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03 November 2026

New global analysis reveals huge gaps in fungal genomics

A new review has revealed that despite rapid growth in fungal genome sequencing over the past three decades, most of the fungal kingdom remains genomically unexplored, leaving critical blind spots for agriculture, ecology, biotechnology and disease research.
08 November 2019

Earlham Institute takes part in ambitious 'Tree of Knowledge' to map the genomes of all life in UK

Earlham Institute (EI) has been awarded over 700k from the Wellcome Trust for the Darwin Tree of Life Project, aiming to produce a complete genomic UK biota as part of the wider Earth Biogenome Project (EBP).
25 October 2019

Major funding boost for bioscientists of the future

Earlham Institute (EI) is part of the Doctoral Training programme that has been awarded £12 million to train the next generation of bioscientists.
16 October 2019

How to innovate with EI: applying genomics to the real world

EI is at the cutting-edge of bioscience which is applied to global issues by understanding complex biological systems in plants, animals and microbes and their interaction with the environment.
30 September 2019

Science building a BRIDGE between Colombia and UK

EI will celebrate the impact of UK-Colombian science collaborations with the British and Colombian Embassies and the Colombian research council (Colciencias) at the Natural History Museum.
12 August 2019

Protecting biodiversity in Colombia: former guerrilla fighters becoming citizen scientists

Researchers from the Earlham Institute and the University of Sydney are working with ex-combatants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to grow their capability to protect the country’s valuable biodiversity.
07 August 2019

Where are the bees? Tracking down which flowers they pollinate

Earlham Institute researchers develop a new method to rapidly identify sources of bee pollen to understand which flowers are important for bees.