🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a Research Scientist to join the Laboratory of Dr Chris Quince based at the Quadram Institute and @earlhaminst.bsky.social in the Food, Microbiome and Health programme 🔬 💷 £37,500 to £45,350 🗓️ Apply by 30 November 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/E19Nd83

A fantastic talk from @andrewmillar.bsky.social for our Dame Janet Thornton Lecture - some fascinating considerations and insights across science and societal impact, refocusing research questions, and the urgent pull factors beyond the lab presented by global threats. @neilhall.bsky.social

📣 Applications have just opened for our 2026 #PhD programme as part of the @nrpdtp.bsky.social and @aries-dtp.bsky.social! Begin your academic career with the expert scientists, technology, and facilities at the Earlham Institute in Norwich. buff.ly/327FNrX #genomics #findaphd #AcademicSky

🚀 The BioFAIR Fellowship launched today! Leaders in data & workflows, working together to advance FAIR practices for the life sciences. 👉 full details: biofair.uk/updates/2025... #FAIR #OpenScience

The BBC are usually so keen to give us Reform news. Can’t imagine why this isn’t featuring prominently on their website…

Scientists at the Earlham Institute and @quadraminstitute.bsky.social are part of a new collaboration looking at how different land uses impact #soil #microbes and their contribution to carbon storage. buff.ly/lKP3kGW #microbial #genomics

It was a delight to have Guillaume Delhaye and Torda Varga (@rbgkew.bsky.social) at @earlhaminst.bsky.social last week, talking to a packed Norwich Research Park audience about mushroom-forming and mycorrhizal fungi from molecule to ecosystem! 🍄🧬🌳 @neilhall.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social

🧬 Are you looking to establish and lead an internationally recognised programme of innovative research in #engineeringbiology? ⚙️ Join our Research Faculty as a new Group Leader: buff.ly/7uI1FQL #EngBio #Biotech #SynBio

🧬 Are you looking to establish and lead an internationally recognised programme of innovative research in #engineeringbiology? ⚙️ Join our Research Faculty as a new Group Leader: buff.ly/VGQNod7 #EngBio #Biotech #SynBio

Our paper on phylogenetics of fungal Starship TEs is now on the cover of the June issue of Genetics @genetics-gsa.bsky.social 🙂 academic.oup.com/genetics/iss... @mcmullan0.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @rothamsted.bsky.social

Register to join our #singlecell and #spatial symposium next month! We're bringing the community together to discover the last science and technologies in: 🦠 Environmental microbes 🧠 Healthy human development and ageing 🌱 Plant development 🧬 Human pathology ↔️ Cell dynamics 🖥️ 🧬 🧪

A great morning of talks at our Scientific Advisory Board Symposium, exploring key research outputs from our #Cellular #Genomics research programme, as well as the expertise and research applications of our technology platforms. #genomics #datascience #engbio 🧬🖥️ @neilhall.bsky.social

📃 A new publication from @mcmullan0.bsky.social and the Hall Group studies pathogen genetic diversity to uncover how #crop #pathogens may be evolving in wild reservoirs. 🌱 buff.ly/I17w6p8 @neilhall.bsky.social

I love football #LIVTOT

Applications are open for an exciting new PhD project with @sarah-guiziou.bsky.social in collaboration with the Earlham Biofoundry. The project will focus on #engineeringbiology and the plant root #microbiome developing applications for sustainable #agriculture.

High-quality metagenome assembly from nanopore reads with nanoMDBG www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/GaetanBenoit...

Applications are open for a #Postdoc Researcher to join @whaerty.bsky.social at the Earlham Institute. As part of a HorizonEU funded consortium, you'll undertake analysis of functional implications of variation within #noncoding #sequences in relation to cardiovascular disorders.

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🆕 Fully funded #PhD with @neilhall.bsky.social and @mcmullan0.bsky.social analysing genetic diversity in the genomes of potential crop invasion pathogens and plant hosts associated with resistance. 📆 Apply by: 21 April ➡️ buff.ly/RpmTSFN #plantscience #agritech

💬 “Being in Norwich, at the heart of UK #plantsciences, will allow me to build strong collaborations and contribute to the development of resilient, sustainable #crops capable of meeting the challenges of a growing population and a changing climate.” - @willshaw.bsky.social buff.ly/FQEQcIP #synbio

Great to welcome collaborators to the Earlham Institute today for a meeting of the National Bioscience Research Infrastructure in Transformative Genomics. The NBRI unites specialist facilities and expertise in scalable genomics, #longread sequencing, and #singlecell. @drkarimgharbi.bsky.social

The final version of our paper on genomics of understudied fungal root pathogens/endophytes of wheat is now out! The result of close ongoing collab between @earlhaminst.bsky.social (@mcmullan0.bsky.social @greymj.bsky.social @neilhall.bsky.social et al) and @rothamsted.bsky.social rdcu.be/edlB9

