Innovative Approaches, Technologies and Resources
Lead Research Organisation:
John Innes Centre
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
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Technical Summary
Our research encompasses the development and application of three innovative approaches to crop plant genomics, automated phenotyping and interpreting image data. These technologies and resources underpin research at JIC and elsewhere and promote new ways of working in plant science. Our in-field phenotyping and data management system will form part of a wider UK network for measuring crop performance in different environments, directly addressing goals in biotechnology and supporting precision tools. Specifically, we will develop infrastructure for automatic phenotyping of crop growth at the JIC Experimental Farm, and create new computational methods for analysis of plant growth in the field. This work will be carried out in collaboration with the EI High Performance Computing Group and Rothamsted Research (RRES). When fully operational, the JIC Automated Phenotyping Facility will form part of the National Plant Phenotyping Network, feeding data to the Agrimetrics Centre. We are also closely involved in the application of new computational approaches that aim to obtain structural understanding from image data generated by the Bioimaging Facility. Finally, we are responsible for innovation in gene transfer and genome engineering in the JIC Transformation Technology Platform. This provides the means to apply synthetic biology applications to wheat and brassica crops, and also provides a service for industrial collaborations.
Planned Impact
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Organisations
- John Innes Centre (Lead Research Organisation)
- RAGT Seeds (Collaboration)
- Agricultural and Horticulture Development Board (Collaboration)
- National Institute of Agricultural Botany (Collaboration)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Collaboration)
- HM Clause (Collaboration)
- University of Saskatchewan (Collaboration)
- Syngenta International AG (Collaboration)
- Earlham Institute (Collaboration)
- Bayer (Collaboration)
- Natural History Museum (Collaboration)
- KWS UK (Collaboration)
- Polytechnic University of Marche (Collaboration)
- Punjab Aricultural University (Collaboration)
Publications
Adamski N
(2019)
A roadmap for gene functional characterisation in wheat
Adamski NM
(2020)
A roadmap for gene functional characterisation in crops with large genomes: Lessons from polyploid wheat.
in eLife
Bansal M
(2021)
A robust KASP marker for selection of four pairs of linked leaf rust and stripe rust resistance genes introgressed on chromosome arm 5DS from different wheat genomes.
in Molecular biology reports
Bevan MW
(2017)
Genomic innovation for crop improvement.
in Nature
Boden SA
(2019)
How can developmental biology help feed a growing population?
in Development (Cambridge, England)
Borrill P
(2019)
Identification of Transcription Factors Regulating Senescence in Wheat through Gene Regulatory Network Modelling.
in Plant physiology
Borrill P
(2019)
Applying the latest advances in genomics and phenomics for trait discovery in polyploid wheat.
in The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology
Brinton J
(2020)
A haplotype-led approach to increase the precision of wheat breeding.
in Communications biology
Carter R
(2017)
Pavement cells and the topology puzzle.
in Development (Cambridge, England)
| Title | Barley Transformation video |
| Description | Video demonstrating the barley transformation method |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | 765 views |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyPBwtIhPZ0 |
| Title | Brassica transformation video |
| Description | Video demonstrating the method for Brassica transformation |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Over 1000 views. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbtpCtc2lw0 |
| Title | Wheat Transformation video |
| Description | Video describing the wheat transformation method |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | 1020 views |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTYoTdeS_Wo |
| Description | Our advances in biomaging capabilities include: 1. We have released the update of MorphoGraphX called MorphoGraphX 2. This software now allows the user to put coordinate systems on the organ of interest so that they can use positional information to give context to segmentations and quantifications. In the simplest case, the user can ask how gene expression changes along an axis, but it is especially useful for directional information. For example, the user might quantify cell division orientation and ask how it compares to the longitudinal axis of an organ, which in many samples may be quite curved. This has allowed us to develop a model explaining how CK controls growth cessation in the elongation zone in Arabidopsis, and a fully 3D model of a Physcomitrella meristem. 2. In collaboration with DFW, we have implemented MGX processing of time lapse data in crops, including wheat. This includes development of methods for wheat live meristem and carpel imaging. 3. We have made several advances on our modeling software, particularly for the FEM models of 3D plant cells that include growth and accurate mechanics. This has enabled biomechanics experimental work and FEM modeling explaining how cell shape affect tissue stiffness, and how this relates to growth. 4. We have improved the biomechanics hardware/software. This now allow us to use several different types actuating and force sensing tech at different scales (can also stretch wheat samples, bending tests, etc). 5. We have developed new computational tools for simulating tissue stresses in plants, and used them to show how brassinosteroid promotes growth by reducing an epidermal mechanical constraint. Our key advances in developing genome engineering technology include: 1. In preparation for the BRiC ISP and other work at JIC, we are optimising protocols to improve transformation efficiency of pea testing two different varieties (Caméor and JI2822) and using techniques such as the GRF-GIF system to increase shooting efficiency. 2. We have expanded the range of wheat genotypes that can be routinely transformed using GRF-GIF technologies. This includes both UK, tetraploid and CIMMYT cultivars. 3. We have continued to improve genome editing tools, including highly efficient novel nucleases and methods for gene targeting in crops. 4. We have expanded on our approach to identify genetic haplotypes from raw sequence data (as opposed to full genome assemblies). This has allowed us to call introgressions from wild relatives into hexaploid wheat and we have continued to work with industry (through CASE PhD projects) and academics. The code has been enhanced and is open source (https://github.com/Uauy-Lab/IBSpy). 5. We have developed transgene-free genome edited lines in wheat. These lines have been approved for field trials (Qualifying Higher Plant Notification 23/Q01) and will be sown in March 2023. |
| Exploitation Route | The main outputs are 1. A suite of image analysis software that will make an important contribution to measuring and understanding of the cellular basis of organ growth in plants. 2. Gene editing approaches in the major UK crops wheat, barley, brassica and pea and have generated new genomic resources for gene functional characterisation. |
| Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Communities and Social Services/Policy Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
| Description | This research programme is developing and applying new approaches in two technological capabilities, genome engineering and advanced bioimaging. We are at the forefront of developing methodology to exploit genome engineering technology in crop plants. Our new methodologies have resulted in improvements in transformation efficiency and subsequently genome editing efficiencies in cereal and Brassica crops and allowed expansion of editing technologies. This is enabling us to generate edited Brassica and cereal crops, including UK commercial lines and key international CIMMYT germplasm enabling testing for improved agronomic traits. As part of establishing a developmental genetics programme in pea (Pisum sativum), we are now also developing improved protocols for pea transformation and genome editing. We have shared germplasm for novel wheat alleles with the UK and international breeding community through the DFW Breeders' Toolkit. We have also made all protocols, genetic markers and associated information available through publications. Our expertise puts us in a strong position for advising policy makers, farmers and growers and the general public with accurate information on the use of modern plant breeding methods for fast and efficient crop development. We continue to engage heavily in discussions the agricultural industry and policy makers to discuss gene editing. We discussed genome editing approaches with government and policy makers, for example at the FERA Annual Science Symposium; the Westminster Forum on Novel foods in the UK - regulation, innovation and market development; and in discussions at a Farmers Club event attended by ministers, shadow ministers, NFU, DEFRA and other government officials. This also included Royal Society Pairing Scheme Partnered with Sabrina Roberts, Policy Lead for Genetically Modified Organisms at the Food Standards Agency. We also hosted NFU vice-president David Exwood to discuss on genome editing legislation. We has extensive scientific engagement to support the progress of the Genetic Technologies (Precision Breeding) Bill through parliament including providing evidence at the committee stage of the Bill and engagement with MPs and Peers throughout the process, including in depth discussions with Lord Krebs, Lord Winston, Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle and Baroness Hayman of Ullock on the eve of the final reading. The British legislation is being followed closely by other internationally and we have engaged in this knowledge transfer. For example, we participated in debate on genome editing in Switzerland with breeding industry and policy makers. This included interviews for the major Swiss news channel SNF who aired this at the start of their main news broadcast. We sit on the Food Standards Agency Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes including its Products of Genetic Technologies sub-group. We have engaged with industry through discussions, for example, through visits with Frontier, Corteva and Indigro to inform then on genome editing capabilities and the impact that these approaches could have on their business. We are also contributing activities and knowledge at an international level. For example, we provide training in crop transformation and genome editing, in particular to early career researchers. We have delivered training to 50 external research groups across the UK, and held a bespoke genome editing workshop in Chile. Additionally, our findings feed into broader international training programmes provided to industry and academics. We also provide lectures on CRISPR as part of the Norwich based MSc programme, Plant Genetics and Crop Improvement which trains 10-15 students per year, 47% of which, have gone on to work in the plant breeding and related industries. This is also expanded to third year undergraduates in Cambridge Plant Sciences. We held a training workshop on wheat genetics and genomics for Central Asia. This four-day workshop was held in Kazakhstan and was attended by 22 scientists from the region and wad reported upon by the major Kazakh news outlet. We engage with the general public on genome editing technologies through television (e.g. interview for SNF news), radio interviews (e.g. Farming Today), debates, and events (e.g. Norwich Science Festival). Advanced bioimaging is being developed from the cellular to the field level. Understanding the cellular basis of growth is a key problem in biology. We have developed computational and visualization tools to measure the sizes, locations and divisions of cells during leaf growth that will provide a quantitative understanding of organ growth and underlying mechanisms. Software to analyse tissue topology has been made publicly available and has been used by other groups for analysis on leaves as well as other tissues. The novel method for automated and quantitative assessment of complex cell shapes, including features such as protrusion number and amplitude, with demonstrated functionality for Arabidopsis, Drosophila and in silico cells, has also been made publicly available. MorphoGraphX, our image processing software, and its updated version 2 allows visualization of biological datasets and has enhanced the global research capability, facilitating the quantification of plant development processes which wouldn't otherwise be feasible. We have set up a website to allow access to the open-source application, which is designed in a modular format making to work with existing libraries or to incorporate new algorithms. This has now been used by dozens of research groups internationally, facilitating the development of new theories in plant development. To further communicate these advances we have participated in multiple international conferences including Plant Synthetic Biology Conference 2022, CRAG Barcelona; Plant computational biology workshop, Lyon, France; BIRS-CMO Workshop Multiscale Modeling of Plant Growth, Pattern Formation and Actuation. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic Policy & public services |
| Description | AGG Wheat Scientific and Technical Steering Committee |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Contribution towards the safety assessment of novel and GM foods |
| Description | Bioinformatics Community of Practice (Eight-month training at BecA) |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Bioinformatics Community of Practice (Eight-month training at BecA) |
| URL | https://acaciaafrica.org/bioinformatics-community-practice/ |
| Description | Bioinformatics Training Workshop pre-Monogram |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Bioinformatics Traning Workshop pre-Monogram |
| Description | Bioinformatics for Plant Biology Course 2018 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Bioinformatics for Plant Biology Course 2018 |
| Description | DEFRA roundtable on genome Editing |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Contributed to a round table attended by Michael Gove to discuss regulation of genome editing. |
| Description | Discussion with DEFRA on gene editing |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Discussions David Exwood NFU |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Helped shape Precision Breeding Bill |
| Description | Food Standards Agency GM working group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Food Systems Assessment Panel Meeting |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Genome Editing debate Switzerland |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Provide UK example of how we are regulating precision bred organisms |
| Description | Grant Writing Workshop |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Grant Writing Workshop (2021_2) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Harwood W. became a member of the advisory committee on Animal Feeding stuffs (ACAF) as biotechnology expert, advising the government on biotechnology related issues including GM and genome editing. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Informed UK Parliament Post-Note, Genome-edited food crops |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0663/POST-PN-0663.pdf |
