Dr Sarah Eglington joined UEA’s Postgraduate Research Service in November 2014 as the NRPDTP’s Placement Coordinator. She has been located with the NRPDTP Team in the Norwich Bioscience Institutes (NBI) Graduate School. This month she leaves us to ...
Congratulations to NRPDTP student Bryony Yates for her part in the UEA University Challenge team. The UEA team sailed through the first round against the University of Strathclyde with an impressive score of 235. Well done all.
An NRPDTP Supervisor, Professor Saskia Hogenhout, has been elected as a member of the prestigious European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO). EMBO’s mission is to support talented researchers at all stages of their careers, stimulate the exchange ...
On Thursday 15th June the NRPDTP doctoral candidates came together for the annual Summer Conference held in the JIC Conference Centre at the Norwich Research Park. The audience of about 160 included NRPDTP students Collaborative Training Partnership students ...
A Partner organisation of the NRPDTP, the University of East Anglia (UEA), has climbed into the top 40 universities in the world for sustainability, according to a leading international league table. UEA placed joint 36th globally out of nearly 1,600 ...
Jonathan Jones, a professor at The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) and an NRPDTP Board member, has received the Outstanding Achievement Award from The International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI). This award recognizes an investigator ...
The Anglia Ruskin Vice Chancellor’s Outstanding Alumni Awards celebrate Anglia Ruskin graduates who have made outstanding contributions to their communities and professional fields. Bushra Schuitemaker, an NRPDTP student based at QIB, was shortlisted ...
Marina Millan-Blanquez, a fourth year NRPDTP PhD student based at the John Innes Centre, is one of five leading young scientists worldwide to receive a Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) award for 2023. The WIT award, established in 2010 under ...
Anne Osbourn has been awarded the 2023 Novozymes Prize for her pioneering work producing important drugs & improving the natural defence systems of plants. The Novozymes Prize recognises outstanding research or technology contributions that benefit ...
Johanna Winder, a second-year NRPDTP student based at UEA, has won first prize in the poster competition at the 71st Annual meeting of the British Phycological Society in Newcastle. The poster abstract is below. The genome of the polar diatom Fragilariopsis ...
Benedict Coombes, an NRPDTP student based at the Earlham Institute, has helped develop an exotic wheat DNA that could help in the breeding of ‘climate-proof’ crops. The work, which was undertaken in collaboration with the International Maize ...
Professor Nathalie Juge, a board member of the NRPDTP, has been appointed Deputy Chief Scientific Officer (DCSO) at the Quadram Institute. The Deputy CSO role supports the Chief Scientific Officer and both roles are pivotal to the development of the Institute’s ...