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What's living in the River Yare?

Rivers are the lifeblood of civilisation. It's easy to see why so many of the world's major cities were built around waterways and their fertile, alluvial plains, and Norwich is no different.

  • 07 July 2020

SeedGerm: seeding success with machine learning and computer vision

Seeds are essential for food and farming, and ensuring healthy and consistent germination is vital. SeedGerm provides a cost-efficient, semi-automated, high-throughput and robust method to score seed germination based on machine learning-driven image analysis, and can effectively replace lengthy and error-prone manual assessments.

  • 30 June 2020

EI Business Development and Impact team shortlisted for award

The Earlham Institute has been shortlisted for a highly-regarded industry award in knowledge exchange, recognising best practice in national and international research organisations.

  • 24 June 2020

MicrobioLink:
modelling how the microbiome affects us

A new pipeline lets users model the effect of microbial proteins on humans and can be adapted for COVID-19 research to identify potential therapies.

  • 22 May 2020

Improving the diet of livestock for healthier herds in Sub Saharan Africa

Demand for milk and meat in Sub Saharan Africa is increasing. How can improving native forage crops boost production to meet it?

  • 15 May 2020

Public asked to help find out if bee hotels work

Bee Saviour Behaviour and Earlham Institute launch citizen science campaign to help pollinators by better understanding how people use bee hotels.

  • 01 May 2020

UK Conference of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 2020

Bringing together researchers, software developers and data managers working across the life sciences to share ideas, discoveries, tools and best practice in computational methods.

  • 29 Sep -
  • 30 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.

  • 05 Oct -
  • 16 Oct
  • 2020
  • Scientific training

EI Innovate 2020: From Identification to Intervention

Developing solutions to global issues with EI’s advanced capabilities and expertise in genomics and bioinformatics - improving global food security, environmental management, conservation, health and disease targeting.

  • 17 Nov -
  • 19 Nov
  • 2020
  • Industry

Long Reads Workshop 2021

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.

  • 15 Jun -
  • 16 Jun
  • 2021
  • Scientific training

Norwich Single-Cell Symposium 2021

Now in its fourth year, the annual Norwich Single-Cell Symposium at Earlham Institute covers single-cell genomics technologies and their application in microbial, plant, animal and human health and disease.

  • 15 Sep -
  • 16 Sep
  • 2021
  • Science

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Translating research is vital for success in the new academic landscape


Science and business haven't always been the best bedfellows. But in a world of climate change, increasing levels of antibiotic resistance and a global pandemic, applying research outcomes is more important than ever.

  • 05 July 2020
  • Organisation
  • Learning

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10 Pollinators you never knew were crucial for your 5-A-Day, chocolate, and tequila!


Honeybees get all the press, but what about the other pollinators keeping our supermarket shelves stocked full of fruit and veg - not to mention chocolate and even tequila?

  • 28 June 2020
  • Science
  • Learning

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From cracking the Enigma to decoding living systems: Turing's gifts


Codebreaking, computing, technological development, mathematics, interdisciplinarity. All of these make Earlham Institute a powerful catalyst for life science research, and would perhaps not have been so swiftly brought to bear if it weren’t for Alan Turing, whose birthday, life and achievements we celebrate today.

  • 09 June 2020
  • Technology
  • Science

Feature | 8 min READ

Advancing gene edited crops is crucial for the UK economy & global food security


Changes to gene editing regulation could boost UK research and economy

  • 08 June 2020
  • Technology
  • Science

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Why bioinformatics is important


Bioinformatics is part of the full package.

  • 01 June 2020
  • Technology
  • CSP

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How aphids spit lncRNA into plants to make them a tastier prospect


Aphids are a nuisance, especially ones which can adapt to hundreds of different plant species. Perhaps long non-coding RNA helps them to do it?

  • 27 May 2020
  • Science
  • CSP

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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

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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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