| Description | MSc course on Model to Crop |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | MSc course on Wheat Yield |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Meeting with Secretary to the Government of India Department of Biotechnology |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Member of the Food Standards Agency Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes and their PGT sub-group. Ongoing. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Contribution to the regulatory framework for products of precision breeding technologies |
| Description | PhD lecture on Wheat genomics to Catholic University in Chile |
| Geographic Reach | South America |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | PhD lecture on Wheat genomics |
| Description | Precision Breeding Bill - Evidence provided during the committee stage |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Discussions with MPs, Members of the House of Lords, Defra and the Food Standards Agency have helped to inform the debates on the Precision Breeding Bill. |
| Description | Royal Society Meeting: The CRISPR revolution |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Scientific writing for grad students (Catholic University of Chile) |
| Geographic Reach | South America |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Seminar for DEFRA on Genome Editing |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Soft skills workshop |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Three lectures for PLL1 last year Plant Science course |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Three lectures for PLL1 last year Plant Science course (2022) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Three modules in Cambridge Plant Science undergraduate course |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Three modules in Cambridge Plant Science undergraduate course |
| Description | Transforming UK Food Systems Panel |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | UK Global Food Security Science Advisory Board |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk/ |
| Description | UK-China policy dialogue on genetic technologies, The Royal Society |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Discussion on regulatory requirements for genetic technologies, better understanding of participants positions. |
| Description | Undergraduate course UEA MSc |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Undergraduate course UEA MSc |
| Description | Visit by Adam Stains, Matt Freeman and Harriet Trewin, BBSRC: Discussion on latest developments in crop breeding techniques |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Visit by Green Party Norfolk County Councillors |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Visit from Government Office of Science (Nancy Bailey, Neil Waby, Rebecca Nohl)- Discussion on CRISPR gene editing |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Visit from the Board of GenOk, Norway (senior advisors to Government in Norway and Finland) with Harwood W. to discuss advances in genetic modification and genome editing. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Visit of Norman Lamb MP |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Workshop on Soft Skills, BGRI Meeting |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Workshop on Soft Skills, BGRI Meeting |
| Description | (dcPolyWheat) - Dominant cis-regulatory variation to improve quantitative traits in polyploid wheat |
| Amount | € 1,999,994 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 866328 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 09/2025 |
| Description | 18-BTT: Induction of double haploids in wheat using CENH3 mutants and genome editing |
| Amount | £222,680 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/S020888/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | A Platform to Rate Organisms Bred for Improved Traits and Yield (PROBITY) |
| Amount | £1,568,698 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 10097973 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2024 |
| End | 06/2027 |
| Description | Automation of seed performance testing |
| Amount | £10,452 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/R012369/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2017 |
| End | 04/2018 |
| Description | Building capacity in third-generation genomics and bioinformatics for agricultural biosciences in Africa |
| Amount | £99,952 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/T017422/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Daphne Jackson Trust Fellowship |
| Amount | £135,331 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Surrey |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2017 |
| End | 06/2019 |
| Description | EMBO Practical Courses and Workshops |
| Amount | € 33,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Molecular Biology Organisation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | Germany |
| Start | 06/2017 |
| End | 07/2017 |
| Description | Engineering Nitrogen Symbiosis for Africa (ENSA) Phase 2 |
| Amount | $15,000,000 (USD) |
| Funding ID | OPP1172165 |
| Organisation | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | ISCF-TFP-SA-JIC - Field trials of GM wheat and gene edited Brassicas |
| Amount | £140,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ISCF-TFP-SA-JIC |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | IWYP Call 2: Rooty-A root ideotype toolbox to support improved wheat yields |
| Amount | £151,462 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/S012818/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2018 |
| End | 11/2021 |
| Description | International Wheat Yield Partnership |
| Amount | £1,500,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2018 |
| End | 05/2021 |
| Description | Leveraging genetic innovations for accelerated breeding of climate resilient and nutritious crops |
| Amount | £1,300,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2024 |
| End | 12/2026 |
| Description | Seeding Catalyst Award |
| Amount | £34,814 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/SCA/JIC/17 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2017 |
| End | 02/2018 |
| Description | Wheat floral organ size and its effects on grain size |
| Amount | £549,750 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/S016945/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2019 |
| End | 05/2022 |
| Title | New wheat transformation method |
| Description | An efficient and reproducible method for wheat transformation based on Agrobacterium-mediateed transformation of immature embryos. |
| Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The method was used to produce transgenic wheat for a number of research projects including the production of high-iron wheat lines included in field trials in 2019. |
| Title | new seed germination phenotyping platform |
| Description | We have developed new hardware and software that automates seed germination phenotyping. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This has allowed us to increase the throughpout of seed phenotyping procedures in the lab. |
| Title | B. napus transcriptome timeseries data |
| Description | Brassica napus floral transition transcriptome timeseries for 4 accessions. PRJNA648031 - currently embagoed due to IP. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Publication 10.1111/nph.17131. Dataset underpins current BRAVO project development. |
| Title | B. rapa transcriptome timeseries data |
| Description | Developmental timeseries transcriptome dataset through the floral transition of Brassica rapa accessions R-o18 and Sarisha14 available at NCBI Sequence Read Archive, project ID PRJNA593493. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Dataet underpins the development of comparative transcriptomics techniques within BRAVO and understanding of the floral transition in B. rapa. |
| Title | Crop Haplotypes |
| Description | http://www.crop-haplotypes.com/ |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Identify haplotypes from 10 pangenome project |
| URL | http://www.crop-haplotypes.com/ |
| Title | ORDER:Oilseed Rape Developmental Expression Resource |
| Description | This is a web app to facilitate interrogation of time series data collected from Brassica napus. The data was collected from the cultivars Tapidor (a winter cultivar) and Westar (a spring cultivar) with the aim of deciphering how the flowering time gene regulatory network is constructed, and how it differs from the network elucidated in Arabidopsis thaliana. This will be expanded to include more data developed during the BRAVO project. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This app and data contained within has formed the basis for further work within the area. This forms a framework for the addition of further dataset developed within BRAVO and beyond. The Aionplot software via GitHub for free use. |
| URL | http://order.jic.ac.uk |
| Title | PolyMarker |
| Description | Update on Primer design for polyploid species |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | New biology |
| URL | http://bar.utoronto.ca/efp_wheat/cgi-bin/efpWeb.cgi |
| Title | Raw and analysed images from Serrano-Mislata et al. 2017 |
| Description | Collection of raw confocal images and analysed images (13 Gb total) used to substantiate the publication Serrano-Mislata et al. 2017, Nature Plants, doi: 10.1038/s41477-017-0003-y. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The dataset has been viewed 677 times and dowloaded 732 times by March 2022. |
| URL | https://figshare.com/articles/Serrano-Mislata_et_al_2017_image_analysis/4675801/1 |
| Title | Raw and processed imaging data associated with manuscript by D'Ario et al., 2021, Science 372: 1176-1181 |
| Description | List of source images used in the manuscript "Cell size controlled in plants using DNA content as an internal scale", by D'Ario et al., 2021. Each folder listed contains source data used for the indicated manuscript figures, including original and processed images, coordinates of manually placed landmarks, measurement tables and metadata. The folders are publicly available at the DOIs provided. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 100 views, 30 downloads in 2021 |
| Title | SNF Version 1.3.1. |
| Description | SNF is a program that can be used for the identification of small RNAs produced from inverted repeat loci. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This algorithm provides a general method for surveying genomes for candidate loci controlling gene activity via small RNAs. |
| URL | https://github.com/LF-Bioinformatics/SNF |
| Title | Scripts and supporting tables used in numerical and ODE simulations in D'Ario et al., 2021, Science 372: 1176-1181 |
| Description | This dataset contains scripts and supporting tables used in numerical and ODE simulations shown in the manuscript: D'Ario,M., Tavares, R., Schiessl, K., Desvoyes, B., Gutierrez, C., Howard, M. and Sablowski, R. (2021). Cell size controlled in plants using DNA content as an internal scale. Science 372: 1176-1181, DOI:10.1126/science.abb4348 The folder experimental_data contains tables with data on cell division asymmetry, cellular growth rates, rates of KRP4 synthesis and variation in KRP4 levels before mitosis. These tables were produced from confocal images using image analysis scripts available here: dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14529372 The scripts numerical_simulations.py and ODE_simulations were written in Python 2.7; functions are imported from scipy, numpy and matplotlib. To run the simulations and generate figures, the functions are pasted from the scripts into a Python terminal, following the instructions annotated on the scripts. Parameter values and paths are defined within the scripts. Simulated cell data, statistical analysis and graphs produced by the scripts are placed in the simulations_output folder. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 116 views, 30 downloads in 2021 |
| Title | Source code for image analysis associated with publication D'Ario et al. 2021, Science 372: 1176-1181 |
| Description | Annotated code for image analysis scripts used in the manuscript "Cell size controlled in plants using DNA content as an internal scale", by D'Ario et al. 2021, Science 372: 1176-1181. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 70 views, 20 downloads in 2021. |
| Title | Wheat Expression |
| Description | The majority of RNA-seq expression studies in plants remain underutilised and inaccessible due to the use of disparate transcriptome references and the lack of skills and resources to analyse and visualise this data. We have developed expVIP, an expression Visualisation and Integration Platform, which allows easy analysis of RNA-seq data combined with an intuitive and interactive interface. Users can analyse public and user-specified datasets with minimal bioinformatics knowledge using the expVIP virtual machine. This generates a custom web browser to visualise, sort and filter the RNA-seq data and provides outputs for differential gene expression analysis. We demonstrate expVIP's suitability for polyploid crops and evaluate its performance across a range of biologically-relevant scenarios. To exemplify its use in crop research we developed a flexible wheat expression browser (www.wheat-expression.com) which can be expanded with user-generated data in a local virtual machine environment. The open-access expVIP platform will facilitate the analysis of gene expression data from a wide variety of species by enabling the easy integration, visualisation and comparison of RNA-seq data across experiments. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This database provides open access to over 400 RNAseq studies in wheat and the underlying algorithms are all available to adapt to any species with a reference genome. Over 11,000 sessions from >5,000 and >50,000 pageviews |
| URL | http://www.wheat-expression.com |
| Title | Wheat TILLING |
| Description | Database with data from exome captured wheat mutants |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Over 2,000 unique users across >5,000 sessions. |
| URL | http://www.wheat-tilling.com |
| Title | Wheat TILLING in EnsemblPlants |
| Description | Update of sequenced mutants and coordination with ensemblPlants |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | over 7000 mutants distributed from over 300 orders |
| URL | http://plants.ensembl.org/Triticum_aestivum/Info/Index |
| Title | Wheat Training |
| Description | This website provides background information and practical resources to help both budding wheat scientists as well as researchers looking to expand their work into wheat. There is a need to improve crops to feed the world's growing population with the backdrop of climate change. Translation of fundamental plant biology research (e.g. from Arabidopsis thaliana) into crops such as wheat provides a potential route to deal with this challenge. However learning even simple tasks such as growing and crossing wheat plants requires time and effort, while material and methods sections in published articles are often short and cannot substitute teaching aids. This is also true for more complex topics such as the genomics aspect of wheat. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | >4,500 sessions from >2,700 users |
| URL | http://www.wheat-training.com/ |
| Title | Wheat Training |
| Description | Wheat Training website to help new researchers engage with wheat |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | http://www.wheat-training.com/ |
| URL | http://www.wheat-training.com/ |
| Title | eFP expression browser |
| Description | Expression browser for wheat data |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | New biology |
| URL | http://bar.utoronto.ca/efp_wheat/cgi-bin/efpWeb.cgi |
| Description | 10 Pangenome Project |
| Organisation | University of Saskatchewan |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration for 10 pangenome project |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration for 10 pangenome project |
