NATIONAL CAREERS WEEK! We caught up with Dr Francis Wamonje at NIAB about the top skills needed to work in plant research:
🥼Scientific Knowledge
👀 Observation Skills
#NationalCareersWeek #greencareers

The highlight of our week... Stormzy came to College!

He was here to catch up with many of the Cambridge University students who are being supported with scholarships funded by his #Merky Foundation and HSBC UK

📸 Lloyd Mann

Investigating the Interactions of the Cucumber Mosaic Virus 2b Protein with the Viral 1a Replicase Component and the Cellular RNA Silencing Factor Argonaute 1 mdpi.com/2765822 #mdpiviruses via Viruses MDPI The potential importance of intrinsic disorder for CMV 2b activity!

Thank you so much for this unexpected honour. It was a delightful surprise, and I'm humbled by your kind and generous words. I wish you sustained success in the great work you're doing to promote the life sciences and its numerous benefits in society.

Huge congratulations to you, Prof. Prof. Mizeck Chagunda. This is wonderful news. CTLGH is very lucky to have you. I wish you great success in this well-deserved role 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾. Such an inspiring news this morning. Congratulations!

Such a great honour to work with the most amazing scholars (that I met in Cambridge) in this multidisciplinary and multi-dimensional project. Thank you Gates Cambridge for amplifying our story.

We partnered with JR Biotek Foundation, CSIR-Crops Research Institute, & Oxford University Nanotechnology & Nanomedicine to co-host a Metagenomics Training Workshop in Kumasi, Ghana last month.

12 scientists from across Africa came together to learn cutting-edge FUNGAL sequencing techniques. What an incredible team.

Dr. Peter Sutoris has been incredibly generous in this reflective piece as I continue to fight an advanced recurring cancer. As past year&half have been incredibly challenging for me, my wife & family at so many levels, please keep us in your prayers & thoughts.bit.ly/438ScRT

So wonderful to see Gates Cambridge scholars working together Dr. Carol N. Ibe KNUST GatesCambridgeAlumni

Thanks to everyone. We had a blast.

I had the huge honour of meeting Dr Albert Arhin in Ghana. Albert was a fellow Gates Cambridge PhD scholar. He leads excellent research on ag-rural development, climate change mitigation, etc at KNUST. It's been a joy working together as one of JR Biotek Foundation's expert advisors.

I've got a postdoc position open in my lab. Do you work on moss, single cell transcriptomics or plant developmental genomics? Consider applying for this position - more here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06360

It's a wrap. Indeed a wonderful honor to meet & reconnect with the most amazing scientists. The opportunities are enormous & JR Biotek Foundation will be back with more innovative initiatives to support African ag-scientists, institutions & farmers. May God bless Africa & the African people

This week, we are training 12 brilliant scientists from 7 African countries (and our host's staff scientists) to use more accessible technologies to identify and characterize soil microbial species to accelerate scientific research progress at their home institutions.

Field work is hot, humid & wonderfully muddy.

We then traveled to @Csri_Crops in Kumasi where we are working w/ JR Biotek Foundation Dr. Carol N. Ibe SPUN & scientists from 7 African countries to trial new sequencing techniques

Having a fulfilling time in Kumasi. It gives me great joy to see our scientists, particularly African female scientists, grow in their research careers. It means a lot. I'm excited about our future direction/work on the continent and can't wait to see it all unfold. #AgriImpact