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Day in the life of… a master microbiologist


At EI, our plant biotechnology and scientific experts are leading the way in genome engineering - setting the standards for synthetic biology techniques and methods.

  • 20 March 2019
  • Learning

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Sherlock: elementary genomics


Soon to be open source, how is Sherlock helping to store and analyse bioinformatics big data?

  • 18 March 2019
  • Technology

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Hammer to the anvil: Synthetic biology & the DNA Foundry


How can Synthetic Biology help us to redesign life: from drugs and food through to living factories, or perhaps even teeth-cleaning microbes?

  • 11 March 2019
  • Science

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Women in Science: Michelle Grey, living the dream


From falling in love with science, to escaping domestic violence, then the journey to EI via MSN messenger: follow Michelle Grey’s inspiring story.

  • 07 March 2019
  • Learning

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Ten years in genome sequencing: Darren Heavens


Genome sequencing has advanced rapidly in the last ten years, and Darren Heavens has been at the heart of it! So, how’s it changed and where’s it going?

  • 04 March 2019
  • Learning

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My obscure route into science: Neil Shearer


Neil Shearer went from a pig farm to potato picking and gravedigging before getting a PhD. It’s not always a straightforward route into science!

  • 25 February 2019
  • Learning

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On the beet: into the wild!


If only there was a police force for sugar beet...? Probably not, but Mark McMullan and Michelle Grey are working out the science behind some of the deadly diseases of sugar beet, using its wild relative - sea beet - to explore how plant pathogens become so well adapted to their agricultural hosts.

  • 18 February 2019
  • Science

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Women in computing: Yuxuan Lan


Working at the intersection of technology and biology, Dr Yuxuan Lan is bringing her wealth of experience in machine learning to the analysis of complex genomes - developing real time analysis of long reads from the Oxford Nanopore MinION.

  • 11 February 2019
  • Technology

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Year of the pig: Flu, you swine!


To usher in the Year of the Pig - a peek into one of Earlham Institute’s research areas: swine flu.

  • 05 February 2019
  • Science