Cathie Martin, an NRPDTP supervisor based at the John Innes Centre, has been awarded the prestigious Rank Prize for Nutrition for her globally significant research in making fruit and vegetables more nutritious. Professor Martin will formally receive ...
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This week 38 new students joined us for our online Welcome and Induction where we outlined what the programme involved and described the launch of our redefined training, learning and development programme. Previous students gave talks about their experience ...
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As part of the 2021 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, DTP students Elie Kent and Ned Peel are working with other scientists at the Earlham Institute (EI), and University of Cambridge to help answer the seemingly innocuous question of what is ...
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Former NRPDTP student Lučka Bibič was invited to participate in TEDx Krsko as a TedX speaker. In her talk, How gamers are solving science’s biggest problems, she discusses the power of VR games in solving science problems, ranging from researching ...
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On Thursday 17th June the NRPDTP doctoral candidates all came together for a virtual annual Summer Conference held on the online platform Gather Town, a video-calling space that lets multiple people join in parallel, enabling attendees to mingle and chat ...
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Bruno Ngou, a previous NRPDTP student based at The Sainsbury Laboratory, has had a first author paper “Mutual Potentiation of Plant Immunity by Cell-surface and Intracellular Receptors”, published in Nature. Bruno and his coauthors at The Sainsbury ...
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The UEA Engagement Awards celebrate and recognise public engagement by students, staff, academics and departments from UEA and the Norwich Research Park. The awards this year took place on 9th June and NRPDTP students James Canham and Danny Ward both ...
Read the storyThe inaugural SustainableUEA Awards took place recently. The awards recognise the achievements of staff and students across UEA who have made contributions to the UEA sustainability agenda, celebrating their work in making the University and local, regional, ...
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Natalia Zielonka, a DTP student based at the University of East Anglia, has published a blog post about her recent fieldwork trip on the Wines of Great Britain website. Natalia’s research is focussing on looking at how landscape and management practices ...
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NRPDTP Board Member and Supervisor, Professor Jonathan Jones, has been made an Honorary Member of the British Society for Plant Pathology. The BSPP appoints an honorary member each year, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to plant pathology. ...
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Having kept chickens for longer than she can remember, Bushra Abu-Helil always considered them her ‘gateway’ animal into natural sciences. Borrowing an old incubator from a friend, throughout high school she would hatch chickens and peacocks in her ...
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Developed in response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, ViralLink is a systems biology workflow which reconstructs and analyses networks representing the effect of viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, on intracellular signalling. NRPDTP alumna Agatha Traveil was ...
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