| Impact | Sequencing of 10 wheat varieties |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | AHDB Pod shatter |
| Organisation | Agricultural and Horticulture Development Board |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Testing of material from recommended list to determine feasibility of uptake of this as testing criteria. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Growth of material for testing in a field trial and harvesting of material. |
| Impact | Collaboration is ongoing. Initial report produced and further work will come from this initial study. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | AHDB pod shatter 2019 |
| Organisation | Agricultural and Horticulture Development Board |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | JI Enterprises contract work for AHDB to develop pod shatter testing for the recommended list. Contract work performed to measure pod shatter. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Field trials and material provided for testing. |
| Impact | Report delivered. Potential for future work identified. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Bayer |
| Organisation | Bayer |
| Department | Bayer CropScience Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Wheat genetics and genomics |
| Collaborator Contribution | Wheat breeding and molecular knowledge |
| Impact | joint projects |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Bayer |
| Organisation | Bayer |
| Department | Bayer CropScience Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Wheat genetics and genomics |
| Collaborator Contribution | Wheat breeding and molecular knowledge |
| Impact | joint projects |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | COST Action CA18111 (Genome editing in plants - a technology with transformative potential) (PlantEd) |
| Organisation | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Management Committee substitute for the UK We have contributed training in transformation and genome editing through protocols and training videos. We have also contributed to regulatory discussions, for example events in the European parliament. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners have contributed extensive expertise in plant genome editing technologies over a range of plant species. During 2020/21 a webinar series has been organised. Regular newsletter are prepared. PlantEd involves 330 experts from 36 European countries and beyond. It was not possible to list them all under collaborators but the COST Action lead is listed. |
| Impact | Outputs include a presentation to the PlantEd meeting in Novi Sad, November 2019 entitled 'Development and application of CRISPR/Cas9 based genome editing resources in crops'. Meetings in 2020 were canceled due to the pandemic and replaced with on-line webinars. A presentation was provided to an MEP webinar 26 January 2021 entitled 'Genome editing and the Farm to Fork strategy'. Two members of our group were authors on a manuscript: 'The Status under EU Law of Organisms Developed through Novel Genomic Techniques'. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | COST Action iPLANTA (Modifying plants to produce interfering RNA) |
| Organisation | Polytechnic University of Marche |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UK substitute management committee member |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attendance at first iPLANTA conference, Rome, Feb 2017. Presentation 'A comparison of target gene suppression by RNAi and RNA-guided Cas9 nuclease.' |
| Impact | Publication with COST action members and involvement in discussions on the regulation of NBTs at EU level. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Clause - Brassica vegetable speed breeding |
| Organisation | HM Clause |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Screening of germplasms for response to speedbreeding |
| Collaborator Contribution | Germplasm and details about growth conditions |
| Impact | Further knowledeg about plant speedbreeding respsonse |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration with the Earlham Institute |
| Organisation | Earlham Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We provided expertise in seed germination, and datasets of images of seed germination in a number of species. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators used their expertise in machine learning and computer vision to develop algorithms for scoring seed germination |
| Impact | This is an interdisciplinary collaboration, the disciplanes being plant science and artifical intelligence. The outcome is a new automated software tool for scoring seed germination from image stacks. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | KWS |
| Organisation | KWS UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Genetics and genomics |
| Collaborator Contribution | Breeder know how and germplasm |
| Impact | joint projects |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | New marker technologies for wheat using Illumina sequencing |
| Organisation | Earlham Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The overall aim of the partnership with EI is to develop a new set of sequencing technologies for high-throughput genotyping of wheat using the power of Illumina sequencing. JIC is providing ideas and concepts and wheat DNA samples for analyses and coordinates the project; UPDATE: NIAB is providing access to populations for genotyping |
| Collaborator Contribution | The EI provides sequencing and analyses and interpretation in the partnership. NIAB provide lines for testing genotyping and assistance with analysis of data. |
| Impact | It is too early for any outputs of the project. We have done extensive computational analyses of 10 sequenced and assembled wheat varieties and identified vast numbers of variety-specific polymorphisms. These have been mapped to the reference assembly. A set of 1000 polymorphic regions mapped to each Mb of group 3 chromosomes was identified and gene capture probes designed. DNA from a wide variety of testing lines has been made. In the coming months this DNA will be genotyped to test the method. Future goals are to refine the method to make it cost effective for application in pedigree breeding |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | New marker technologies for wheat using Illumina sequencing |
| Organisation | National Institute Of Agricultural Botany |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The overall aim of the partnership with EI is to develop a new set of sequencing technologies for high-throughput genotyping of wheat using the power of Illumina sequencing. JIC is providing ideas and concepts and wheat DNA samples for analyses and coordinates the project; UPDATE: NIAB is providing access to populations for genotyping |
| Collaborator Contribution | The EI provides sequencing and analyses and interpretation in the partnership. NIAB provide lines for testing genotyping and assistance with analysis of data. |
| Impact | It is too early for any outputs of the project. We have done extensive computational analyses of 10 sequenced and assembled wheat varieties and identified vast numbers of variety-specific polymorphisms. These have been mapped to the reference assembly. A set of 1000 polymorphic regions mapped to each Mb of group 3 chromosomes was identified and gene capture probes designed. DNA from a wide variety of testing lines has been made. In the coming months this DNA will be genotyped to test the method. Future goals are to refine the method to make it cost effective for application in pedigree breeding |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | New marker technologies for wheat using Illumina sequencing |
| Organisation | Natural History Museum |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The overall aim of the partnership with EI is to develop a new set of sequencing technologies for high-throughput genotyping of wheat using the power of Illumina sequencing. JIC is providing ideas and concepts and wheat DNA samples for analyses and coordinates the project; UPDATE: NIAB is providing access to populations for genotyping |
| Collaborator Contribution | The EI provides sequencing and analyses and interpretation in the partnership. NIAB provide lines for testing genotyping and assistance with analysis of data. |
| Impact | It is too early for any outputs of the project. We have done extensive computational analyses of 10 sequenced and assembled wheat varieties and identified vast numbers of variety-specific polymorphisms. These have been mapped to the reference assembly. A set of 1000 polymorphic regions mapped to each Mb of group 3 chromosomes was identified and gene capture probes designed. DNA from a wide variety of testing lines has been made. In the coming months this DNA will be genotyped to test the method. Future goals are to refine the method to make it cost effective for application in pedigree breeding |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Punjab Agricultural University |
| Organisation | Punjab Aricultural University |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Know how on wheat genomics and genetics, training. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Gernplasm, local knowledge |
| Impact | Have helped partners implement marker technology. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | RAGT |
| Organisation | RAGT Seeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Genetics and genomics |
| Collaborator Contribution | Wheat germplasm and know how |
| Impact | Shared projects |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Syngenta |
| Organisation | Syngenta International AG |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Have shared germplasm for use in their breeding programmes. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Have taken up JIC IP to use in their breeding operations. |
| Impact | This has just started. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | collaboration with syngenta seeds |
| Organisation | Syngenta International AG |
| Department | Syngenta Seeds |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | we identified a joint research inetrest in automation of seed vigour testing. we provided software for testing for automatic calculation of germination parameters. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They provided seeds and expertise in germination box design. |
| Impact | computer science plant science |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Title | GENES ASSOCIATED WITH RESISTANCE TO WHEAT YELLOW RUST |
| Description | The invention relates to genes associated with disease resistance in plants. According to an aspect of the invention is provided an isolated nucleic acid encoding a nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat (NLR) polypeptide comprising a zinc-finger BED domain, wherein expression of the NLR polypeptide in a plant confers or enhances resistance of the plant to a fungus, for example wheat yellow (stripe) rust fungus Puccinia striiformisi f. sp. tritici. |
| IP Reference | WO2019197408 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2019 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | Wheat yellow rust resistance genes. |
| Title | Crop Haplotype |
| Description | The Crop Haplotypes website provides an interactive graphic visualisation of the shared haplotypes between the wheat genome assemblies generated as part of the 10+ Wheat Genome Project (Brinton et al, 2020; Walkowiak et al, 2020). We used chromosome-level genome assemblies of nine wheat cultivars (ArinaLrFor, Jagger, Julius, Lancer, Landmark, Mace, Norin61, Stanley, SY-Mattis) and the Chinese Spring RefSev1.0 assembly alongside scaffold-level assemblies of five additional cultivars (Cadenza, Claire, Paragon, Robigus and Weebill). For more details on the cultivars and overall context of the project see this link and the manuscript describing these assemblies (Walkowiak et al, 2020). To call haplotype blocks we used a combination of whole chromosome level NUCmer alignments and gene-based pairwise alignments using BLASTn. Briefly, we defined haplotype blocks as physical regions with =99.99% sequence identity (across a fixed bin size of 5-, 2.5- or 1-Mbp) between pairwise comparisons of cultivars in the 10+ Wheat Genome Project. More details on this haplotype analysis and the underlying methodologies can be found in the manuscript "A haplotype-led approach to increase the precision of wheat breeding" (Brinton et al, 2020). |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | We used this software for two publications (Brinton et al 2020 Comms Biology and Walkowiak et al 2020 Nature) |
| URL | http://www.crop-haplotypes.com/ |
| Title | Development of SeedGerm automated seed germination scoring software |
| Description | The software automates the scoring of seed germination of lots of cereal, Brassica, tomato, pepper, maize and rice seeds. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The software has been licensed to Syngenta Seeds for use in routine seed technology applications. The software has been trialled at Elsoms seeds for monitoring vegetable seed germination. The software has been used in a collaboration with KWS to aid in selecting high vigour oilseed rape lines. |
| Title | Expression Browser in wheat |
| Description | Expression browser for wheat gene expression data |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | New biology |
| URL | http://www.wheat-expression.com/ |
| Title | Random Impact Machine V2 |
| Description | New version of the Random Impact Machine for pod shatter testing produced complete with upgraded software for the analysis of the results. Software is freely available on GitHub and currently submitted for publication. |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Machine and software have been sold commercially as a packet. The systems is currently being investigated by the AHDB as a criteria for the variety National List testing system. |
| Title | Wheat Training |
| Description | This website provides background information and practical resources to help both budding wheat scientists as well as researchers looking to expand their work into wheat. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Roughly 1000 pageviews per month from across the world |
| URL | http://www.wheat-training.com/ |
| Description | 8-week Undergraduate Summer School 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | During 8 weeks of the summer of 2018 15 undergraduates participated in the John Innes Centre International Summer School, which provides invaluable insight and experience of research to undergraduates about to enter their final year of studies. Each student spends 8 weeks in a lab at either the Sainsbury Laboratory, the Earlham Institute or the John Innes Centre, all located on the Norwich Research Park working on a project that they have selected. Enrico Coen is a key player in the organisation and running of the summer school. Other scientists in GEN were also involved in the training and speaking to the students during their stay. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/blog/2018-undergraduate-summer-school/ |
| Description | ABC (Spain) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Descifrado el genoma del trigo, el cereal más cultivado del planeta |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://abci-descifrado-genoma-trigo-cereal-mas-cultivado-planeta-201808162031_noticia.html |
