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 ...
Read the storyDTP 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 ...
Read the storyFreya 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: ...
Read the storyOn 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 ...
Read the storyWith 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 ...
Read the storyLučka 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 ...
Read the storyScientists 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 ...
Read the storyThe 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, ...
Read the storyNicola 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’ ...
Read the storyErin 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 ...
Read the storyOn 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. ...
Read the storyWe 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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