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Huge congratulations to Susan Duncan of @johninnescentre.bsky.social, on completing the RMS Diploma - a flexible, portfolio-based qualification for those working in #microscopy or #FlowCytometry.

Read more: www.rms.org.uk/resource/sus...

Really enjoyed sharing progress on my PhD project today and the feedback and interesting discussions it provoked!

Thank you to the organisers of DSW Day for putting together a great event! ☺️🌾
@dsw-isp.bsky.social

Good nutrition underpins healthier populations, stronger educational outcomes & greater economic prosperity, helping to promote peace and stability.
The UK’s world-leading science & research community is driving innovation to tackle malnutrition.
#BritishScienceWeek @johninnescentre.bsky.social

BLOG - There is never a right time — how institutional support makes academic careers possible

For #IWD2026, Dr Pirita Paajanen, senior scientist, reflects on the support she has received to advance her career, whilst balancing family life

www.jic.ac.uk/blog/there-i...

@leadersplus.bsky.social

New article- we developed a strategy to fortify salads with Vitamin B12 in indoor farms. Sorry, no chronobiology in this one! A wonderful collaboration between @johninnescentre.bsky.social @quadraminstitute.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social and LettUs Grow www.nature.com/articles/s42...

THIS WEEK!!! @johninnescentre.bsky.social @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social

The partnership between the JIC, @quadraminstitute.bsky.social, University of Bristol and Lettus Grow harnessed the latest aeroponic techniques to successfully deliver the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of Vitamin B12 within a 15-gram portion of pea shoots.

@nature.com @antdodd.bsky.social

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PRESS RELEASE - Salad packs a healthy punch to meet a growing Vitamin B12 need 🌱🫛

A pioneering research-industry partnership has used advances in indoor farming technology to grow pea shoots fortified with #VitB12

www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...

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📢 New plant science textbook

Staff and alumni from our institute and @thesainsburylab.bsky.social have recently published Essential Plant Biology, a new textbook presenting current and comprehensive knowledge of plant biology 🌱

PRESS RELEASE - Sugar beet, oilseed rape, tomatoes and dandelions: precision breeding projects win major funding to support UK agriculture

Alongside our industrial and academic partners, we have been awarded UK Government funding to deliver four ambitious projects: www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...

Innovations in spatial imaging could unlock higher wheat yields | John Innes Centre Researchers at the John Innes Centre and the Earlham Institute are pioneering powerful single-cell visualisation techniques that could unlock higher yields of global wheat…

Read the paper here 👇 academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Read the news story 👇
www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...

We made the front cover of @theplantcell.bsky.social!

Huge congratulations to co-first authors @katielong.bsky.social and Ashleigh Lister, corresponding author @cristobaluauy.bsky.social and everyone at JIC, @earlhaminst.bsky.social and @vizgen.bsky.social who collaborated on this exciting work 👏

At #PMQs today I pressed the Prime Minister to secure a carve out for precision breeding in future EU negotiations.

South Norfolk leads the way, from the @earlhaminst.bsky.social to the @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Backing British science means backing our food future.

Farming Today - 05/02/26 EFRA Committee report on EU/UK agri-food trade deal, seed science, starting out in agriculture - BBC Sounds MPs call for a 'national conversation' on EU/UK agri-food trade agreement.

Catch up on the interview with JIC's Professor Steve Penfield, and Dr Iain Macaulay and Dr Andrew Goldson from Earlham Institute, from 03.08.

NEWS: Mum Knows Best – how maternal messages prime seeds for success

🧵 Mothers often guide offspring through the risky stages of early development. This is true for plants too, according to new research from our researchers and colleagues @earlhaminst.bsky.social: www.jic.ac.uk/news/mum-kno... 🌱

Sugar beet, oilseed rape, tomatoes and dandelions: four precision breeding projects win major funding to support UK agriculture | John Innes Centre The John Innes Centre and its industrial and academic partners have been awarded UK Government funding to help deliver four ambitious projects that unleash the potential of precision breeding…

🌱 Since the Precision Breeding Act, the UK Government has awarded funding for many interesting projects using #GenomeEditing, important for farmers and sustainable agriculture.
👇 Check out the four new projects at the @johninnescentre.bsky.social
www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...

