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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 1d

As well as enjoying the usual opportunity to engage with each other and our Communications and KEC team, this time our staff and students also had the chance to taste test exclusive hummus samples made by Beantastic Hummus.

Yum! 🤤 @tastebudsco.bsky.social

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 1d

CAKE Club: Autumn plant swap (and hummus tasting!) 🪴🫘

Today was the autumn edition of our bi-annual #plant swap: a chance for colleagues across the JIC to come together, connect and swap/rehome plants and seeds over tea, coffee and…you guessed it, cake! 🍰

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 1d

Ever wondered why bumbling #bees prefer yellow flowers to red? Or how disease-causing #bacteria can spread between related plants? 💐🦠

Catch up on a snapshot of some of our recent research featured in scientific journals.

Read more in our latest edition of Advances: okt.to/DZjEoz

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 1d

Read about Katie and Lewis, two T level students from University Technical College Norfolk (UTCN), and their experience at the JIC:

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 1d

This week is #TLevelsWeek! 🥼🧪

We're passionate about inspiring the next generation of scientists and proudly hosted our first two #TLevel students in 2025.

As a founding Technician Commitment signatory, we believe #TLevels are important for securing the future of technical skills in the UK

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 1d

New pre-print from the team!

The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses.

Have a read!

#PlantScience
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 1d

Primary metabolism underpins the execution of immune responses in different tissues of the same plant https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.11.681807v1

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 2d

Check our blog from last year showcasing the stories of scientists whose #Neurodivergent identities helped shape their groundbreaking work ⬇️

www.jic.ac.uk/blog/celebra...

Celebrating Neurodiversity in science: honouring trailblazers | John Innes Centre

“Neurodiversity is an important part of organisations, teams and society, and without people that think differently we wouldn’t be as creative, efficient or strategic.” Professor Graham Moore FRS…

www.jic.ac.uk

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 2d

This #ADHDAwarenessMonth focuses on the many faces of #ADHD 👫🧠

Diverse cognitive styles, including those associated with ADHD, can lead to innovative problem-solving and unique insights, essential for tackling complex challenges in plant and microbial research 🌱🦠

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Dr Michael Stephenson @stephensomycin.bsky.social · 5d

Delighted to share my latest paper with
Anne Osbourn & Charlotte Owen 👉 rdcu.be/eJ27x Where we have been unveiling plants' chemical secrets without ever having to handle the plants @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social (Chemistry) & @johninnescentre.bsky.social
Research. #NorwichScience 🌱⚗️⌬

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 3d

We have a project available for 2026 NRP Doctoral Training Partnership entry (i.e. PhD studentship opportunity!)

How do cells communicate when it's hot?

Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out

biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...

How do cells communicate when it’s hot? (FAULKNER_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership

Plant cells are connected to their neighbours via ‘tubes’ called plasmodesmata, creating an interconnected cytoplasm that joins cells within and between tissues and organs.

biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk

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Nikolai Adamski @nikolaiadamski.bsky.social · 3d

New #PhD opportunity in the Uauy lab @johninnescentre.bsky.social.
Can we increase grain number in wheat by studying genes controlling organ identity?

#wheat #spikelet #development
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/ide...

Identity matters: understanding spike architecture to increase grain number in wheat (UAUY_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership

Wheat provides 20% of the calories and protein consumed by humans. The world population will reach 9 billion by 2050, which requires food production to more than double. Although plant breeding has…

biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk

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Mark McMullan @mcmullan0.bsky.social · 2d

PhD studentship
Come help us understand the wheat rhizosphere at the Earlham Institute 🦠

Working at the interface of fungal antagonists & pathogens (@rowenahill.bsky.social @neilhall.bsky.social ), host genetic diversity (Simon Griffiths -JIC) and bacterial community diversity (Jacob Malone -JIC)

Combatting wheat take-all disease with in-field and synthetic microbial communities

www.earlham.ac.uk

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Susan Schlimpert @s-lab.bsky.social · 2d

We have a PhD opportunity available in our group @johninnescentre.bsky.social through the NRP Doctoral Training Partnership. Help us uncover the Hidden Diversity of Bacterial NLRs.