| Description | ADHB strategic farmers group Scotland (Penny Hundleby) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | ADHB strategic farmers group Scotland - on-line talk on 'Genome Editing potential for pest control' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | AICC Conference keynote |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | AICC Conference keynote |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Africa summer school |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | AfriPlantSci - Healthy Plants, Healthy People, Healthy Planet, Pwani University. A 2 week interactive masterclass for early-career researchers from across sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Agricultural Industries Confederation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Agribusiness Meeting: A step change in plant breeding to achieve a UK competitive advantage |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Agronomy and farming conference talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on the current work on oilseed rape and cabbage stem flea beetle in the UK to ~100 farmers and agronomists from Frontier. Presentation sparked good discussion session following talk. Discussions ongoing about future work between JIC and Frontier in this area. Planned visit from plant breeding company RAGT to JIC to look at work/future potential interaction |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Argentinian International Wheat Congress (keynote) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Opening keynote Argentinian International Wheat Congress |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Article STEMM Champion: Sam Fox |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Cambridge Norwich Tech Corridor article about Sam Fox (Coen Lab) as a STEMM Champion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.techcorridor.co.uk/articles/tech-corridor-women-in-steam-the-scientists/ |
| Description | Article for publication highlight - ISPMF society newsletter : European Court of Justice ruling on Plant Genome Editing: |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Abstract: On July 25th 2018 the European Court of Justice ruled that Genome Edited plants were not exempt from the EU GMO directive. A decision which shocked the scientific community resulting in a great deal of lobbying to challenge this decision... The decision on whether to exempt genome edited plants from the burdensome EU GMO directive had been eagerly awaited in Europe for the last few years. According to the EU GMO directive a plant is considered a GMO if it has been altered in such a way that could not occur in nature. By this very definition genome edited crops are thus considered GMOs. However, within the current directive - which was written in 2001 prior to Genome Editing techniques being developed - several breeding techniques were listed as being exempt from the directive, one of which was mutagenesis. Mutation breeding, developed in the 1930s, involves the exposure of seeds to chemical or radiation treatment to induce changes to the plants DNA. This exposure can result in 100s to 1000s of random double stranded breaks in the plants DNA which the cell will attempts to repair. During the repair process errors can occur; some bases (A, C, T or Gs) may be deleted, or the wrong bases recruited during the repair, resulting in mutations (or changes) to the original genetic sequence. Some of these changes may result in desirable new traits breeders could then introduce into their traditional breeding programs, backcrossing over many generations to remove the undesirable mutations. Whereas, genome editing technology allows for targeted breaks to be made to the DNA at a precise location, which can then be repaired by the cells own error prone repair mechanism as described before. Resulting in a mutation that could be indistinguishable from one developed through mutation breeding, albeit produced far quicker and with more precision. This led several EU Member States to interpret the GMO directive to conclude that certain cases of genome editing, which result in mutations to the existing plant genome (i.e. not the introduction of new genetic sequences) should fall within the same exemption category as mutagenesis. Indeed, this was the view taken by several countries outside of the EU, such as Argentina, Chile, Brazil, the US, Canada and Japan. This decision by some EU Member States to exempt such genome edited plants from the GMO directive was later challenged by several NGOs and eventually referred to the European Court of Justice to decide. The ruling on the 25th July 2018, failed to deliver the clarity sought by many, especially given the added complexity that the detection and identification of unknown genome-edited crops is currently not achievable under realistic circumstances. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Association of independent crop consultants (AICC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at the Association of Independent Crop Consultants Conference 2019 followed by panel discussion session on the role of research and plant breeding in pest resistance. Excellent networking made with a different stakeholder group gaining better interactions in this area. Networking with the AICC resulted in their attendance of the BRAVO stakeholders meeting and requested interest on information for future activities. Contacts made will contact JIC for speaker selection in the future offering the oppertunities to promote other projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Attendance of a genome database workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Attendanec of the Ensembl 4 Breeders workshop at EBI to discuss use of Ensembl plants database and future interactions and accesibility for data that is being generated by the BBSRC sLoLa BRAVO and the UK Brassica Research Community. The workshop included a planning session for future functionality that is desired within EnsemblPlants. This discussion has influenced the work which will be taken forward at the EBI. Potential funding opportunities were discussed. Discussion of the data generated within BRAVO highlighted the potential use to the breeding community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Australian, UK scientists solve 30-year wheat rust genetics puzzle |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Australian, UK scientists solve 30-year wheat rust genetics puzzle |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uos-aus082418.php |
| Description | BBC Breakfast interviews |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 3 live interviews during the BBC Breakfast programme discussing GM and one live interview for the BBC news. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | BBC News |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Wheat gene map to help feed the world |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45173968 |
| Description | BBC Norfolk TV Interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As ISP funding was publicised, local news media ran stories on the impact this will have to science, the environment, industry and the region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | BBC World |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | BBC World: wheat genome (Pallab Ghosh) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | BBSRC Food Priming Partnership Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | BBSRC Food Priming Partnership Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | BBSRC Science showcase event at Camden BRI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Industry-academia interactions in a BBSRC-organised event at Camden BRI to showcase relevant BBSRC projects. I presented the BRAVO programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | BCPC Pests and Beneficial review presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk on plant breeding for insect resistance and new breeding approaches at the BCPC Pests and Beneficials review 2019 meeting. A good feedback and panel discussion session followed the presentation session. Presentation has resulted in increase networking with other organisations working in this area and a Press release in the Farmers Guardian magazine. Future development of research activities has been discussed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | BIRS-CMO Workshop Multiscale Modeling of Plant Growth, Pattern Formation and Actuation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Academic workshop presenting current results |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.birs.ca/events/2022/5-day-workshops/22w5179 |
| Description | Biogemma collaboration visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit to Biogemma to talk about current research in Brassica at JIC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Brassica genetics lecture x 2 hours for University of East Anglia Plant Breeding and Crop Genetics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lecture of the UEA Plant breeding course on Brassica genetics, basic concepts through to current research. Students were engaged and asked questions thoughout and following lecture. Impact is training future scientists/plant breeders |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Breeders Day 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This event was designed to allow plant breeders, agronomists and policy makers to find out about some the JIC's latest developments in germplasm for future crops, both wheat and Brassica crops. Early career researchers presented their findings and discussions allowed us to understand key concerns from industry which we can help to address. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | CPM Magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | CPM Magazine interview on wheat genome and genetics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.cpm-magazine.co.uk/2018/08/21/genetics-hope-future-wheat/# |
| Description | Careers talk for PhD students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Wager N. gave a talk at the ENVEast Doctoral Training Programme about doing a PhD, career choices, and her current role at the JIC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Cereals Event 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Cereals Event talk on plant breeding technologies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Chelsea Flower Show |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 157 000 attendees at the Chelsea Flower Show had the opportunity to Engage with our research at our Silver Award Winning Exhibition at the Chelsea flower show. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://genetics.org.uk/news/centenary-garden-exhibit-at-chelsea-flower-show-2019/ |
| Description | Church Farm Open day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Open day at our field trial station |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Cibus 2018, Salone internazionale dell'alimentazione |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Cibus 2018, Salone internazionale dell'alimentazione |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Clover Seeds and CN seeds visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit to JIC from members of Clover and CN Seed to discuss current industry needs and work ongoing at JIC where there could be potential interaction. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Comparative Morphogenesis between Plants and Animals: the role of Mechanical Signals, Toutour, France |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Towards an integrated framework for computational Biomechanics The emerging field of Computational Morphodynamics aims to understand morphogenesis and development through an interdisciplinary approach involving the combination of experimental and computational methods. Data from the live imaging of growing biological tissue is analyzed in order to understand how gene expression results in cell and organ shape change. Hypotheses are formulated and then tested in simulation models, which then create predictions which can be tested experimentally. We have developed the software MorphoGraphX (www.MorphoGraphX.org) that is specialized for the quantification of cell shape change and gene expression on surface layers of cells, an abstraction inspired by simulation modeling approaches. We have found that there is considerable interaction between the methods and paradigms use for image analysis and simulation modeling. In some cases, such as the visualization of stresses, simulations are required for the quantifications. In this talk, I discuss our steps towards developing a tool that combines both aspects in one software, providing an integrated framework for computational morphodynamics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://lestreilles.hypotheses.org/3302 |
| Description | Construct build and barley transformation: training given to Aleksandra Smoczyñska and Aleksandra Grabowska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Smedley M. A., Hinchliffe A., Harwood W. A delivered 14 days training on construct build and barley transformation to Aleksandra Smoczyñska and Aleksandra Grabowska from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Core skills workshop for Bioinformatics Community of Practice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Core skills workshop for Bioinformatics Community of Practice |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | DBT-BBSRC Smart Agriculture Conclave |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | DBT-BBSRC Smart Agriculture Conclave |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | DFW Training Course: Bioinformatics Session |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | DFW Training Course: Bioinformatics Session |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Daily Mail Online |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Genetic make-up of wheat has been decoded for the first time: Scientists say it could lead to low allergy varieties and crops that need less water |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6068177/Genetic-make-wheat-decoded-time.html |
| Description | Demonstration of plant tissue culture as part of the JIC open day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On the 16th Sept, as a part of the JIc Open Day, Harwood W., Atkinson N., Hinchliffe A., Hundleby P., Hayta S., Amador M. ran a stand demonstrating plant tissue culture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Discussion Norman Lamb, MP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion Norman Lamb, MP |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Discussion on gene editing and regulations with BSPB, Royal Society, UKPSF, breeders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing and regulations with BSPB, Royal Society, UKPSF, breeders |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Discussion on gene editing with AHDB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with AHDB |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Discussion on gene editing with Mid Anglia branch of the Institute of Agricultural Management (IAgrM) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with Mid Anglia branch of the Institute of Agricultural Management (IAgrM) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Discussion on gene editing with NFU East Anglia (full membership) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with NFU East Anglia complete membership |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Discussion on gene editing with NFU East Anglia Crop Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with NFU East Anglia Crop Board |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Discussion on gene editing with NFU East Midlands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with NFU East Midlands |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Discussion on gene editing with NFU National Crops Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with NFU National Crops Board |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Discussion on gene editing with NFU National Regional Crops Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with NFU National Regional Crops Board |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Discussion on gene editing with NFU National SouthWest Regional Crops Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with NFU National SouthWest Regional Crops Board |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Discussion on gene editing with NFU South West |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with NFU South West |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Discussion on gene editing with NFU West Midlands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with NFU West Midlands |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Discussion with Gov Office Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with Gov Office Science |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Discussion with local school on application for Royal Society Partnering Award |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with Town Close School, Norwich on applying for a Royal Society Partnering Award to set up experiments at their school to address questions raised by their pupils on how environmental factors, both natural and pollutants, influence crop growth. Our discussions focused on how to design and implement experiments which would address the questions the children had and be scientifically well designed. We also discussed future interactions and finalised details to allow us to apply for a partnering award. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/blog/developing-our-future-climate-scientists/ |
