Earlham Institute

People working in #academic research face sector-specific pressures. These can include the demands of competition for funding, short-term contracts, and the need to relocate more than once to progress careers. At the 2025 BBSRC Connecting Research Culture conference, we brought together representatives from roles across the research environment - including PhD students, technicians, senior leaders and funders - to discuss key challenges in building and maintaining a positive and supportive #research #culture. https://okt.to/V1idJv

🆕 Applications have just opened for a new #PhDproject with Prof Anthony Hall at the Earlham Institute, with Dr Simon Griffiths at the John Innes Centre. Supported by the John Innes Foundation this PhD will investigate how #genetic variation influences the expression of “elite” #wheat #genes crucial for traits like stress tolerance, yield and flowering time. 🗓️ Apply by: 14 May 2025 🗓️ Start date: 01 October 2025 or 01 February 2026 ➡️ https://okt.to/p2mScw

🆕 A new study from scientists at the Earlham Institute and Rothamsted Research looking into large mobile fungal genome elements - Starships - has revealed how they jump between fungal species and influence their evolution. ✨ The research focused on similar species of Pezizomycotina fungus, which are found in the roots of plants like wheat, where they can both prevent and cause devastating #crop #diseases such as take-all. 🌱 Understanding how this happens could ultimately open the door to new strategies to boost #cropyield. Scientists used a technique to build a ‘tree of life’ that mapped out evolutionary relationships between different Starships for the first time using their entire sequences. 🧬 Lead author Dr Rowena Hill worked with Dr Mark McMullan and colleagues at the Earlham Institute. 💬 "Understanding more about fungal evolution is really important. Fungi provide vital support to plants that are so essential to our society and ecosystem. On the other hand, they can also cause some of the most devastating crop diseases, like take-all. "If we can understand how some fungi prevent disease, and others cause it – and how they can sometimes switch between these two modes - we could potentially engineer more sustainable agricultural techniques." 📃 Read more in the newsroom on our website: https://okt.to/kSUMoD #wheat #genomics #pathogen #cropscience

📣Applications are now open for a data-focussed PhD project in Anthony Hall's Group at the Earlham Institute! 🌾 Come and play a pivotal role in this exciting new project exploring how gene expression is controlled across the #wheat genome. 📚It's a great opportunity to study at the Norwich Research Park, surrounded by world-leading scientists and belonging to a cohort of fellow PhD students. 🧬 Our research is driven by collaborative science in an inclusive, supportive environment. 🌏 Open to international students and fully funded. #phdproject #phdopportunity #phdlife #bioscience #biotech #genomics #datascience #agritech #plantscience

🆕 Applications are now open for an exciting new PhD project looking at #engineering #soil bacteria. Funded by the John Innes Foundation and working with Dr Sarah Guiziou, this #PhDproject will engineer sentinel bacteria to enable the sensing and recording of multiple molecules important for plant growth, and characteristic of a healthy soil #microbiome. 🗓️ Apply by: 14 May 2025 🗓️ Start date: 01 October 25 / 01 February 26 ➡️ https://okt.to/umDU64

I had a fantastic time teaching at the University of Seville in Spain, teaching in the Master’s Program for Omics (Master Universitario en Análisis de Datos Ómicos y Biología de Sistemas) at Universidad de Sevilla A big thank you to Rebeca M. Mejias Estevez for inviting me back—it was a pleasure engaging with such curious and motivated students! We explored Biofoundries, engineering biology, career paths and DNA cloning with real scissors ✂️🧬 I also enjoyed teaching in Spanish—my native language! Outside of teaching, I enjoyed Seville’s sunshine and visited the beautiful Alcázar gardens. Earlham Institute

Thank you to Ramunas Stepanauskas, Director of the Single Cell Genomics Center and Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, for sharing your expertise at the Norwich Single-Cell and Spatial Symposium in June! The event is organized by Earlham Institute and University of East Anglia. #bigelowlab #science #education

🔎 Are you in the planning stages of a single-cell project? Our five-day #RNAseq course offers a comprehensive overview of #singlecell #genomics, with lectures and hands-on sessions in: ☑️ best practices for experimental design, ☑️ sample preparation, ☑️ automated laboratory workflows, ☑️ visualisations of single-cell #data. All sessions include best practice and tips learned first-hand by the Earlham Institute's scientists. 🗓️ 29 Sept - 03 October ➡️ https://okt.to/JpsMhd

💬 "We already have a good amount of data being uploaded, but - like any data-sharing platform - Grassroots will only get even better and more detailed as more people sign up and start uploading their trials and results." In a recent article, we spoke to Simon Tyrrell, the lead software engineer on Grassroots - an open-source platform enabling #crop #scientists to log, share, and reproduce detailed experiment datasets. 💻🌱📝 Services through Grassroots now include browsing field trial data, exploring pathogenomics, searching nucleotide or protein queries, and submitting images and data from the field. 📲 https://okt.to/Trxuf3 #AgriTech #CropScience #DataScience

Applications are open for a #ResearchAssistant to join the Single-cell and Spatial Genomics Team at the Earlham Institute. On a maternity cover basis, the role will work closely with #singlecell team and platform users to generate #sequencing libraries from single-cells. 🗓️ Apply by: 24 April 2025 📄 14 month contract length ➡️ https://okt.to/EHPl6s