John Innes Centre

Leaders of UK institutions pioneering research into nutrition urge the Government to sustain investment in their work.
 
Malnutrition drives instability, migration, & conflict.
 
Solutions to it deliver benefits here & abroad.
 
#BritishScienceWeek @theguardian.com 
https://bit.ly/4rgLKCO

Excited to collaborate with @hassansalem.bsky.social and @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social on this new Postdoc opportunity!

If you're interested in the developmental biology of symbiosis, apply and join us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @thesainsburylab.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

Inspired by @hassansalem.bsky.social’s CMI Conference @norwichmicro.bsky.social talk? Or perhaps simply excited to get involved in such fascinating research? 🌱🦠

Apply to join the Salem Group as a Postdoctoral Researcher today: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Luisa Jabbur describes how cyanobacteria sense seasonal changes #CMINorwich26 @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Mark Webber opens the Centre for Microbial Interactions Annual Conference at Norwich Research Park @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @quadraminstitute.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social #CMINorwich26

The appointed Postdoctoral Researcher will work in collaboration with the groups of @berasymbionts.bsky.social and @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social at The Sainsbury Laboratory ⬇️

We’re thrilled to be a part of the first @norwichmicro.bsky.social conference! 🙌🦠

An exciting opportunity for researchers from across Norwich Research Park to connect, collaborate and showcase the diverse science and expertise gathered here

Check out this exciting postdoc opportunity at @johninnescentre.bsky.social to work with the amazing @hassansalem.bsky.social and @berasymbionts.bsky.social on the developmental and molecular basis of insect–microbe symbiosis.

I’m excited to be part of this collaborative project!

Join @berasymbionts.bsky.social , @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and us for a postdoc on the remarkable developmental biology of symbiosis!

Applications are due March 25th 🪲🦠

@johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

VACANCY - We’re searching for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the newly appointed group of Dr @hassansalem.bsky.social, to explore the developmental biology of host-microbe symbiosis

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Deadline - 25 March 2026
Salary - £37,500 - £45,350
Contract - 3 years, full-time

Programme director Angie Burnett with Earlham Biofoundry Manager Carolina Grandellis

ARIA Technical Specialist Fabrizio Ticchiarelli-Marjot with Lucy Heap from the Cai Lab at Manchester Institute for Biotechnology.

Dr Grandellis demonstrates automation platforms in the Earlham Biofoundry

Last week we were delighted to welcome the @aria-research.bsky.social #Synthetic #Plants team to the Earlham Institute and @johninnescentre.bsky.social to discuss the latest on our ARIA-funded project with @uommib.bsky.social, engineering synthetic plant chromosomes (synPACs).

VACANCY - We're looking for a Research Assistant to join the Saunders group to lead further development/deployment of our award-winning Mobile And Real-time PLant disEase (MARPLE) diagnostics platform

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Deadline - 17 March 2026
Salary - £28,890 - £32,100
Contract - 12 months, Full-time

You can visit our website now to find out more about how our collections could support your group project:

www.jic.ac.uk/research-imp...

At the JIC, we have a strong focus on utilising the power of plants to benefit society. And after learning about the work at the John Innes Centre, our visitors looked at books on #grasses, #wildflowers, #fungi, #insects and the local landscape.

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Today is #WorldWildlifeDay 🌺 🐼

This year’s #WWD2026 theme is conserving medicinal and aromatic plants. Recently, we welcomed members of Wild Youth Action (Norfolk Wildlife Trust) who were interested in exploring how our rare book collections linked to nature and biodiversity in Norfolk

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We’re so excited to be hosting the Norfolk Science Teaching Conference today ✏️🧪

An excellent opportunity to bring together and inspire #STEMM #science educators with many useful resources, talks and workshops

What a beautiful day for this year's Norfolk Science Teaching Conference.

Welcoming teachers from across Norfolk to a unique conference that aims to enhance and inspire science teaching.

@johninnescentre.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

On the left a photo of growing leafy greens, on the right a woman in a shop with a basket of vegetables. In the middle there is the text "Proof of Concept Awards Funding, Research projects on: Biofortification of food, feed and fodder, Consumer science, social and policy aspects of crop and food biofortification." Deadline: 24 April 2026

📣 The #BiofortificationHub has funding to pump-prime collaborative projects on:

🌱 Biofortification of food, feed & fodder
🛒 Consumer science, social and policy aspects of crop and food biofortification.