| Description | Discussions at Norfolk Farming Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussions on our research programmes with the regional farming community and gaining a perspective of current priorities including research priorities for growers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Discussions with Syngenta |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussions on collaborations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Dragon Hall Debates |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Contribution to a debate on 'Should we edit Genes?' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Eastern Daily Press |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | How Norwich scientists' wheat DNA breakthrough could help feed the world |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.edp24.co.uk/business/farming/john-innes-centre-norwich-wheat-genome-1-5655948 |
| Description | Economist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Economist article on Genome Editing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2025/02/21/eat-your-ge-greens |
| Description | El Confidencial (Spain) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | El pan del futuro ya está aquí: científicos secuencian los 107.891 genes del trigo |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/ciencia/2018-08-16/secuencian-genoma-trigo-pan-futuro_1604... |
| Description | El Mundo (Spain) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | El genoma del trigo harinero ayudará a crear variedades más resistentes |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.elmundo.es/ciencia-y-salud/ciencia/2018/08/16/5b75ab13468aeb3d7e8b458b.html |
| Description | El Pais (Spain) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | El genoma del alimento que da a la humanidad una de cada cinco calorías |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/08/16/ciencia/1534414224_631189.html |
| Description | Elsoms Veg open day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Stand at the Elsoms Vegetable open day displaying the current work of JIC. Discussed many current projects with the industry members that visited the open day and trials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Elsoms seeds visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit by Elsoms seeds to discuss Speed breeding and speed cloning of disease resistance genes . Good discussions had. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Elsoms seeds visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit regarding Brassica research at JIC. Good discussion had |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Engagement with Government- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Science and Technology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Participation in debate on UK PSF report on Challenges for Plant Science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | FSA-N8 GM/GE horizon scanning workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The workshop was chaired by Prof Wendy Harwood and an introduction to genome editing provided. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Farmers Club Event London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with ministers, shadow ministers, NFU, DEFRA and other government officials on genome editing at Farmers Club London |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Farmers Weekly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Scientists apply for GM wheat and Crispr brassica field trials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.fwi.co.uk/arable/scientists-apply-for-gm-wheat-and-crispr-brassica-field-trials |
| Description | Farmers guardian - slugs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Media interview and provided help with article editing following a talk at the BCPC Pests and Beneficials conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Farming Today Interview Penny Hundleby |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview on 'New plans for gene editing' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Fera Science Symposium 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Speaker at Fera Science Symposium 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Figure generation workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Figure generation workshop for lab members |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Follow up for Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussions with industry supporting MARDI with implementation of transcriptomics and associative transcriptomics methodology |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Garnet York 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Garnet York 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Gatbsy Plant Science Students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Can wheat genomics help alleviate food insecurity? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Genoma completo del trigo augura mayor rendimiento y seguridad alimentaria al mundo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Genoma completo del trigo augura mayor rendimiento y seguridad alimentaria al mundo |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.economiaynegocios.cl/noticias/noticias.asp?id=496697 |
| Description | Genome Editing workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A project workshop was held July 11th 2019 where a series of talks were given by experts in the field and by customers of the BBR funded resource. Discussions were held on what the research community required to support crop geneome editing going forward. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | German Plant Breeding Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | German Plant Breeding Society: keynote |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Global Food Security: WORKING GROUP OF CROP BREEDERS AND CLIMATE MODELLERS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Global Food Security: WORKING GROUP OF CROP BREEDERS AND CLIMATE MODELLERS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Hybrids and Heterosis, 2 hours lecturing for University of East Anglia, Plant breeding and crop genetics MSc |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Letcures given on hybrids and heterosis to the UEA MSc students. Students were engaged and asked question during and following the lecture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | IWGSC Webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | IWGSC Webinar on new genomic tools in wheat |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | International Computation Biology Society: Africa meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | International Computation Biology Society: Africa meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | International Summit on Women in STEM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation 'From Farm to Lab and back again' for The International Summit on Women in STEM - Visualising the Future: New Skylines. New Delhi, India. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | International Undergraduate Summer School 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The International summer school provides 15 students with 8 weeks of training, invaluable insight and experience of research to undergraduates about to enter their final year of studies. Each student spends 8 weeks in a lab at either the Sainsbury Laboratory, the Earlham Institute or the John Innes Centre, all located on the Norwich Research Park working on a project that they have selected. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Interview SRF Genome Editing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview for main news report by major Swiss TV SRF. Discussion on genome editing and opportunities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/10-vor-10/video/regulierung-von-gentechnikverfahren-bei-pflanzen?urn=urn:... |
| Description | Interview article in school science magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Sam Fox was interviewed for an article in a school magazine on the 7th March 2018. The interview was about her job as a plant scientist and the route educationally she took to get into that role. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Interview for BBC radio 4 farming today |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Anna Hill from Farming today, BBC radio 4, discussing genome editing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Interview for Farming Today BBC radio 4 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview on Genome Editing for Farming Today |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000sq7b |
| Description | Interview for ITN news at 10 on Genome Editing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview and filming at JIC for ITN News at 10 covering crop genome editing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Interview for Radio 4 programme Farming Today |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview on Radio 4 Farming Today on 22/8/17. The interview centred on our publication on how a gene that has been widely used to increase crop yields by reducing plant height could actually have a hidden cost by limiting the number of flowers that can be produced, and how this hidden cost could be removed to maximise the benefits on plant yield. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Interview for Times Radio |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Live interview on gene edited foods. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Interview/article in WIRED magazine: "Mystery Solved: How Plant Cells Know When to Stop Growing" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Full article on American edition of the WIRED magazine, entitled "Mystery Solved: How Plant Cells Know When to Stop Growing", and based on our publication D'Ario et al. 2021 (Science). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.wired.com/story/mystery-solved-how-plant-cells-know-when-to-stop-growing |
| Description | Introduction to Associative Transcriptomics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ran a three day jtraining course ;on association trancriptomics for the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute. Training in how to use associative transcriptomics pipelines which are at the core of JIC brassica and BRAVO work. Dissemination of methodology. Material produced for the course has since been used to train PhD students and post-docs on the BRAVO project at JIC in how to peform AT. This has replaced face to face training. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Italian Society of Genetics (SIGA) and Plant Biology (SIBV) Joint meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Keynote at PISA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | JIC Breeders' Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented on Genome Editing at JIC Breeders' Day |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | JIC Christmas Lectures focused on climate change and climate resilient crops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Christmas lecture series with researchers involved in strategic programme research delivering presentations on their research focused on delivering climate resilient crops for alumni and stakeholders of the John Innes Centre |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | JIC Open day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | JIC Open Day |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | JIC Press Release "Heated plot experiment reveal link between warmer early winters and lower crop yields" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This press release was picked up and featured in 27 locations including BBC Radio 4 Farmers Today, Farmers Weekly, The Farmers Guardian, Farming UK, Farming Online, Eastern Daily Press and Scottish Farmer. This had an estimated online reach of 17 million people and an additional 1.6M listeners on BBC Radio 4 Farmers today. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/press-release/heated-plot-experiments-reveal-link-between-warmer-early-winters... |
| Description | JIC Science Innovation Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | JIC scientists presenting their science to invited industry/companies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | JIC Science Innovation Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Talk at JIC Science Innovation Showcase with over 100 industry representatives |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | JIC Science for Innovation Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Showcasing leading-edge science that can inspire industry, as well as 1-2-1 discussions between scientists and industry |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | JIC-CAAS joint lab meeting, Wuhan, China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visit to the Oil Crops Research Institute, CAAS, Wuhan. Meeting between collaborators to discuss current works and potential for the future. Presentation provided for staff, students and collaborators about current work at JIC. Current outcomes from my role within the collaborations are two publications over the last 3 years. Area of interest are comparable and a good relationship has been maintained over the past 15 years. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Jersey Farming Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Jersey Farming Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Jesus College, Cambridge conference on Food, Farming and Climate Change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jesus College, Cambridge conference on Food, Farming and Climate Change |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | KWS Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | KWS Lecture |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | KWS Wheat network discussions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with KWS scientist and breeders on wheat networks |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Keynote: Canadian Wheat Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Canadian Wheat Symposium |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Keynote: From Seed to Pasta III |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | From Seed to Pasta III |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | MSc course on Model to Crop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | MSc course on Model to Crop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020 |
