News from the John Innes Centre

Dr Saskia Hogenhout has received an award for her outstanding research in the field of mycoplasmology. Saskia has been awarded the Derrick Edward Award for outstanding research by a young investigator by the International Organization for Mycoplasmology. Mycoplasmology is the study of a class of bacteria that are associated with a wide variety of diseases [...]

Professor Mervyn Bibb of the John Innes Centre has been awarded the Heatley Medal and Prize by the Biochemical Society. Professor Dale Sanders FRS, Director of the John Innes Centre, said: “The JIC is proud to congratulate Merv Bibb on his award of the Heatley Medal.  This prestigious award was last won by Nobel Laureate [...]

Dr Cristobal Uauy of the John Innes Centre has been awarded the “Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award” 2011 for Biology for his work in the research area of wheat genetics. The Bayer Foundation presents the Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award to talented young scientists in the early stages of their academic careers. The [...]

  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 [...]

Steve Reader, Germplasm and Field Trials Manager at the John Innes Centre, has received a Long Service Medal from the Royal Horticultural Society in recognition of his 40 year contribution to plant science and crop research. Steve started working at the Plant Breeding Institute, in Cambridge, on 23rd August 1971, as an Assistant Scientific Officer. [...]

Professor Cathie Martin’s contribution to science has been recognised by election to the membership of a leading European life sciences organisation, EMBO. Prof. Martin is one of 46 life scientists from 14 countries being acknowledged for their outstanding scientific contributions by awarding them life-long EMBO membership. Election to EMBO membership is recognition of the commitment [...]

Four postgraduate research students from the John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory have received awards from the John Innes Foundation for the excellence of their research and how well they communicate it. Lucy Foulston’s research on identifying and characterising the genes needed by a rare soil bacterium to make a potent antibiotic resulted in [...]

The John Innes Foundation has announced the winners of the 2010 John Innes Foundation Student Prizes for Excellence in Scientific Research and Excellence in Science Communication. Part of the John Innes Centre’s mission is to train scientists and to make our findings available to society, and these awards recognise achievements of PhD students in these [...]