💬 “LITE2 really shines when coupled with ultra-high-throughput #sequencing on the #Illumina #NovaSeqX, this has brought affordable whole-#genome sequencing to a new level.” 🧬 🖥️

🔬 Discover how #SpatialTranscriptomics is unlocking insights into the ageing brain with @parker-aim.bsky.social (@quadraminstitute.bsky.social) at the NBRI Transformative Genomics User Meeting. 📅 Register:

Unbelievable news. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

MARTi: a real-time analysis and visualisation tool for nanopore metagenomics 🧬🖥️🧪 Preprint https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.14.638261v1 Source https://github.com/richardmleggett/MARTi Docs https://marti.readthedocs.io Demo app https://marti.cyverseuk.org/

While the US trashes public research, the ERC proposes to double its budget. That would be huge and an excellent opportunity for scientists in the US to come to democratic 🇪🇺

Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Three days. Incredible minds. Big ideas. 💡✨ Just wrapped up an amazing hackathon with the folks at HDR UK – diverse talent, bold ideas at the intersection of #LifeScience and #HealthData. Can’t wait to share what we built! Until then, here’s a little visual teaser. Stay tuned for more! 👀

Technological advances have transformed #sequencing, but costs and timescales can still be limiting, especially in library generation. Earlham Institute's updated Low Input, Transposase Enabled (LITE) protocol offers low-cost, high-throughput whole #genome sequencing with reduced DNA input. 💻🧬🧪

It's shocking to see how #OpenData has become a doom scrolling feed thanks to the orange turds great deletion of US data. As many others have noted open data is a cornerstone of transparent and accountable society. Dismantling and censoring it is a terribly regressive step.

"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

It was a pleasure to help with the first fungal genome assembly completed via @ergabiodiv.bsky.social - the endangered bracket fungus Somion occarium. Many thanks to all collaborators @earlhaminst.bsky.social #MENDELU #IMIC @czechacademy.bsky.social @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @neilhall.bsky.social

💬 "We urge Ministers to heed the Committee’s suggestions on the need for longer-term funding, measures for talent recruitment and skills development, and implementation of new market-enabling regulation to unlock investment." @neilhall.bsky.social 3/4

💬 "The DEFRA Secretary’s commitment to implementing the new Precision Breeding Act is great news. “The regulation that will be established by this legislation will create new markets for healthier, more environmentally beneficial plant products." - Prof Neil Hall, Director of the Earlham Institute.

Following an earlier publication, researchers at the Earlham Institute and @oxfordbiology.bsky.social have further explored multiple independent genetic code changes within the Phyllopharyngea class of ciliates. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics... #protists #bioinformatics 🧪🧬🖥️

This is very sad news news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/01/07/o... Alan taught me microbiology as an undergrad and was later a great colleague and mentor. He was a talented scientist and teacher and a principled human being with a wicked sense of humour - a huge loss

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Jesus is having a good Christmas #CRYARS

Applications are open for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral #PhD project with Prof Irene Papatheodorou, developing comprehensive cell atlases of regeneration in three different species, zebrafish, mouse and axolotl. #singlecell #cellatlas @daniorecode.bsky.social 📅 Apply by: 16 January 2025

Heading home from Norwich Research Park for the last time this year. Back in 2025 !!

Exciting news! 🎉 Tony Burdett is the new Director of BioFAIR! With his expertise in FAIR data & leadership at EMBL-EBI and ELIXIR, BioFAIR's mission to enable global, FAIR-compliant data sharing is in great hands. Learn more: elixiruknode.org/news/2024/ap... #FAIRData #LifeSciences #Leadership

The Earlham Institute has appointed Tony Burdett as the new Director of BioFAIR - a £34m UKRI programme to revolutionise UK #lifescience research by transforming how we facilitate #research #datamanagement. 🧬🖥️ @neilhall.bsky.social @elixiruknode.org

Applications close Friday (20) for PhD projects as part of the @daniorecode.bsky.social MSCA doctoral network. Project available with Prof Irene Papatheodorou working on comprehensive cell atlases of regeneration in three different species. #zebrafish #singlecell

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Thanks to funding from BBSRC, a new state-of-the-art #DataCentre is set to bolster UK #bioscience capability, delivering high-density computing power to support future advancements across the Norwich Bioscience Institutes. www.earlham.ac.uk/news/new-dat...

🆕 New Data Centre at Norwich Research Park set to bolster UK’s bioscience capability @earlhaminst.bsky.social John Innes Centre @thesainsburylab.bsky.social https://buff.ly/3ZHEVQ4

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Supported by UKRI, BioFAIR UK aims to accelerate the adoption of #FAIRdata principles across the UK #lifesciences. The BioFAIR team are now seeking members for their Research and Technical Advisory Group (RTAG)