Sarah Domoney attended our Year 10 Science Camp in 2015 and is now working towards a PhD at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. Here we ask her about her experience at the John Innes Centre and ...

We are seeking to appoint an outstanding Chair to lead our Board of Trustees at a pivotal moment in the Institute’s history. Working closely with the Director, Board of Trustees and Executive Team, ...

Funded by the EPSRC EDI Hub+, two new comprehensive online Equality, Diversity and Inclusion training courses have been developed in collaboration with Newcastle University, the Quadram Institute, the ...

An opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the newly appointed group of Dr Hassan Salem at the John Innes Centre in the Department of Molecular Microbiology. This post is funded ...

The John Innes Centre (JIC) and The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) are delighted to announce a £1.6 million investment from the Wolfson Foundation, supporting a next-generation glasshouse, insectary, and ...

Matt’s group works on the specialised metabolites made by Streptomyces species and closely related actinomycete bacteria, which include more than half of all known antibiotics. They are particularly ...

The first marketing notice for a precision bred tomato in England has now been approved, moving the biofortified ‘Sunshine’ tomato developed at the John Innes Centre closer to commercialisation. This ...

Starch is a key plant carbohydrate, not only in respect to plant growth, but also in providing essential calories for human consumption worldwide. Numerous major crop species have been bred to have a ...

Tomatoes gene-edited to produce vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, could be a simple and sustainable innovation to address a global health problem. Researchers used gene editing to turn off a specific ...

Michael’s research focuses on the molecular machines that express photosynthetic genes. Photosynthesis produces oxygen and energy that sustains much of life on earth. In plants it occurs within ...

Development of our exciting, ground-breaking plant and microbial science and innovation hub can go ahead with confirmation of funding announced today. The transformational investment will fund new ...

More than 80 years ago scientists discovered that differences in yellow pigmentation were critical to courtship success and failure for fruit flies. It was one of the first demonstrations linking ...