| Description | MSc on Wheat Yield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | MSc course on Wheat Yield |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019,2020 |
| Description | Mardlers dinner discussions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A group of local landowners/farmers (the Mardlers) were invited to JIC for discussions on current research. The Mardlers regularly meet in the local area with a JIC representative being in attendance at every meeting. As an alternative this event was held onsite at JIC. Discussions were held about current research at JIC and opinions heard from both the science, farming and economic areas. Both scientist and other attendees were educated about opinions and practices. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with KWS Seeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | KWS visited JIC to discuss future collborations in seed vigour in oilseed rape. Previous porogress was reviewed and plans made to draw up tenders for new contracts were made. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Modeling Shape and Size in Biological Development, Lorenze Center, Leiden, Netherlands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Finite element modeling for experimental simulation and structural analysis in plants Richard S. Smith, Gabriella Mosca Finite element modeling has traditionally been used in engineering to simulate the behavior of man made structures such as buildings, bridges and machines under loads and stresses. It is increasingly becoming important in biology to look at mechanical behavior of cells and tissues. This workshop will focus on FEM simulation at the cellular level in plants. Plant cells are under significant turgor pressure and are surrounded by a rigid cell wall attached to their neighbors. Unlike animals that rely on a skeleton, green (non-woody) plants maintain their form as inflatable tensile structures, if the plant loses its turgor, it wilts. Despite having a rigid cell wall, plant cells are still able to grow, via carefully controlled loosening of the cell wall. In recent years there has been a resurgence in interest in the mechanical properties of the cell wall, and how it provides mechanical cues for morphogenesis. In this workshop we will present a group of finite element method (FEM) simulations used to understand the mechanical structure of plant cells and tissues, and to perform biomechnical experiments in silico. In the simplest case, since plant cells are thin walled pressure vessels, the stress in the plant cell wall is closely related to the shape and size of the cells. This means that we can use simulations to visualize an approximation of cell wall stresses in planta, which are otherwise inaccessible experimentally. This can be done using templates extracted from bioimage data, such as confocal microscopy, simplifications of such data, or with abstract geometric cellular templates. Another experiment often used to estimate the stiffness of the cell wall is osmotic treatment. By releasing turgor pressure and measuring the deformation of the cells, an estimate of the wall stiffness can be obtained if the pressure is known. The pressure can be determined by using an independent measure, such as micro-indentation (ie. Cellular Force Microscopy (CFM), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) with large tips). Finally, many studies directly measure the cell wall by excising and stretching the tissue with a device called an extensometer, where you measure the force while applying a specific deformation. In this workshop we will manipulate simulations of all of these experiments, and explore the often unintuitive nature of pressurized cellular solids (plants). The modeling software used is called MorphoMechanX (www.MorphoMechanX.org) that is closely integrated with the imaging software MorphoGraphX (www.MorphoGraphX.org). With this in mind, if any participants have fully segmented 3D stacks they would like to perform in-silico mechanical experiments on, they are welcome to bring them for the group work. "2.5" segmented projections can also be extruded into 3D for analysis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.lorentzcenter.nl/modeling-shape-and-size-in-biological-development.html |
| Description | Monogram Bioinformatics Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Monogram Bioinformatics Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Morley Farm Open Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invitation to display research outputs on Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle at the Morley Farm Open day. Attended with student conducting the research. Discussed our findings on flea beetle and other relevant aspects of our research with farmers and agronomists who were interested in relation to growing oilseed rape. Questions were raised and we were invited to collect beetles from various farms. Two way interactions allowed us to improve our working knowledge of beetles in the field and gave farmers insights into beetle lifecycle and pests helping us to inform and farmers to implement integrated pest management approaches. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://tmaf.co.uk/morley-innovation-day/ |
| Description | Morley Innovation Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Stand at Morley Innovation Day to present the current Brassica work at John Innes to the farming community and general public. Discussions held with many of the stalls visiotrs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | NBT platform meetings in Brussels |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The New Breeding Techniques Platform ('NBT Platform') is a coalition of SMEs, large industry and prominent academic and research institutes which strives to bring clarity to the European debate on New Breeding Techniques. http://www.nbtplatform.org/about-the-nbt-platform Prof. Harwood W. represented the JIC on the NBT platform at meetings in Brussels on: 21st Sept 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | NFU discussion on translation of Brassica research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited to speak to the South Norfolk NFU group about Brassica research and it's implications for the national farming community. Discussions on our research into pod shatter, flea beetle, temperature effects on oilseed rape and improving yield were well received and sparked many questions and ideas on how best to tackle some of the challenges farmers are facing growing oilseed rape. We also discussed the the technologies e.g. CRISPR we our both using and developing and how this would provide benefits in the years to come. This included a two way exchange of ideas on how best to manage their challenges and what they would find useful in our future research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | New Breeding Technologies - the case for Genome Editing invited Visit to NFU VI meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Attendance of a Meeting of the NFU Voluntary Initiative with a colleague. Networking and discussion about JIC science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | New Scientist Live event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A presentation on genome editing was contributed to the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Newspaper article - EDP How parasitic wasps could help farmers kill a problematic pest |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Newspaper article in Eastern Daily Press - Local Paper |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Norwich School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Talk on food security, genome editing and GM to pupils of Norwich School |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Norwich Science Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Engagement activities with Norwich Science Festival on how genetics influences how plants grow and plant form |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Norwich Science Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Event as part of the Norwich Science Festival on 'Thought For Food, Next Generation Thinking'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Norwich Science Festival Exhibition on Climate Change and the Battle to Save our Food |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This interactive stand at the Norwich Science Festival was held on two days, with approximately 800 participants in total. Activities encouraged children to learn through educational play how our current scientific research will help to address the challenges to food security resulting from climate change. Accompanying adults, environmental activists and concerned citizens were able to engage with JIC scientists to exchange ideas on challenges and solutions to the climate change challenge and how plant science can help address these challenges, including discussions on methods of plant breeding such as gene editing, understanding how plants and crops are responding to changes in temperature and what this will mean for yields, plant health and food availability. Participants were positive about the role of our science in developing solutions in the form of more resilient crops and children discovered some of the ways foods they eat are linked to the crops we grow and the value of becoming a scientist. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | OREGIN stakeholders and management meetings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attended OREGIN stakeholder meeting. Involved in OREGIN management commitee. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Online Course on biological image processing with MorphoGraphX |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An online course on image processing with MorphoGraphX was giving in collaboration with the German Research Group "Plant Morphodynamics". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://www.MorphoGraphX.org |
| Description | Opening Lecture Eucarpia Congress (Budapest) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Opening Lecture@ Eucarpia (Budapest) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Oxford Farming Conference talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Oxford Farming Conference talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp0QJDivWgA |
| Description | Participation in a 'Lives in Science' workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Karen Lee participated in a 'Lives in Science' workshop in a local school. During the workshop she spoke to the students about her career as a plant scientist and encouraged them to participate in interactive activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Penny Mordaunt, Secretary of State for International Development. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Penny Mordaunt, Secretary of State for International Development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Pint of Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Norwich Science Festival |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Pint of Science Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Pint of Science event at St Andrews Brew House, Norwich presenting on 'CRISPRy Crops' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Pint of Science Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Philippa Borrill gave a Pint of Science Talk entitled: 'Senescence In Wheat: A Matter Of Life And Death' in May 2018. One of the few certainties of life is that it will come to an end. But you might not think of death as being a choice. Well plants do! Dr. Philippa Borrill is uncovering the complex molecular network in wheat which governs this important decision. Wheat is probably the most important crop in the world, yet it has one of the most challenging genomes. Philippa is on the leading edge of wheat genomics and her research will have a big impact on crop yields in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/evolving-diversity-the-mechanisms-behind-evolution |
| Description | Pint of Science talk to general public |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "Watch out, it's a trap! Find out how plants evolve carnivorous structures spoiler alert - it's actually a modified leaf. " Chris Whitewoods gave a talk to the genral public on his research in the Coen Lab on the 14th May 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Pint of Science talk: 'Jumping Genes! How The Environment Influences Our Genomes' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Rebecca Mosher gave a talk entitled 'Jumping Genes! How The Environment Influences Our Genomes' as a part of Pint of Science in May 2018. "Did you feel that? I think one of your genes just jumped! Dr. Rebecca Mosher studies those jumping genes and how our cells try to keep them still. Although jumping genes can be dangerous because they cause mutations, sometimes a lucky jump can create something new and useful." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/evolving-diversity-the-mechanisms-behind-evolution |
| Description | Plant Science Deparment Seminar, University of Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Plant puzzle cell shape is an adaptation to a developmental constraint based on mechanical stress and isotropic growth Shape in an organism is often thought to be closely related to its function. The puzzle-shaped epidermal cells that appear in the epidermis of many plants are a striking example of a complex cell shape, however their functional benefit to the plant has remained elusive. We propose that the creation of these complex shapes is an effective strategy to reduce mechanical stress in the cell wall. Although the formation of these shapes requires highly anisotropic and non-uniform growth at the sub-cellular level, it appears to be triggered by isotropic growth at the organ level. A re-analysis of recently published data suggests that this constraint is conserved among the land plants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Plant Science Department Seminar University of Oxford |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Plant puzzle cell shape is an adaptation to a developmental constraint based on mechanical stress and isotropic growth The puzzle-shaped cells that appear in the epidermis of many plants are a striking example of a complex cell shape. Since shape in an organism is often thought to be closely related to its function, it suggests that these unusual shapes must have some functional benefit to the plant. We propose that the creation of these complex shapes is an effective strategy to reduce mechanical stress in the cell wall. Although the formation of these shapes requires highly anisotropic and non-uniform growth at the sub-cellular level, it appears to be triggered by isotropic growth at the organ level. Analysis of cell shape over multiple species is consistent with the idea that the puzzle is in response to a developmental constraint, and that the mechanism is like to be conserved among higher plants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Plant Synthetic Biology Conference 2022, CRAG Barcelona |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Academic conference presenting current research results. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.cragenomica.es/events/plant-synthetic-biology-conference-2022 |
| Description | Plant computational biology workshop, Lyon, France |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Plant computational biology workshop presenting research results. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://plantbiomech.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/27 |
