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🗓️ DEADLINE: 18 October 2026
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@johninnescentre.bsky.social@johninnescentre.bsky.socialBLOG - A Year in Industry – gaining skills and confidence
From genetic technologies to volunteering at the Microbe Zoo, discover Abigail Man’s experience during her Year in Industry placement at our institute.
@johninnescentre.bsky.socialThe Biofortification Hub is holding a funding call for small Business Interaction Vouchers (BIVs).
⏰ DEADLINE - 16 October 2026 (18:00 GMT)
🗣️ Feedback to applicants - 14 December 2026
💻 Find out more and apply: https://okt.to/2vg3oQ
@johninnescentre.bsky.socialPRESS RELEASE - Can this biotech innovation halt the destructive march of a cereal killer? 🌾🦠 A UK-led research collaboration has taken a significant step in the global effort to protect crops from the devastating wheat fungus pathogen
@johninnescentre.bsky.social@The Sainsbury Laboratory @Hassan Salem @Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
@johninnescentre.bsky.socialNow, new research has shown how in tortoise beetles this protein has been co-opted as a building material to house symbiotic bacteria.
@johninnescentre.bsky.socialNEWS - Beetles build with a yellow pigment gene 🪲 More than 80 years ago, scientists discovered that differences in yellow pigmentation were critical to courtship success and failure for fruit flies. 🧵
@johninnescentre.bsky.socialAdvances #39, Summer 2026 issue is now online! 🌱 🍅
From Vitamin D boosted tomatoes, to plant factories creating complex molecules for vaccines, read the latest edition of Advances, our bi-annual science magazine:
@johninnescentre.bsky.socialVACANCY - We’re looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the @Barrie Wilkinson Group, in collab with the @Matt Hutchings lab, on a project: Global activation of silent and cryptic biosynthetic pathways in Streptomyces species.
Deadline - 26 October 2026
Contract - 36 months, full-time
@nickdesnoyer.bsky.socialReposted by @johninnescentre.bsky.socialArabidopsis has never looked so good.
Micro-rose imaged under the SEM by staff & students @johninnescentre.bsky.social bioimaging facility.
Mag 15x. Image ~8mm. Left: false-colored.
@johninnescentre.bsky.socialThe Biofortification Hub is holding a funding call for small Business Interaction Vouchers (BIVs).
⏰ DEADLINE - 16 October 2026 (18:00 GMT)
🗣️ Feedback to applicants - 14 December 2026
💻 Find out more and apply: https://okt.to/r4cpTk
@johninnescentre.bsky.socialApplications are now OPEN for our Year in Industry programme.
🗓️ DEADLINE: 18 October 2026
@johninnescentre.bsky.socialBLOG - A Year in Industry – gaining skills and confidence
From genetic technologies to volunteering at the Microbe Zoo, discover Abigail Man’s experience during her Year in Industry placement at our institute.
@johninnescentre.bsky.socialPRESS RELEASE - Can this biotech innovation halt the destructive march of a cereal killer? 🌾🦠 A UK-led research collaboration has taken a significant step in the global effort to protect crops from the devastating wheat fungus pathogen
@quadraminstitute.bsky.socialReposted by @johninnescentre.bsky.socialWell done to our football team who recently came in third place at the Norwich Research Park's 5-a-side tournament 🥉
We faced tough opposition from teams across the research park, including @earlhaminst.bsky.social, @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @biouea.bsky.social
@aabiologists.bsky.socialReposted by @johninnescentre.bsky.social🏅 2026 AAB President's Medallist 🏅
Finally, our inaugural Sustainable Futures Medal is awarded to Noam Chayut (John Innes Centre) for building a national resource into a international research genebank - maximising impact for global crop improvement.
@johninnescentre.bsky.socialWishing you all the best @haopengyu.bsky.social 👋
@johninnescentre.bsky.socialOur Innes lecture 2026 recording is now live! 🥔🎥
Missed this year’s lecture - “The Potato: between science and peasant knowledge” from our excellent speaker Prof. Rebecca Earle, @The University of Warwick?
Watch the Innes lecture 2026 on our Youtube channel now: https://okt.to/icKgj0
@johninnescentre.bsky.socialVACANCY - We have a unique opportunity for a John Innes Foundation (JIF) Communications and Engagement Intern to join our team and help inspire young future scientists
Deadline - 30 September 2026
Contract - 12 months, full-time
@johninnescentre.bsky.socialThe Archives Revealed programme is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Pilgrim Trust, The Wolfson Foundation and The National Archives, UK.