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 ...
Read the storyA 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 ...
Read the storyJonathan 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 ...
Read the storyThe 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 ...
Read the storyMarina 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 ...
Read the storyAnne 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 ...
Read the storyJohanna 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 ...
Read the storyBenedict 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 ...
Read the storyProfessor 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 ...
Read the storyJames 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 ...
Read the storyFor 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 ...
Read the storyAnna 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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