| Description | Presentation for Beccles U3A 'GM to Gene Edited Crops' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 20 Sep 2017 Wendy Harwood gave a Presentation for Beccles U3A entitled: 'GM to Gene Edited Crops' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presnetation at agronomy farming conference - Norwich |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on the Challenges facing oilseed rape and current UK research around cabbage stem flea beetle. Approx 70-100 attendees. Good discussion follwoing talk and in break out session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Press Release - Landmark study generates first genomic atlas for worldwide wheat |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This press release was picked up by160 news outlets with an online reach of 795 million (calculated in monthly visits to the websites on which the story appeared) outlets included Mail Online and many local and regional news outlets across UK. This is because the story was picked up by the Press Association the wire used by all the regional press. The press release was also covered in the international media. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/press-release/landmark-study-generates-first-genomic-atlas-for-worldwide-wheat... |
| Description | Press Release - • A CRISPR picture emerges on European Union GMO Directive |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This press release covered publication of an in depth interpretation of the EU ruling on genome editing. 1,316 pageviews to Mar 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/news/a-crispr-picture-emerges-on-european-union-gmo-directive/ |
| Description | Press Release: Temperature resilient crops now an "achievable dream" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A press release was completed on the story and released to the John Innes Centre website with a link to collaborators and the paper. The story was also then promoted via the social media platform including Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. To promote the story further distribution platforms including 'Eurekaalert' (for a science specific audience) and 'Vuelio' (for a more general audience) were used. Own contacts were also followed up including local news reporters to ensure the paper and story was well publicised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/press-release/temperature-resilient-crops-now-an-achievable-dream/ |
| Description | Press release: "Big data harvesting tool will deliver smart farming" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A press release was completed on the story and released to the John Innes Centre website with a link to collaborators and the paper. The story was also then promoted via the social media platform including Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. To promote the story further distribution platforms including 'Eurekaalert' (for a science specific audience) and 'Vuelio' (for a more general audience) were used. Own contacts were also followed up including local news reporters to ensure the paper and story was well publicised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/news/big-data-harvesting-tool-will-deliver-smart-farming/ |
| Description | Press release: "How Capsella followed its lonely heart" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A press release was completed on the story and released to the John Innes Centre website with a link to collaborators and the paper. The story was also then promoted via the social media platform including Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. To promote the story further distribution platforms including 'Eurekaalert' (for a science specific audience) and 'Vuelio' (for a more general audience) were used. Own contacts were also followed up including local news reporters to ensure the paper and story was well publicised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/press-release/how-capsella-followed-its-lonely-heart/ |
| Description | Press release: "How Snapdragons keep their colour: signposting trick reveals evolutionary mechanism" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A press release was completed on the story and released to the John Innes Centre website with a link to collaborators and the paper. The story was also then promoted via the social media platform including Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. To promote the story further distribution platforms including 'Eurekaalert' (for a science specific audience) and 'Vuelio' (for a more general audience) were used. Own contacts were also followed up including local news reporters to ensure the paper and story was well publicised. The press release led to the following articles: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/science/snapdragons-colors-genes.html https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/environment/norwich-scientists-discovery-of-genetic-gymnastics-in-snapdragons-brings-new-insight-into-evolution-1-5294260 https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/snapdragons-spanish-pyrenees https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171116142146.htm |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/news/how-snapdragons-keep-their-colour-signposting-trick-reveals-evolutionary-... |
| Description | Press release: "How Snapdragons keep their colour: signposting trick reveals evolutionary mechanism" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A press release was completed on the story and released to the John Innes Centre website with a link to collaborators and the paper. The story was also then promoted via the social media platform including Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. To promote the story further distribution platforms including 'Eurekaalert' (for a science specific audience) and 'Vuelio' (for a more general audience) were used. Own contacts were also followed up including local news reporters to ensure the paper and story was well publicised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/news/how-snapdragons-keep-their-colour-signposting-trick-reveals-evolutionary-... |
| Description | Press release: "Leap forward in understanding plant organ growth" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A press release was completed on the story and released to the John Innes Centre website with a link to collaborators and the paper. The story was also then promoted via the social media platform including Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. To promote the story further distribution platforms including 'Eurekaalert' (for a science specific audience) and 'Vuelio' (for a more general audience) were used. Own contacts were also followed up including local news reporters to ensure the paper and story was well publicised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/press-release/new-model-is-a-leap-forward-in-understanding-plant-organ-growth/ |
| Description | Press release: "Leaves possess a molecular compass" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A press release was completed on the story and released to the John Innes Centre website with a link to collaborators and the paper. The story was also then promoted via the social media platform including Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. To promote the story further distribution platforms including 'Eurekaalert' (for a science specific audience) and 'Vuelio' (for a more general audience) were used. Own contacts were also followed up including local news reporters to ensure the paper and story was well publicised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/news/leaves-possess-a-molecular-compass/ |
| Description | Press release: "Major award recognises UK and global impact of wheat scientist" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A press release was completed on the story and released to the John Innes Centre website with a link to collaborators and the paper. The story was also then promoted via the social media platform including Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. To promote the story further distribution platforms including 'Eurekaalert' (for a science specific audience) and 'Vuelio' (for a more general audience) were used. Own contacts were also followed up including local news reporters to ensure the paper and story was well publicised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/news/major-award-recognises-uk-and-global-impact-of-wheat-scientist/ |
| Description | Press release: "Mother knows best - how plants help offspring by passing on seasonal clues" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A press release was completed on the story and released to the John Innes Centre website with a link to collaborators and the paper. The story was also then promoted via the social media platform including Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. To promote the story further distribution platforms including 'Eurekaalert' (for a science specific audience) and 'Vuelio' (for a more general audience) were used. Own contacts were also followed up including local news reporters to ensure the paper and story was well publicised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/news/mother-knows-best-how-plants-help-offspring-by-passing-on-seasonal-clues/ |
| Description | Press release: "Previously grainy wheat genome comes into focus" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A press release was completed on the story and released to the John Innes Centre website with a link to collaborators and the paper. The story was also then promoted via the social media platform including Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. To promote the story further distribution platforms including 'Eurekaalert' (for a science specific audience) and 'Vuelio' (for a more general audience) were used. Own contacts were also followed up including local news reporters to ensure the paper and story was well publicised. The press release led to the production of 85 stories (26 online, 11 association, 3 daily newspaper, 1 magazine, 1 news service, 23 news website, 20 other and 1) following the publication of her paper. The total ad value is the estimated cost of how much your coverage adds up if you took out an advert of equivalent prominence in that publication. This is: £133,518.86 to date. Monthly visits is for the online stories is worth = £1,611,830,585 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/press-release/previously-grainy-wheat-genome-comes-into-focus/ |
| Description | Press release: "Pumping Iron - Biofortified wheat produces white flour with extra iron" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A press release was completed on the story and released to the John Innes Centre website with a link to collaborators and the paper. The story was also then promoted via the social media platform including Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. To promote the story further distribution platforms including 'Eurekaalert' (for a science specific audience) and 'Vuelio' (for a more general audience) were used. Own contacts were also followed up including local news reporters to ensure the paper and story was well publicised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/press-release/pumping-iron-biofortified-wheat-produces-white-flour-with-extra-... |
| Description | Press release: "Snapdragon enters the genomic age" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A press release was completed on the story and released to the John Innes Centre website with a link to collaborators and the paper. The story was also then promoted via the social media platform including Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. To promote the story further distribution platforms including 'Eurekaalert' (for a science specific audience) and 'Vuelio' (for a more general audience) were used. Own contacts were also followed up including local news reporters to ensure the paper and story was well publicised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/press-release/snapdragon-enters-the-genomic-age/ |
| Description | Press release: "Transformed: the plant whose sex life fascinated Charles Darwin" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A press release was completed on the story and released to the John Innes Centre website with a link to collaborators and the paper. The story was also then promoted via the social media platform including Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. To promote the story further distribution platforms including 'Eurekaalert' (for a science specific audience) and 'Vuelio' (for a more general audience) were used. Own contacts were also followed up including local news reporters to ensure the paper and story was well publicised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/press-release/transformed-the-plant-whose-sex-life-fascinated-charles-darwin/ |
| Description | Prime Agriculture LLP visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit by Prime agriculture to JIC to discuss ongoing work which may be of interest to crop consultants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | RSB Plant Sciences working group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Involved in meetings of the RSB Plant Sciences working group. Regular input into RSB Plant Science development/policy on behalf of UK Brassica Research community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Rachel Lambert, Senior Livelihoods Adviser, Agriculture Research DFID |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Rachel Lambert, Senior Livelihoods Adviser, Agriculture Research DFID |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Radio Cardiff |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Radio interview for genome paper: Radio Cardiff |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.mixcloud.com/pythagoras_trousers/pythagoras-trousers-episode-421-mapping-the-wheat-genom... |
| Description | Radio Extramadura (Spain) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview in spanish regarding wheat genome sequence |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.canalextremadura.es/alacarta/radio/audios/principio-de-incertidumbre-la-secuenciacion-del... |
| Description | Radio interview- Radio 4 Farming Today |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview in the glasshouse among Brassica plants with Anna Hill from BBC Radio 4 Farming Today programme. Specifically describing the BRAVO programme with clear connections and links to the GEN ISP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Recommended list board talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit to present work on Random Impact testing to the Recommended List Board for oilseeds. Good disccussion followed and furhter work has now been completed in this area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Redburn |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Talk at Redburn investment bank |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | RichardSmithLab YouTube Channel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Youtube channel for the Smith lab, with mostly tutorial materials for MorphoGraphX. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbwp1Uz7ZZMKT_kvVhywlAQ |
| Description | Royal Society Pairing Scheme Partnered with Sabrina Roberts, Policy Lead for Genetically Modified Organisms at the Food Standards Agency |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | As part of the pairing scheme organised by the RS, Penny Hundleby paired with Sabrina Roberts for 2 days to enable us to get a better understanding of how we interact and engage with policy makers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Royal Society Yusuf Hamied for India and the UK workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation 'Crop Genome Editing with CRISPR/Cas9 - Opportunities and Challenges' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | SIGA Congress Angelo Bianchi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Over 100 attendants and discussion of new tools for wheat genomic research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | School visit (NDPS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | discussion with year 6 students on gene editing and genetics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Wheat's complex genome finally deciphered, offering hope for better harvests and nonallergenic varieties |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/wheat-s-complex-genome-finally-deciphered-offering-hope-bette... |
