Erin Baggs, a first year DTP student at the Earlham Institute has recently published an article in Current Opinion in Plant Biology. Plant innate immunity relies on genetically predetermined repertoires of immune receptors to detect pathogens and trigger ...
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On 1st May 2017 Professor Dave Evans started as Director of the NRP Biosciences DTP and Chair of the NBI Graduate School. For 26 years Dave was a project leader with the AFRC/BBSRC, initially at the Nitrogen Fixation Laboratory in Sussex and then at JIC. ...
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We are delighted to announce that the School of Biological Sciences has been awarded Athena SWAN Silver status. The Athena SWAN Charter, created by the Equality Challenge Unit, is designed to promote the advancement of gender equality in higher education ...
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The new £multi-million food and health research centre that will become the state-of-the-art home for the Quadram Institute is on schedule to be complete by mid-2018. As a first step to realising the ambition of the Quadram Institute, the Institute of ...
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As one of the world’s foremost research institutes, the John Innes Centre has today been awarded £77.9m[1],[2] in a series of new strategic programme investments by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). Four new strategic ...
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Tharsini Sivapalan, 26, a PhD student at the Quadram Institute (formerly Institute of Food Research), hailing from Hayes, London, attended Parliament to present her bioscience research to a range of politicians and a panel of expert judges, as part of ...
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DTP student Ana Bermejo Martinez and fellow scientists from the University of East Anglia and Ocean University China have discovered that tiny marine bacteria can synthesise one of the Earth’s most abundant sulfur molecules, which affects atmospheric ...
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DTP student Rebecca Devine has recently been involved in a new publication in Chemical Science which discovered that a new antibiotic from bacteria found on an ant could beat MRSA. A new antibiotic, produced by bacteria found on a species of African ant, ...
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Scientists at the Quadram Institute (formerly Institute of Food Research) have uncovered a new mechanism linking bacteria in the gut to Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Dr Lindsay Hall and colleagues have found that certain bacteria release molecules ...
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The UK’s leading global position in bioscience innovation was further strengthened as the Science Minister officially launched biotech spin out Leaf Systems International Ltd on 23rd January 2017. Jo Johnson, Minister of State for Universities, Science, ...
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Scientists have developed a new improved method for capturing longer DNA fragments, doubling the size that can be analysed for novel genes which provide plants with immunity to disease. RenSeq (1) is a method to sequence Resistance (R) genes that confer ...
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This year The Norwich Research Park DTP had its first PIPS student complete his internship in the US. Tom Eyles spent three months from May to August 2016 as a Research and Development Intern with Genomatica, a leading bioengineering technology company ...
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