We can’t wait to meet you! 👋

Be sure to come by and see the JIC stand on Thursday 19th February to learn all about peas too 🫛

@quadraminstitute.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

Congratulations to Tom Lawrenson, winner of the prestigious Genius of the Month award for being an engaging spokesperson. Presenting the breadth of @johninnescentre.bsky.social Precision Breeding outside of his own research area including delivering key organisational messages.

CEPAMS Research Unravels Key Mechanism Governing Plant Stem Cell Activity - CEPAMS Left: the shoot apex of an Arabidopsis thaliana plant.Right: the shoot apical meristem. Actively dividing stem cells are shown in green, and the cell walls are labelled in magenta.

The work, recently published in the journal @science.org, was led by @weibingyang.bsky.social, with key contributions on RNA structure and localisation from @yiliangding.bsky.social: www.cepams.org/cepams-resea...

NEWS - New group leader outlines big, broad, shared vision

Dr Chris Whitewoods, a specialist in leaf development, will return to our institute as a tenure track group leader in 2026 🌱👉 www.jic.ac.uk/news/new-gro...

New collaborative study led by @ifacisabel.bsky.social and @cristobaluauy.bsky.social, where we developed a new heating system to simulate warmer climates during field trials. This was great fun- check out the summary thread by Isabel Faci, below! @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Innovations in spatial imaging could unlock higher wheat yields Scientists at the Earlham Institute and the John Innes Centre are pioneering powerful single-cell visualisation techniques that could unlock higher yields of global wheat.

Published in @theplantcell.bsky.social scientists at Earlham Institute and @johninnescentre.bsky.social use #spatial transcriptomics to reveal gene expression patterns in developing #wheat inflorescences.

Read more 👉 buff.ly/a5nWTXx

#PlantSciences #Genomics

She reflects on the value of collaboration in achieving strategic aims, and how this event is vital in bringing the wheat research community together: www.jic.ac.uk/blog/from-ce...

@earlhaminst.bsky.social @quadraminstitute.bsky.social 🌾

Network analysis of flowering time genes suggests regulatory changes among SOC1 orthologues in response to cold in Brassica napus Flowering plants respond to multiple environmental and endogenous cues to determine the timing of their transition from the vegetative to floral state. Most of our knowledge of the gene regulatory net...

Ending the year on a high point. 3 new PhDs made - they have all been amazing students and I am so proud! Gurpinder even managed to release his lovely story about the effect of cold on SOC1 and gene regulatory networks :)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

AI RNA Design for Developing Antiviral Solutions in Sugar Beet (Plant BioDesign JIC project) at University of York on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - AI RNA Design for Developing Antiviral Solutions in Sugar Beet (Plant BioDesign JIC project) at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com

New PhD opportunity available in my lab, in collaboration with Betty Chung (Cambridge), focusing on plant RNA viruses and AI-driven design. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Postdoctoral Researcher (Dr Miguel Montez) | John Innes Centre An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Wellcome Trust project led by Dr Miguel Montez and hosted within the Dodd Group at the John Innes Centre.

📣 Looking for a 3-Year Postdoc @johninnescentre.bsky.social to join my Wellcome project.

This is a highly interdisciplinary project that explores chromatin dynamics in 🌱 plant responses across timescales, from circadian rhythms to seasonal changes

📅 Closes on 10 Dec.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36...

Molecular Biosystems Conference Youtube Home Page for the Molecular Biosystems Conference (molbiosystems.com), the premier Latin American meeting on gene regulation.

The #MBioSys25 keynote lectures by Prof Caroline Dean (@johninnescentre.bsky.social) and Prof @elowitzlab.bsky.social (Caltech) are now online!

Watch (or revisit!) these two inspiring talks on gene regulation & functional genomics, available for free on our channel

www.youtube.com/@MolecularBi...

Rather than a static database, we've built an AI plant scientist that could continuously learn new knowledge😃Hope it will help the plant science community!@haopengyu.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @universityofexeter.bsky.social #AIscientist

Team JIC are having a cracking time in the “Future of Farm and Agriculture” @farmersweeklyuk.bsky.social zone at New Scientist Live @newscientist.com this weekend 🌟🌾

We’re here on Monday too - come along and see stomata down a microscope and our wonderful wheat varieties!!

@dsw-isp.bsky.social

Delighted to be selected for the Carlotta Award celebrating female wheat researchers 🎉
Thank you to the committee - it was lovely to meet you in Bari!

I am sure this award will continue to promote women's contributions to wheat research under the stewardship of @wheatinitiative.bsky.social