| Description | Science Cafe Public talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Enrico Coen and Scott Boden gave a joint Science Cafe talk entitled 'Cereals and Snapdragons' to the general public in Oct 2018 as a part of the Norwich Science Festival. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Science and Faith |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Is it ethical to oppose modern plant breeding technologies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Scientific Soft Skills workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Scientific Soft Skills workshop in Cairo |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Scientist question time at a local school |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Rebecca Horn took part in 'scientist question time' at a local primary school answering questions about what a scientists do in their jobs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Seminar Ghent Biosciences |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar Ghent Biosciences |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Seminar University of York |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar University of York |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Seminar University of Zurich |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar University of Zurich |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Sense, Science and Sustainability |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sense, Science and Sustainability: Can genome editing and agroecology co-exist in the sustainable food and farming mix? Event hosted by A Bigger Conversation (a Beyond GM initiative) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Skype interview with MSc student from Central St Martins University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Discussions and advice on carnivorous plants, our research and scientific thinking for creation of an installation exploring plants in the environment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Smithsonian magazine coverage of modelling work on how plants make leaves |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Coverage of our Science publication on understanding how leaf shape evolved through the study of carnivorous plants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/deciphering-how-plant-genes-drive-weird-wonderful-dive... |
| Description | Soapbox Science Norwich Science Festival: how plants shape their leaves |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On the 27th October 2018 Beccy Horn in the Coen Lab stood on a raised platform in Norwich City Centre and spoke to the genral public about their research that understands how the different shapes of leaves are formed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Spiegel Online |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Researchers crack wheat puzzles - and hope for fewer hunger victims |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/weizen-forscher-entschluesseln-genom-und-wollen-hunger-eind... |
| Description | Standing up for Science Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A workshop was organised by Sense about Science (Voice of Young Science) at the John Innes Centre. Contributions were made to a panel discussing Science and the Media. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Sustainable Food Trust Highgrove visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Visit to Highgrove farm organised by Patrick Holden - discussions on sustainably managed crops. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Swiss TV |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview on genome editing with Swiss TV RTS, the French-speaking Swiss public broadcaster. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | TV programme - Follow the Food |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Contribution to an episode of the series 'Follow the Food', filmed at the John Innes Centre. Focused on the use of genome editing for disease resistance. Episode 2 of series 2: Seeds of Life. Involved Dr Catherine Jacott, Prof Cristobal Uauy, Prof Wendy Harwood. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.com/reel/playlist/follow-the-food-series-2 |
| Description | Talk Aarhus |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk at Aarhus University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Talk at OREGIN meeting, York, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to breeders and academia within the UK Oilseed RapE Genetic Improvement Network |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | The Atlantic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Scientists Finally Crack Wheat's Absurdly Complex Genome |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/wheat-genome-is-best-thing-since-sliced-bread/56... |
| Description | The Economist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Revealing the wheat genome could lead to hypoallergenic bread |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/08/18/revealing-the-wheat-genome-could-lead-to... |
| Description | The Guardian |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Scientists sequence wheat genome in breakthrough once thought 'impossible' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/16/scientists-sequence-wheat-genome-in-breakthrough-onc... |
| Description | Three modules in Cambridge Plant Science undergraduate course |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Three modules in Cambridge Plant Science undergraduate course (last year course PLL1) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | Training Workshop on Wheat Genetics and Genomics in Kazakhstan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Training Workshop on Wheat Genetics and Genomics in Kazakhstan |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Training course - Targeted gene knock-outs in crops using RNA-guided Cas9. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A 3 day training course for UK researchers on CRISPR / Cas9 based genome editing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Training in "Bioinformatics to advance wheat breeding" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Training in "Bioinformatics to advance wheat breeding" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Turgrass Science Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Turgrass Science Symposium |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | UK-BRC stakeholder online meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | |Organised/Ran the UK-BRC stakeholders meeting online. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Velcourt Agronomist annual conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Velcourt Agronomist annual conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Video produced with BBSRC on Genes in the Environment ISP and Climate Change for COP26 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Video produce for BBSRC explaining how our research within the GEN Institute Strategic Programme will help to develop resilient crops, better able to cope with a changing climate. This was intended to be viewed by parliamentarians at COP26 and has since been publicised on social media through the BBSRC's media channel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRk_fyIXNIM |
| Description | Visit from Bayer Crop Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussions on SeedGerm - tracking and assessing seed germination |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Visit from Corteva and Indigro - informing on genome editing capabilities through team members |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with industry on genome editing capabilities and opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Visit of scientists from Sichuan Agricultural Universtiy as part of BBSRC partnering award. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on genome editing in crops. Also discussed plans for future collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Visit to Frontier to discuss how CRISPR could impact upon their agronomy business |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit to Frontier to discuss how CRISPR and cabbage stem flea beetle research could impact upon their agronomy business. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Visit to JIC by the Flying Farmers association |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit to the JIC by a farming group. Presentation given in an informal manner provocking discussion session. Furhte rdiscussions held over an informal lunch. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Visit to home educated students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Science discussion with home educated school children |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Wired Magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | AFTER 13 YEARS, SCIENTISTS FINALLY MAP THE MASSIVE WHEAT GENOME |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.wired.com/story/after-13-years-scientists-finally-map-the-massive-wheat-genome/ |
| Description | Women in Wheat training: enhancing your CV |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Women in Wheat training: enhancing your CV |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Women of the Future 2017 Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The 3rd Women of the Future Conference took place on Wednesday 29th November 2017. 170 young girls from 17 schools across Norfolk and Suffolk attended the unique event. The event is specifically aimed at Year 10 girls, and aims to raise aspirations, broaden horizons and facilitate engagement with world class scientists and leaders and promote careers in STEMM subjects. The lack of women in STEMM careers continues to be a real cause for concern for employers. At the John Innes Centre we are committed to promoting equality and diversity for all our staff and students and in addition recognise the importance of inspiring the next generation of female STEMM professionals. Having first been launched in 2015, this year's event built on the success of the previous two conferences, giving the participants a great chance to meet and speak with more than 27 female role models and exhibitors from a diverse range of industries. There was also fascinating line-up of speakers that included science author and presenter Dr Emily Grossman, Senior Advisor for Medical Applications at CERN Dr Manjit Dosanjh, and JIC Research Fellow Dr Philippa Borrill. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/blog/women-of-the-future-2017/ |
| Description | Women of the Future Conference 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The Women of the Future 2018 event took place with 200 girls from yr 10 (14-15 yr olds) 5 GEN female people involved: -Speakers Jemima Brinton & Mikhaela Neequaye (Jemima is a researcher in crop genetics, Mikhaela is a Phd student in food nutrition). Science Chat on the Sofa with Speakers (Auditorium) -Chaired by Samantha Fox -Closing Remarks - Samantha Fox -Meet a professional session: Mikhaela Neequaye, Natalie Wager, Jess Hughes, Penny Hundleby |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/blog/the-story-of-women-of-the-future-2018/ |
| Description | Workshop JIC-CAAS on oilseed rape |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Workshop with Chinese colleagues from Wuhan university to explore potential for collaboration and joint grant applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Year 10 Science Camp |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | We introduced year 10 science students to life as a scientist and working in our labs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/training-careers/work-experience/year-10-science-camp/ |
| Description | YouTube video created: Evolutionary Genetics of Snapdragons |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 'A Flying Visit to the Antirrhinum Hybrid Zone in the Pyrenees' Take a tour through the hybrid zone in the Pyrenees where a population of magenta Antirrhinum pseudomajus on the east meets a yellow Antirrhinum striatum population to the west and form a rainbow of hybrid flowers over a 1km stretch. Read about how our study of this region revealed how small RNA helps maintain diversity in the region. The video creates interest and communicates to the general public the research that takes place in the Coen Lab. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muP7fSn1eaE&feature=youtu.be |
| Description | YouTube video: movie explaining the relationship between growth and division in plants |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Sam Fox (Coen Lab) and Ruby O'grady in our communications team created a video explaining the relationship between growth and division in plants after a new model was published. The video had 1587 views from the JIC tweet alone on 13.03.19 and another 250 on the JIC YouTube Channel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvXBYL7WUDA |
| Description | Youth STEMM Award mid-term conference 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 80 students from 8 schools in Norfolk and Suffolk attended the Youth STEMM award mid-term conference on the 26th February 2019. There were 2 talks from John Innes Centre scientists and 10 interactive stands including the Coen Lab, who displayed a range of plants and research, explaining to the students what they do for their job. Feedback from the event indicated that 95% of those that completed a feedback form (53/80) felt the event was informative as it highlighted a range of different STEMM careers out there. 80% said the event had made them inspired to pursue a STEMM related career, or take a STEMM subject at higher education. ""This exhibit has inspired me to take a higher education level in biology or as a job." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Youth STEMM Mid Term conference 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | On the 6th March 12 schools with 146 students (aged 13-17) participated in the YSA midterm conference at the JIC Conference Centre. The event had a combination of science talks and interactive activities as a part of the STEMM showcase. The Coen lab exhibited their research on evolution, development of shape and form and genetics at the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | core skills workshop (2 days) as part of AfriPlantSci workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | core skills workshop (2 days) as part of AfriPlantSci workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | podcast Wheat Genome |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Dewing Grain podcast Wheat Genome |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.dewinggrain.co.uk/podcast-item/?id=34 |
| Description | visit to sugar beet seed technology group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | I addressed the european sugar beet seed technology working group at Germains Seeds on seed technology applications and the use of artificial intelligence in seed technology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | • EPSO-EC Conference at EXPO Milano |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | EU meeting on new breeding technologies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |