Stephanie Little, a second-year John Innes Centre (JIC) student has just completed her PIPS with BugBiome, an agri-biotech start-up reinventing pest control based at Norwich Research Park. BugBiome is on a mission to create safer pest control solutions ...
Read the storyPhoebe Elvin completed her three-month professional internship for PhD students (PIPS) with Dyson Farming Research (DFR). Although her PhD focuses on wheat diseases, she chose to work on strawberries during her PIPS to broaden her plant science knowledge ...
Read the storyMiaomiao Gao, a third-year UEA student travelled to Kilifi County, Kenya to complete her PIPS with Pwani University, a public university, 60 km north of Mombassa. Pwani University’s mission is to provide quality education, training, research and innovation ...
Read the storyJosh Bennett, a John Innes Centre student completed his PIPS with Resurrect Bio, a plant biotech start-up, working on immune systems of economically important crop species, based in London. Resurrect Bio screens for pathogen suppressors of plant resistance ...
Read the storyKa Cheung, a second-year PhD student at University of East Anglia, spent her PIPS with the Centre for Microbial Interactions (CMI) based at the Quadram Institute (QIB). CMI is an affiliation of over 100 microbiology groups based on the Norwich Research ...
Read the storyElla Penny (JIC), Kestrel Maio (JIC) and Samuel Matthew Shackleton-Chavez (UEA) travelled to Rabat, Morocco for their PIPS where they contributed to the design and delivery of the AfriPlantSci 2025 international course on plant genome editing and scientific ...
Read the storyJoshua Horton, a Quadram Institute student reflects on his internship at science communication charity, the Royal Institution, and exploring different career options outside of academic research. “As I entered the third year of my PhD, I was feeling ...
Read the storyLukasz Sitko, an Earlham Institute based student recently returned from NASA Ames Research Centre where his 12-week internship focused on understanding the role of amyloids and ribozymes in the earliest forms of life. NASA’s Ames Research Center is ...
Read the storyJonathan Ashworth, a third-year student based at the Earlham Institute in Dr Jose De Vega’s group completed his PIPS with Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse, a museum of rural life and former workhouse in the Norfolk village of Gressenhall. Gressenhall ...
Read the storyAdvait Aithal, a third year PhD UEA Chemistry student completed his PIPS with Bactobio Ltd, a biotechnology company that uses synthetic biology, next-generation sequencing and machine learning to culture the 99% of microbes which have previously been ...
Read the storyJenna Conway, a UEA Pharmacy School student researching inhibiting bacterial cell division by controlling the essential FtsZ/SepH protein-protein interaction, completed her PIPS examining Motherhood within STEM. She wanted to create a space for mothers ...
Read the storyHarry Steward, a second-year student based at UEA completed his placement with CyanoCapture working on a project engineering fast-growing cyanobacteria for CO₂ fixation and expression of high value compounds. His duties and responsibilities included ...
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