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EI's research brings together a wealth of expertise in biosciences, bioinformatics, high performance computing and statistics to understand complex biological systems in plants and animals and their interaction with the environment.

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Professor Dame Janet Thornton Wins Biochemical Society Award 2021

Earlham Institute’s Chair of the Board of Trustees and pioneer of bioinformatics Professor Dame Janet Thornton has won the Biochemical Society Award for 2021.

  • 30 March 2020

From lab bench to backbench

Earlham Institute scientist Dr Paddy Sudhakar visits politicians in Westminster to explore the link between science and policy-making

  • 13 March 2020

A big data cyberinfrastructure to keep pace with Colombia’s natural capital

A call to build a big data cyberinfrastructure to support state-of-the-art science and the translation of research into evidence-based policymaking.

  • 16 January 2020

Diagnosing infections earlier in preterm babies with real time genomic analysis

Scientists at the Norwich Research Park pioneer microbiome profiling method to speed up ID of infections and more effective treatments in preterm babies.

  • 16 December 2019

Gut feeling: a network approach towards understanding IBD

Scientists at the Earlham Institute establish a pipeline to explore the causes of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

  • 10 December 2019

Discovering hidden plant medicines on your doorstep

Scientists at Earlham Institute are delving into the genetics of UK wildflowers to find the medicines that we never knew were right on our doorstep.

  • 26 November 2019

Single-Cell RNAseq Training Course 2020

**This event has been postponed pending updated guidance on COVID-19 (coronavirus). New dates will be announced in the coming weeks.**

Providing an introduction to Single-Cell Genomics, this course is for bench-based researchers planning a single-cell project.

  • 20 Apr -
  • 24 Apr
  • 2020
  • Scientific training

Genome Annotation Workshop 2020

**This event has been postponed pending updated guidance on COVID-19 (coronavirus). New dates will be announced in the coming weeks.**

This 2-day course will help to provide scientists with an overview of advances in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies, transcriptome assembly and hands-on experience with assembly software to build gene families.

  • 12 May -
  • 13 May
  • 2020
  • Scientific training

Introduction to Python for Biologists 2020

This introductory level course is intended for people with a biological background but with no previous programming experience. The course introduces basic programming concepts with plenty of time to practice writing code and working on your own data.

  • 08 Jun -
  • 12 Jun
  • 2020
  • Scientific training

Long Reads Workshop 2020

**This event has been postponed pending updated guidance on COVID-19 (coronavirus). New dates will be announced in the coming weeks.**

This two-day hands-on training workshop will enable researchers that are currently using long read technology and those analysing long read RNAseq data, to produce genome annotations, differential expression analyses and RenSeq.

  • 17 Jun -
  • 18 Jun
  • 2020
  • Scientific training

Norwich Single-Cell Symposium 2020

The Norwich Single-Cell Symposium covers single-cell genomics technologies and their application in microbial, plant, animal and human health and disease.

  • 16 Sep -
  • 17 Sep
  • 2020
  • Science

Advanced Python for Biologists 2020

This Advanced level workshop is ideal for researchers and technical workers with a background in biology and a basic knowledge of Python, to develop bigger or more complicated programs and increase skills and knowledge about the language, including object-oriented approaches to programming.

  • 21 Sep -
  • 25 Sep
  • 2020
  • Scientific training

Podcast | 30 min READ

Metadata matters: introducing a big data broker for life science


Metadata matters in the life sciences. COPO helps researchers track the context of their data so that it can be used many decades later.

  • 30 March 2020
  • CSP

Feature | 5 min READ

My placement with Beneficial Bio: improving access to molecular biology


In this guest blog, PhD student Sam Witham describes his exciting PIPS placement working with Beneficial Bio in Ghana, running market research and training programmes designed to improve access to molecular biology.

  • 23 March 2020
  • CSP

Feature | 8 min READ

How genomics impacts daily life


From tracking the spread of coronavirus to understanding the very nature of what makes us human: genomics impacts daily life in myriad ways.

  • 16 March 2020
  • Science

Opinion | 5 min READ

Why IBD happens:
It's complicated


Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is on the rise in the UK, but what’s behind it? It’s a complex problem, requiring data-driven platforms to answer.

  • 12 March 2020
  • CSP

Podcast | 30 min READ

Antibiotic resistance: people will die when antibiotics fail


Dr Matt Bawn is tackling antibiotic resistance in salmonella, combining big data and computational biology with single cell analysis to understand the rapid evolution going on at the fine scale.

  • 09 March 2020
  • CSP

Quick read | 5 min READ

NBI Africa Initiative: telling the untold story of research excellence in Africa


The Africa Initiative launches to celebrate and cultivate collaborations between NRP and Africa, while providing a home away from home for African researchers.

  • 14 February 2020
  • Organisation

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Research Group Leaders: come and do your best with us.

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New ways of thinking. New discoveries. Be a part of something bigger. Join us.

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Unravelling complex and critical genomes

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Working with industry to develop new products and applications

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Synthetic Biology for the UK bioscience community

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High-quality genomics data on a large scale

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End-to-end single-cell genomics for plant, microbial and animal cells

Research Assistant (Research Experience Placement)

Salary range: National Living Wage

Opening date 26 March 2020

Closing date 24 May 2020

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Early-Career Group Leader

Salary range: £49,540 - £60,430

Opening date 17 March 2020

Closing date 12 April 2020

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Senior Group Leader

Salary range: £49,540 - £60,430

Opening date 16 March 2020

Closing date 12 April 2020

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ELIXIR-UK Community Engagement Officer

Salary range: £31,625 - £38,575

Opening date 28 February 2020

Closing date 05 April 2020

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  • Impact story

Global food security

Our wide-ranging research into animal, plant and microbial genomics helps us improve crop breeding, withstand disease and enhance yields for future generations.

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