Start date: October 2026. For more information and how to apply👉 biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/bey...

Beyond Immunity: Uncovering the Hidden Diversity of Bacterial NLRs (SCHLIMPERT_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership

Join us in exploring the hidden functions of ancient immune proteins in bacteria. Bacteria, like plants and animals, have evolved sophisticated systems to detect and respond to threats.

biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk

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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 6d

📣 Applications are now OPEN for the John Innes Foundation Rotation PhD Programme

This 4-year #PhD programme trains graduate students in Plant & Microbial Sciences at The Sainsbury Laboratory, @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social

🗓️ Apply before 13 Nov '25 ➡️ okt.to/qjy60T

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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 5d

We're so proud of @dianagdlc.bsky.social and @mpcontreras.bsky.social, joint winners of the 2024 John Innes Foundation prize for Excellence in Scientific Research 🎉

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 6d

BLOG - A look back at our 2024 Annual Science Meeting awards

This week is our JIC/TSL Annual Science Meeting, a yearly conference for staff and students. Each year, awards are given to those who go above and beyond - we've taken a look back at last year’s winners 🏆

www.jic.ac.uk/blog/a-look-...

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BRiC ISP @bric-isp.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations to our @bric-isp.bsky.social Genius of the Month, Wenqing Sun. For outstanding scientific achievements investigating functional RNA secondary structure motifs, including a publication in Nature Machine Intelligence. @yiliangding.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social

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Earlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · 6d

It was great to join colleagues across the Earlham Institute, @thesainsburylab.bsky.social, and @johninnescentre.bsky.social for the NBI Accessible Science Talks, bringing together scientific and support staff for a day of accessible science talks!

#NBIAST2025 #sciencetalks

Senior Research Assistant Ashleigh Lister presents her work in spatial transcriptomics

Dr Darren Heavens presents insights from his career in genomics and sequencing

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 6d

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 6d

BLOG - A look back at our 2024 Annual Science Meeting awards

This week is our JIC/TSL Annual Science Meeting, a yearly conference for staff and students. Each year, awards are given to those who go above and beyond - we've taken a look back at last year’s winners 🏆

www.jic.ac.uk/blog/a-look-...

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Earlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · 6d

Applications are now open for the 2026 John Innes Foundation Rotation #PhD programme - bringing together three world-class institutes with expertise in #plant, #microbial, and #datascience at the Earlham Institute, @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @thesainsburylab.bsky.social.

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John Innes Foundation Rotation PhD Programme

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 7d

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...

Rotation biology PhDs | John Innes Centre

Prestigious studentships, for entry in October 2022, this multi-disciplinary PhD programme includes; plant science, microbiology, biological chemistry, applied mathematics…

www.jic.ac.uk

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Molecular Biosystems Conference @molbiosystems.bsky.social · 7d

🌟 Our keynote speakers inspired us!

We presented the Molecular Biosystems Award to Prof. Caroline Dean (@johninnescentre.bsky.social), for her "significant contributions to the understanding of gene regulation in eukaryotes".

Prof. Dean delivered an @embo.org Keynote Lecture.

Prof. Dean receives the Molecular Biosystems Award

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Aleksander Szczurek @aleksszczurek.bsky.social · 7d

If you are a computational biologist come, apply and join Howard & Klose lab in a joint Norwich-Oxford collaboration on chromatin dynamics!

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 9d

VACANCY - We have an opportunity for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Howard Group, working to develop computational models of epigenetic dynamics in the Polycomb system.

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

Closing date - 9 November 2025
Salary - £37,500 - £45,350
Contract - 36 months, full-time

Postdoctoral Researcher (Howard Group) | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Howard Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Computational and Systems Biology.

www.jic.ac.uk

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 7d

#Rice growing in the Cambridgeshire fens or on the ocean? 🍚🌊

Catch up on @itvanglia.bsky.social‘s fascinating feature on this #agricultural innovation, featuring our own Professor Steve Penfield 📺: www.itv.com/watch/news/u...

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 8d

👥🌈 Learn about the various research platforms and inclusivity, diversity and equality groups

#NBIAST2025

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