News from the John Innes Centre

Samantha Fox of the John Innes Centre blogs about the recent UK plant Systems Biology Workshop that she organised for the UK Systems Biology community The UK Plant Systems Biology Workshop took place on 20th April 2012 at the John Innes Centre. It brought together the growing community of UK systems biology researchers who use [...]

The rapidly growing field of systems biology uses a highly integrative approach that combines molecular, genetic, imaging, population, ecological and computational approaches to further our understanding of complex biological systems. The John Innes Centre is hosting an annual meeting, on Friday April 20th, that is bringing together established groups of UK scientists for a series [...]

The John Innes Centre is leading a group of research institutes on the Norwich Research Park (NRP) that are to receive almost £4million of new funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to support the training of the next generation of scientists. The investment will fund 39 PhD students through a Doctoral [...]

PhD students Stuart King and Simon Lloyd, who won the UEA Eureka Business Plan competition, have returned from an internship at Hotel Chocolat’s base in St Lucia with a greater perspective on the world of business. They are now developing their business idea, based around protecting crops from disease. The prize also included start-up support, [...]

A team of students from the John Innes Centre are through to the final of a national business plan competition, having won through from their regional heat. The Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES) is an annual business plan competition for PhD students and early career postdocs. Now in its 16th year, the highly successful programme [...]

  PhD student Ruth Bryant was awarded third prize in a poster competition at the 2011 CropWorld Global Congress. The conference is an international platform to debate and discuss the critical issues surrounding crop production industry. It brings together colleagues from government, the farming community, scientists, the private sector and strategists from the public sector [...]

Applications have now closed for the International Undergraduate Summer Research Training Programme. The 8 week programme is co-hosted by The John Innes Centre, The Sainsbury Laboratory and The Genome Analysis Centre  and provides UK and non-UK students with the unique opportunity to spend the summer of 2012 on the Norwich campus. Students are housed together [...]

Sixteen of Norfolk’s most talented budding scientists recently took the opportunity of getting inside the science on the Norwich Research Park by attending a series of talks and activities with some of the leading researchers working on the park.  The ‘Inside Science’ scheme, now in its 5th year, invited applications from the most gifted and [...]