We have a number of exciting Royal Society of Biology Plant Health Undergraduate Studentships 2024 available including:

✅ Investigating genetic resistance to pests in Oilseed Rape Rachel Wells

✅ Investigating wheat stem rust in UK Diane Saunders

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Sarah Bailey John Innes Centre Explores the effects of disrupting wheat rust disease susceptibility factors #monogram24

Big congrats to Francesca Minter on her successful viva today!! We are so proud of you 🍾🥳John Innes Centre

And the winner is Sophien Kamoun UEA Biological Sciences The Sainsbury Laboratory for his
work Improving global crop disease diagnosis to reduce economic loss
and improve food security.
Congratulations!
#UEAIIAwards

One-year taught MSc in Global Plant Health. Apply now for 23 September 2024 entry. Learn from @talbotLabTSL @JonathanDGJones Sophien Kamoun @WenboEffector Frank Menke Cyril Zipfel, Dan MacLean & guest lecturers. tsl.ac.uk/msc @BioUEA

Hats off to our Bright Stars! 🏆Congratulations to Swathy Puthanvila, Surendra Babu, Robert Heal, Daniel Nariño Rojas, and Shannon Greer for claiming the coveted Best Presentation Prizes at #MBPP2023 . Your passion and expertise shine bright in the world of #PlantPathology !

VACANCY - We're looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioinformatics to join the Diane Saunders, working in the field of plant disease diagnostics

Closing date - 23 August 2023
Salary - £35,300 - £43,750
Contract - 2 years, full-time

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Norwich Research Park

BLOG - Inspiring future female leaders in wheat research

This summer, 31 female #wheat researchers took part in the third annual cross-institute Rosalind Franklin #WomenInWheat workshop

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Norwich Research Park Diane Saunders The Sainsbury Laboratory The Royal Society Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research

Fantastic to be back in Ethiopia running our latest MARPLE training workshop 🙌🏻 A highly successful two days, thank you to Ambo Research Station Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research-EIAR for hosting us!! Diane Saunders CIMMYT

Students can now apply to work on these projects for 8-10 weeks this summer. Successful students will receive £350-380 per week. More details here: rsb.org.uk/get-involved/g…

Project 9: Investigating the future threat of wheat stem rust in the UK in a changing climate, led by Professor Diane Saunders at the John Innes Centre in Norwich

One-year taught MSc in Global Plant Health. Apply now for 25 September 2023 entry. @talbotLabTSLwww.tsl.ac.uk/msc @BioUEA

NEWS - Wheat researcher receives major award in Mexico

Marina Millan-Blanquez Marina Millán Blánquez, a 4th year PhD student in Cristobal Uauy group, has received international recognition from Borlaug Global Rust Initiative for her innovative and dedicated research

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

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Closing date - 12 April 2023
Contract - 2 years, full-time

VACANCY - We're looking for a Wheat Transformation Lead with experience in wheat transformation & gene editing to join us, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Crop Genetics

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Closing date - 30 March 2023
Contract - 5 years, full-time

Really nice to be able to squeeze in a visit to CIMMYT in El Batán during our trip to Mexico. We were made to feel very welcome and enjoyed exploring the facilities on offer and meeting some of the amazing people who work there 🌾

Today we’re starting a 2-day career development training & networking workshop as part of Rosalind Franklin Women in Wheat Champions John Innes Centre The Royal Society Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research here at Campo Experimental Norman E Borlaug in Obregón CIMMYT led by Diane Saunders Cristobal Uauy

Why is so important for women in science to have a professional online profile? Thank you Cristobal Uauy for explaining how to do that right at the Wheat Champions career developing training CIMMYT Obregon station Diane Saunders Borlaug Global Rust Initiative

What a great feeling to meet and work alongside all these wonderful Women in Wheat 🌾🌎

Thanks Diane Saunders, Cristobal Uauy, CIMMYT & Borlaug Global Rust Initiative for bringing us together!

DO #ComeWheatUs 👩‍🌾

Very interesting interaction with Cristobal Uauy and Diane Saunders in the Women in wheat champion career development training. Very nice tricks for effective networking and enhanced professional profile.
Thanks @WIT & Nancy Jennings for the support and CIMMYT for hosting us!
#ComeWheatUs