week, @cristobaluauy.bsky.social spoke to the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee in the @houseofcommons.parliament.uk about how science and technological innovation can help to support global food security.

NEWS - Dr Myriam Charpentier awarded Adam Kondorosi prize Dr @charpentiermyriam.bsky.social has received a prestigious international award from the Academia Europaea for her groundbreaking research into plant-microbe interactions. www.jic.ac.uk/news/dr-myri...

Want to hear about excellent #microbial research from leading scientists? 🦠 The Centre for Microbial Interactions Conference is back next year with an amazing line-up 👇 @norwichmicro.bsky.social

Followed by our fantastic careers panel of DSW members past and present - sharing their career journeys and inspiring the next generation of plant scientists 🌾🌱

We were delighted to be joined by Professor Richard Flavell who spoke about his experience "joining the race to feed the world". 🌾🧑‍🔬🥼

We're still buzzing after yesterday’s session with 95 amazing students diving into plant science, food security, and sustainability. Their enthusiasm and questions show that the next generation of scientists is ready to make a difference. 🌾🌱

We’ll explore how plant science underpins global food security - from improving crop resilience to supporting sustainability and innovation in agriculture. Here’s to inspiring the next generation of plant scientists! 🌱👩‍🔬

🌾 Excited for today’s training session with undergraduates exploring food security, wheat research & careers in plant science. #GreenHorizons #PlantScience #FoodSecurity #WheatResearch #Sustainability #STEMCareers #FutureOfFood

Toad hibernation burrow building 🐸 Last week, enthusiastic volunteers from across the Norwich Research Park came together to create a cosy winter refuge for toads in our courtyard 🍃🪵

BLOG - Alumni stories: Dr Ruth Bryant, from #plant #breeding to #crop protection Ruth Bryant studied in the Ridout lab from 2009-2013, and her career has since taken her from Cereal Pathologist, RAGT to Disease Control Scientific Expert, Syngenta. www.jic.ac.uk/blog/alumni-...

🌿 Ciara O'Brien 🌿 As a postdoctoral researcher at the John Innes Centre, Ciara's current research focuses on starch metabolism in potatoes 🥔 She's a strong advocate for early career development & has been involved in many early career initiatives in the past! @johninnescentre.bsky.social

🌿 Pankaj Kumar 🌿 Currently a postdoc @johninnescentre.bsky.social, Pankaj is passionate about connecting science & farming. He runs an initiative in India connecting farmers with recent innovations and has been involved in platforms influencing plant gene editing policies in the EU 🧬

Rather than a static database, we've built an AI plant scientist that could continuously learn new knowledge😃Hope it will help the plant science [email protected] @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @universityofexeter.bsky.social #AIscientist

We’ve built this virtual plant scientist PlantScience.ai to grow alongside human researchers🌿. It thinks like an expert, cites like a scholar, and never stops learning. Come and have a chat with it! @yiliangding.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

EVENT - Centre for Microbial Interactions Annual Conference 2026 Register now to attend in-person or virtually @norwichmicro.bsky.social 🗓️ 4-5 March 2026 📍John Innes Conference Centre, NR4 7UH ⏰ Deadline for registration - 25 February 2026: okt.to/16MLmH Full programme: okt.to/YF8TVe

The #MBioSys25 keynote lectures by Prof Caroline Dean (@johninnescentre.bsky.social) and Prof @elowitzlab.bsky.social (Caltech) are now online! Watch (or revisit!) these two inspiring talks on gene regulation & functional genomics, available for free on our channel www.youtube.com/@MolecularBi...

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a seminar at the Fellows Conference, which will be held on 10 March 2026. Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years. Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

VACANCY - Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions We’re inviting applications from outstanding researchers who either hold, or wish to apply for, Independent Research Fellowships. APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10 November 2025 Click here to apply: jic.link/Fellows

NEWS – Planting a purple patch: John Innes Centre and Rotary dig in for World Polio Day The Rotary Club of Norwich has donated 2,000 purple crocus corms to our institute to mark #WorldPolioDay 🌍 1/4

Thank you to Sir Ian Chapman, CEO of @ukri.org, and BBSRC's Dr Jef Grainger and Dr Lee Beniston FRSB for visiting us at Norwich Research Park yesterday, to see how plant and microbial science is supporting healthy plants, healthy people and a healthy planet 🌱🌍

Delighted to be selected for the Carlotta Award celebrating female wheat researchers 🎉 Thank you to the committee - it was lovely to meet you in Bari! I am sure this award will continue to promote women's contributions to wheat research under the stewardship of @wheatinitiative.bsky.social

Congratulations @philippaborrill.bsky.social 👏👏👏

Excited to welcome Bob to Norwich! @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

NEWS - International award for group leader recognises excellence in wheat genetics and genomics Dr Philippa Borrill @philippaborrill.bsky.social recently visited Italy to accept the Carlotta Award at the International Conference ‘From Seed to Pasta V’. okt.to/pUTHXA

@samtmugford.bsky.social from @johninnescentre.bsky.social gave an excellent 2025 Research Support Award Lecture on his work with @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social, exploring plant–insect interactions. #BiochemEvent

@delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social from @gmivienna.bsky.social (a @johninnescentre.bsky.social alumnus) delivered his 2026 Early Career Research Award Lecture on NLR engineering and his ongoing cryo-ET work! #BiochemEvent

