VACANCY - We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join our Crop Genetics department, with tasks involving growing wheat lines, testing the plants for cold tolerance and phenotyping.

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/re...

Deadline - 2 June 2026
Salary - £28,890 - £35,670
Contract - 12 months, full-time

Two great talks by members of the Borrill group at #Monogram2026 today: Miles Curl telling us about drought tolerance in wheat and @beccatesta.bsky.social investigating the role of NAC3 in senescence in wheat. Great chairing of a whole session by @amy-newell.bsky.social too! Well done all 👍🏼

The mystery of redundancy between homoeologs continues! Knocking out one homoeolog in wheat doesn't cause the other homoeologs to be upregulated... nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Great work led by @delfidorussen.bsky.social with @emilieknight.bsky.social @simmojsimmo.bsky.social

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team! They will work on homeolog-informed approaches to tackle cold tolerance in wheat @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Please find out more and apply here: jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?...

#plantsciences #plantscijobs

Happy birthday, Rex!! 🥳🎂

Yesterday, Rex the JIC #Science Cat celebrated his 10th birthday. Rex has been an iconic figure at the JIC for the last five years, greeting visitors at reception and proudly prowling around the NRP 🐾

#ThrowbackThursday to #NorwichPride 🌈

This year was a very joyful celebration of our NRP #LGBTQ+ community. Our #ProudScientists and colourful lab coats hopefully inspired the next generation to believe that anyone can become a scientist, regardless of gender or sexual orientation.

I'm excited to share our work investigating transcriptional compensation in polyploid wheat 🌾
It was fun to work on this project led by @philippaborrill.bsky.social and myself, with key contributions from @emilieknight.bsky.social and @simmojsimmo.bsky.social
The key take-aways, a 🧵

Pleased to have finally got this method to work in wheat! Find out how you can identify direct targets of transcription factors in wheat using protoplasts and the TARGET method:
dx.doi.org/10.17504/pro...
A very useful method for our group to use! borrilllab.com

Really pleased we at the Norwich Research Park celebrated #IDAHoBiT Thursday & showed our support for these members of our community & show the inclusive environment we are a part of here
@johninnescentre.bsky.social @quadraminstitute.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social

🌾 Our PhD student Ismael Gutiérrez has completed a research stay at the @johninnescentre.bsky.social exploring wheat responses to drought under climate change via omics data analysis. 📊 Thank you to Dr. @philippaborrill.bsky.social and her team for the warm welcome and training!

I’m very happy to share the published version of our paper on the role of MET1 in wheat 🌾 🧬

It’s been really exciting to discover more about DNA methylation in wheat and it’s huge polyploid genome

doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...