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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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James Canham, a DTP alumnus, was recently awarded a Doctoral Career Development Fund (DCDF) Associate position. The DCDF was set up by the BBSRC in order to support doctoral candidates and recent graduates in the pursuit of their career goals and designed ...
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For James, as someone who’s always taken a keen interest in social sports, the Covid-19 lockdowns presented a bit of a challenge. But let’s not get into that, no-one wants to hear about lockdowns again. The long and short of it was that like many ...
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Anna Fortuny-Gomez, a NRPDTP student based at UEA, recently attended the Pharmacology annual conference organised by the British Pharmacological Society and was awarded the Early Career Poster Prize at Pharmacology 2022 diploma and £250. Anna has been ...
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This week 33 new postgraduate research students joined us for our Welcome and Induction Workshop where the programme was described. Previous students gave talks about their experience so far with the NRPDPT and everyone found out more about each other ...
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TraitSeq, developed by Josh Colmer during his NRPDTP PhD based at the Earlham Institute (EI), is an end-to-end laboratory and computational pipeline that uses cutting-edge machine learning (ML) methods to generate biomarkers using transcriptomic data. ...
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Professor Diane Saunders, an NRPDTP supervisor, has been made a recipient of the 2022 Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture. The award recognises Professor Saunders’ long-term achievements in the field of plant pathology and will support ...
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Paul Nicholson, and NRPDTP supervisor based at the JIC, has been awarded the 2022 RKS Wood prize. Paul will deliver his talk on Wednesday 7th September at the British Society for Plant Pathology (BSPP) Presidential meeting ‘Microbial lifestyles: from ...
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