My lab at the JIC is recruiting 3 PDRA:
🔹 Bioinformatics / AI
🔹 Molecular Biology / Genetics
🔹 Proteomics
Programme funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
📅 Closing date: 27 February
Apply via JIC website:
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/
Please share with outstanding candidates. 🙏
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09.11.2025 17:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thanks Catherine. Hope everything is going well with you!
23.10.2025 16:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Applications are now OPEN for the JIF Rotation PhD Programme
This prestigious 4-year #PhD programme trains graduate students in Plant and Microbial Sciences at the JIC, @thesainsburylab.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social.
🗓️ Closing date - 13 November 2025
www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...
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
The mystery of redundancy between homoeologs continues! Knocking out one homoeolog in wheat doesn't cause the other homoeologs to be upregulated... nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Great work led by @delfidorussen.bsky.social with @emilieknight.bsky.social @simmojsimmo.bsky.social
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team! They will work on homeolog-informed approaches to tackle cold tolerance in wheat @johninnescentre.bsky.social
Please find out more and apply here: jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?...
#plantsciences #plantscijobs
Many congratulations!! 🎉🎉
05.09.2025 13:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Many congratulations Yiliang! Very exciting news! 🎉🎉🎊
29.08.2025 11:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Congratulations Katie! Wonderful news 🎉🎉👏
29.08.2025 11:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Exciting times to be at @johninnescentre.bsky.social !
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Fantastic opportunity to start your independent career at the JIC here. Great startup package. Repost = nice. Thank you!!!
10.07.2025 06:52 — 👍 11 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0
Fig. 1. (short legend see paper for full description): Null met1-1 mutants cannot be produced by crossing TILLING lines with disruptions in the three MET1-1 homoeologues. (A) Evolutionary relationships between MET1 homologues in Arabidopsis (AtMET1), rice (OsMET1a and OsMET1b), and wheat (homoeologue groups TaMET1-1, TaMET1-2, and TaMET1-3). (B) Crossing schematic showing the generation of the hexaploid MET1-1 populations: the C0465×C0884 population (top) and the C0451×C2028×C1292 population (bottom). (C) Structure of the three MET1-1 homoeologues. Filled rectangles represent exons, open rectangles represent untranslated regions, and lines represent introns. Triangles indicate the positions of the premature termination codon mutations in the TILLING lines used to produce the two hexaploid F2 populations (C0465×C0884, orange; C0451×C2028×C1292, purple). The green box signifies the Bromo adjacent homology domain (BAH) and the blue box signifies the C-5 cytosine methyltransferase domain.
🌾🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌾🧬
📝 Varying gene dosage through mutating DNA methyltransferase 1-1 (MET1-1 ) in polyploid wheat generates quantitative changes to CG methylation without the lethal consequences observed in other crops - Burrows et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Interesting read, thanks @dinglab.bsky.social!
02.07.2025 17:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks to all authors @delfidorussen.bsky.social @emilieknight.bsky.social and @simmojsimmo.bsky.social and the many colleagues we've discussed this question with over the years!
02.07.2025 15:52 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In #wheat mutants we've long wondered if the expression of homoeologs is upregulated to compensate. Could that explain homoeolog redundancy?
Spoiler alert: no! Great summary by lead author @delfidorussen.bsky.social ⬇️ and the whole preprint is here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#plantscience
I enjoyed your piece! Not sure I'll take up work on Ceratopteris yet.... I'll stick to wheat for now 😀
24.06.2025 11:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wonderful to see such a range of plant model organisms featured in @cp-devcell.bsky.social. From crops like wheat and maize all the way through to liverworts, algae & ferns!🌾🌿🌽🥬🦠
Many opinions including why I propose using wheat as a model to investigate polyploidy: doi.org/10.1016/j.de...
It's an honour to be shortlisted for the Falling Walls Foundation Science Breakthrough of the Year 2025 for our work on epigenetics in crop breeding. I'm excited to see where this work leads us!
Here we describe our first steps into epigenetic mutants in wheat doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
EVENT - “Fundamental Biology of Legume Crops” Workshop
Discuss the latest research in genomics, metabolomics, biotic interactions and plant development.
💻 Application deadline: 16 July 2025
🗓️ 3 - 4 November 2025
📍The John Innes Centre, NR4 7UH
Find out more and apply: okt.to/fgZCWB
Thanks for sharing Lisa. It's always interesting to see how projects deviate over time from the original idea, and great that your 'failed' experiment has been so impactful!
11.06.2025 12:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you to all co-authors for a great collaboration @glombikm.bsky.social Ramesh Arunkumar, Sam Burrows, Sophie Mogg and Xiaoming Wang!
30.05.2025 08:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our latest work found that homoeolog expression bias is inherited for ~26% of triads in wheat. Intriguingly we found that new patterns of homoeolog expression bias are more frequent when one of the parents is a landrace.
Read more in Genome Biology: rdcu.be/eokf2
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
Looking for the direct target genes of a transcription factor in #wheat? Our protocol uses protoplasts, skipping transgenic plants to save months!
Great step by step protocol @emilieknight.bsky.social! Read more below ⬇️ Thanks to all contributors!
#plantscience @johninnescentre.bsky.social
Congratulations @andytruman4.bsky.social and team! 🎉 Very interesting to see the work go from genetic prediction all the way to ecological role.
21.05.2025 16:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It was a pleasure to host @ismaelgf.bsky.social for 3 months @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Looking forward to continuing our collaboration with @irnasa.bsky.social on transcriptomic responses to water deficit in wheat 💦🍞🌾
07.05.2025 08:49 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A picture showing the attendees of the Monogram2025 conference in Aberystwyth.
A picture of Dr Aiswarya Girija (Ash) receiving a thank you for her work coordinating the organisation if Monogram2025.
A picture showing the people who helped organise Monogram2025.
A picture revealing that Monogram2026 will be hosted by the NIAB institute in Cambridge.
#Monogram2025 has finished. It was a fantastic conference with outstanding speakers and great interactions. I am very grateful to the organisers for their hard work!! (Especially Ash!)
Looking forward to next year's conference hosted by NIAB.
@monogram-uk.bsky.social
@niab-uk.bsky.social
Totally agree, what a great conference and well organised by the @ibers.bsky.social team.
10.04.2025 12:53 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to Isabel Faci @johninnescentre.bsky.social winner of the #Monogram2025 ECR excellence award! Fascinating talk on how decoupling environmental signals can induce aerial branching in wheat!
10.04.2025 10:58 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Congratulations to @katielong.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social winner of the #Monogram2025 ECR excellence award! Fabulous talk on the intricate patterns of gene expression in wheat spikes!
10.04.2025 10:40 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1