Always great to find out more about the people we work with, their background and inspiration @johninnescentre.bsky.social Read more about Prof Christine Faulkner below

Be part of research at the Quadram Institute! We’re launching the ViTaL-D study to investigate whether @johninnescentre.bsky.social biofortified tomatoes developed through gene editing to be high in vitamin D leads to higher levels of active vitamin D in the blood 🍅

Team JIC are having a cracking time in the “Future of Farm and Agriculture” @farmersweeklyuk.bsky.social zone at New Scientist Live @newscientist.com this weekend 🌟🌾 We’re here on Monday too - come along and see stomata down a microscope and our wonderful wheat varieties!! @dsw-isp.bsky.social

NEWS - Exploring the power of plants to make drugs out of sunlight Using approaches in #genomic data gathering, #AI and #biotechnology, researchers in the group of Prof. Anne Osbourn OBE FRS NAS are glimpsing the future of rapid drug and natural product discovery. www.jic.ac.uk/news/explori...

We’re incredibly proud of our researchers’ work - and these recent achievements and accolades obtained by our staff, students and colleagues are well-deserved 🏆🏵️ Find a summary of these awards in Advances #38: www.jic.ac.uk/advances/awa...

Did you know that the JIC was featured in a case study about the importance of #TLevels and developing technical skills? 🌱🔬 Read the case study: itss.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Great to see this blog from @johninnescentre.bsky.social on work involving @camplantsci.bsky.social's Epidemiology & Modelling group - building global defences against wheat rust. @camplantepidem.bsky.social

BLOG - Battling crop diseases without borders: how a research community maintains global defences against wheat rusts For 15 years, DEWAS, an international research collaboration @cimmyt.bsky.social, has been studying, detecting and defusing outbreaks of the devastating crop disease wheat rust.

Our Advances magazine has travelled far and wide this summer! ✈️🌍 Thanks to colleagues Dr Maria Hernandez-Soriano and Naomi Wang for sharing their brilliant photos of our science magazine in London and Seville 📸 Read our latest Advances edition here: www.jic.ac.uk/editions/sum...

... with a stellar line-up of Keynotes & Panellists from science & farming! @kengiller.bsky.social @susfoodtrust.bsky.social @szytynska.bsky.social @plantecohutton.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @nffn.bsky.social @realfarmed.bsky.social Register now 👉 cvent.me/0Zo9ae #plantscience

Fully-funded #PhDposition in my lab @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social Apply before 🗓️ 2nd Dec 2025 👉 biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/mak... Making Drugs Out of Sunlight and "Thin Air" ☀️🌿🧬⚗️ with secondary supervision from Prof. Anne Osbourn @johninnescentre.bsky.social 🥼 #SynBio #OrgChem #PhD

CAKE Club: Autumn plant swap (and hummus tasting!) 🪴🫘 Today was the autumn edition of our bi-annual #plant swap: a chance for colleagues across the JIC to come together, connect and swap/rehome plants and seeds over tea, coffee and…you guessed it, cake! 🍰

Ever wondered why bumbling #bees prefer yellow flowers to red? Or how disease-causing #bacteria can spread between related plants? 💐🦠 Catch up on a snapshot of some of our recent research featured in scientific journals. Read more in our latest edition of Advances: okt.to/DZjEoz

This week is #TLevelsWeek! 🥼🧪 We're passionate about inspiring the next generation of scientists and proudly hosted our first two #TLevel students in 2025. As a founding Technician Commitment signatory, we believe #TLevels are important for securing the future of technical skills in the UK

New pre-print from the team! The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses. Have a read! #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social

This #ADHDAwarenessMonth focuses on the many faces of #ADHD 👫🧠 Diverse cognitive styles, including those associated with ADHD, can lead to innovative problem-solving and unique insights, essential for tackling complex challenges in plant and microbial research 🌱🦠

Delighted to share my latest paper with Anne Osbourn & Charlotte Owen 👉 rdcu.be/eJ27x Where we have been unveiling plants' chemical secrets without ever having to handle the plants @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social (Chemistry) & @johninnescentre.bsky.social Research. #NorwichScience 🌱⚗️⌬

We have a project available for 2026 NRP Doctoral Training Partnership entry (i.e. PhD studentship opportunity!) How do cells communicate when it's hot? Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...

New #PhD opportunity in the Uauy lab @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Can we increase grain number in wheat by studying genes controlling organ identity? #wheat #spikelet #development biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/ide...

PhD studentship Come help us understand the wheat rhizosphere at the Earlham Institute 🦠 Working at the interface of fungal antagonists & pathogens (@rowenahill.bsky.social @neilhall.bsky.social ), host genetic diversity (Simon Griffiths -JIC) and bacterial community diversity (Jacob Malone -JIC)

We have a PhD opportunity available in our group @johninnescentre.bsky.social through the NRP Doctoral Training Partnership. Help us uncover the Hidden Diversity of Bacterial NLRs. Start date: October 2026. For more information and how to apply👉 biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/bey...

📣 Applications are now OPEN for the John Innes Foundation Rotation PhD Programme This 4-year #PhD programme trains graduate students in Plant & Microbial Sciences at The Sainsbury Laboratory, @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social 🗓️ Apply before 13 Nov '25 ➡️ okt.to/qjy60T

We're so proud of @dianagdlc.bsky.social and @mpcontreras.bsky.social, joint winners of the 2024 John Innes Foundation prize for Excellence in Scientific Research 🎉