Apply by 25 April 2026
➡️ buff.ly/LYaDLG8

@johninnescentre.bsky.social

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

Ella, Kestrel and Matthew support AfriPlantSci 2025 | Doctoral Training Partnership Ella Penny (JIC), Kestrel Maio (JIC) and Samuel Matthew Shackleton-Chavez (UEA) travelled to Rabat, Morocco for their PIPS where they contributed to the design and delivery of the AfriPlantSci 2025…

Ella Penny, Kestrel Maio and Samuel Matthew Shackleton-Chavez supported AfriPlantSci 2025 for their PIPS. Read about their incredible experiences here ⬇️
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/student-stor...

#amazingplacements #pips #PhD @johninnescentre.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

Dr Simon Griffiths, Group Leader and Delivering Sustainable Wheat Programme Lead, wrapping up the DSW annual meeting for 2026

Thanks to everyone who joined us at the @dsw-isp.bsky.social annual meeting today! From tackling wheat diseases to investigating the building blocks of plant growth, the event has been full of engaging discussion. To find out more about Delivering Sustainable Wheat, visit jic.link/DSW

If you are part of the wheat research community and want to share your ideas, please get in touch and fill in this survey here: wheat-tools.jic.ac.uk 🌾

Miguel Gonzalez Sanchez, JIC Research Software Engineer, presenting a poster at the DSW annual meeting

JIC Head of Informatics, Dr Burkhard Steuernagel, presenting his talk at the DSW annual meeting

Our Institute Strategic Programmes have already delivered impactful web services for the wheat community: wheatresearch.ac.uk/resources/
JIC Head of Informatics, Dr Burkhard Steuernagel, has opened discussion at the @dsw-isp.bsky.social annual meeting about ways to update, improve and add to them 👇

Identifying direct TARGETs of transcription factors in wheat Transcription factors (TFs) are key regulators of expression of numerous genes. In wheat, many gene networks remain unresolved with the identification of TF target genes being p...

Sharing new methodologies and knowledge with the community is what this meeting is all about! You can read about Emilie’s method here: dx.doi.org/10.17504/pro...

Emilie Knight, research assistant, presenting her work on a promising protoplast-based method at the DSW annual meeting

Transformed wheat protoplasts expressing GFP. The lines are from the hemacytometer that the cells are in suspension on.

We’re back at the @dsw-isp.bsky.social annual meeting this afternoon where @emilieknight.bsky.social is presenting a promising protoplast-based method to decipher gene networks in wheat. Protoplasts are living plant, bacterial, or fungal cells that have had their rigid outer cell walls removed.

Rapid response launched to tackle new yellow rust strains threatening UK wheat | John Innes Centre The UK’s wheat is under threat from a newly identified strain of the yellow rust pathogen, prompting an urgent mobilisation of research institutes to protect harvests.

More than 50% of the UK’s wheat is now vulnerable to infection from the fungal pathogen because of a newly identified strain, prompting an urgent mobilisation of research institutes to protect harvests. Read more: www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...

Wheat rust on a leaf

Professor Diane Saunders presenting her work on wheat rust at the DSW annual meeting

Professor Diane Saunders closed today’s second @dsw-isp.bsky.social session about yellow rust and the breakdown of a key resistance gene (Yr15). Yellow rust is a wheat disease that poses a major threat to global wheat production and food security.

Delivering Sustainable Wheat The Delivering Sustainable Wheat Institute Strategic Programme aims to develop wheat germplasm containing the next generation of key traits.

Today we're excited to join the Delivering Sustainable Wheat Conference - a @ukri.org cross-institute programme bringing together expertise of 11 organisations and universities - including Earlham Institute, @johninnescentre.bsky.social, @quadraminstitute.bsky.social and @rothamsted.bsky.social.

Research Genetics and genomics for wheat improvement Our lab aims to understand gene function in wheat, with a view to improving the nutritional value of the grain. This goal is complicated by the polyploid…

Learn more about her work and the Borrill lab here: borrilllab.com/research/