The mention of spider venom is enough to send shivers down the spine of many, but not for a group of researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) researching its ability to ease pain. The team, two of whom are DTP students Lucka Bibic and Samuel ...
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The John Innes Centre has become the first institution in the UK to achieve an Athena SWAN Gold Award. The Athena SWAN Charter was originally established to encourage and recognise commitment to advancing women’s careers in science, technology, ...
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Two DTP students, Ana Bermejo Martinez and Jade Doughty, have recently travelled to Kenya to start a new programme at Pwani University in Kilifi for their PIPS placement. Following their involvement in the DevSET (Development Scientist Support Exchange ...
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An international research partnership, which DTP student Ben White is involved in, has sequenced the genome of the white Guinea yam for the first time. Known to millions of people as the “King of the Crops,” the yam is a staple crop with huge economic ...
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DTP student, Ben Wagstaff has been involved in new research which has found that millions of fish-deaths caused by toxic Prymnesium algal blooms could be prevented with the application of a household chemical best known for bleaching hair. Trials carried ...
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Freya Varden and Josie Maidment have recently had a new review paper published in Current Opinion in Plant Biology highlighting recent advances in the field of plant pathogens and global food security research. The article is entitled Taking the stage: ...
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On Friday 21st July 2017 the first cohort of DTP students celebrated their graduation. After attending the main ceremony at UEA, a graduation celebration was hosted back at the NRP where the DTP students were joined by other NBI students celebrating their ...
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With stunning ocean views over Osaka Bay, Awaji Island played host to the first Cold Spring Harbor Asia Plant Biology meeting in Japan. The meeting, “Latest Advances in Plant Development and Environmental Response” (#CSHAPB), provided a platform to ...
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Lučka Bibic, a DTP student based at UEA in the School of Pharmacy recently won the prize for the best 3MT (‘3 minute thesis’) presentation competition award at the UEA School of Pharmacy Research Day. You can view the three minute presentation that ...
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Scientists at the John Innes Centre have identified a unique mechanism that the soil dwelling bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens uses to effectively exploit nutrients in the root environment. The breakthrough offers multiple new applications, for the study ...
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The annual NRPDTP Summer Conference took place at the Assembly House, Norwich on 15th June 2017. The theme of the conference was Agriculture and Food Security, with talks from a range of noted speakers across the discipline. Professor Appolinaire Djikeng, ...
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Nicola Cook, a second year student at the John Innes Centre in Diane Saunders’ lab, has just started her iCASE placement with Syngenta at their Stein laboratory in Switzerland. Nicola Cook, a second year student at the John Innes Centre in Diane Saunders’ ...
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