Decoding Biodiversity (DECODE): Genome Enabled Analysis Of Diversity To Identify Gene Function Biosynthetic Pathways And Variation In Agri/Aquacultural Traits
Lead Research Organisation:
Earlham Institute
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
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Technical Summary
A work package of the grant Decoding Biodiversity (DECODE) this project will use the tools we have developed to investigate biodiversity in publicly available genomes. We will use multiple analytical approaches to: assign function to genomic dark matter-genes of currently unknown function; investigate mechanisms underpinning chemical diversity in plants; and identify mechanisms driving genetic diversity in key agricultural crops and aquaculture species.
Planned Impact
unavailable
Organisations
- Earlham Institute (Collaboration, Lead Research Organisation)
- Teagasc (Collaboration)
- RAGT Seeds (Collaboration)
- Radboud University Nijmegen (Collaboration)
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Collaboration)
- ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW (Collaboration)
- CGIAR (Collaboration)
- Emorsgate Seeds (Collaboration)
- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Collaboration)
- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER (Collaboration)
- IPK Gatersleben (Collaboration)
- Tozer Seeds (Collaboration)
- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (Collaboration)
- U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (Collaboration)
- IBM (Collaboration)
- University of California, Berkeley (Collaboration)
- Syngenta International AG (Collaboration)
- JOHN INNES CENTRE (Collaboration)
- ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- National Wildflower Centre (Collaboration)
- Elsoms Seeds (Collaboration)
- Tropic Biosciences Ltd (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA (Collaboration)
Publications
Ciezarek A
(2023)
Ancient and ongoing hybridization in the Oreochromis cichlid fishes
Coombes B
(2023)
Whole-genome sequencing uncovers the structural and transcriptomic landscape of hexaploid wheat/Ambylopyrum muticum introgression lines.
in Plant biotechnology journal
Coombes B
(2024)
Introgressions lead to reference bias in wheat RNA-seq analysis.
in BMC biology
Coombes B
(2023)
Introgressions lead to reference bias in wheat RNA-Seq analysis
Etherington GJ
(2025)
High-quality genome assembly for the genetically improved Abbassa Nile tilapia enables the reconstruction of X and Y haplotypes
in BiorXiv
Garrison E
(2024)
Building pangenome graphs.
in Nature methods
Higgins J
(2024)
Characterizing subgenome recombination and chromosomal imbalances in banana varietal lineages.
in Annals of botany
| Description | Advocacy to the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | As a result of EI's evidence, the Committee's report included policy recommendations aligned to the Earlham Institute's advocacy especially on investment and skills. Since the enquiry, the Government has endorsed the role of the UK's life science sector as one of the most strategically important areas for development in the Modern Industrial Strategy. This policy will generate subsequent regulatory and investment decisions that will impact our work significantly. |
| URL | https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ldselect/ldsctech/55/5502.htm |
| Description | DEFRA's Expert Panel on Digital sequence information on genetic resources |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Recommendation submitted to COP15 |
| Description | Biodiversity, wellbeing and colour: wildflower genomics to inform the creation of new habitat |
| Amount | £20,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | DEVEGA_E22DTP1A |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 09/2026 |
| Description | Boosting innovation in breeding for the next generation of legume crops for Europe |
| Amount | £368,936 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 10077978 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2023 |
| End | 02/2028 |
| Description | Characterising Rice Genetic Diversity of the Past to Safeguard the Future |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 2869278 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2023 |
| End | 09/2027 |
| Description | Connecting Research Culture Conference |
| Amount | £59,558 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2024 |
| End | 05/2025 |
| Description | Data science to feed a changing world: superior drought tolerance in nutritious traditional beans |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 2578607 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2021 |
| End | 09/2025 |
| Description | EBioAct: Environmentally sustainable production of bioactive triterpenes |
| Amount | £1,680,889 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/Y007751/1 |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2024 |
| End | 02/2026 |
| Description | Earlham Institute and Tozer Seeds Limited KTP 23_24 R5 |
| Amount | £176,013 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 10102570 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2024 |
| End | 02/2027 |
| Description | Engineering gene regulation in plants to yield predictable expression |
| Amount | £772,877 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | APP36048 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2025 |
| End | 04/2028 |
| Description | Global Center: International Research Center for Enhancing Plant Resilience |
| Amount | £2,124,544 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | APP41752 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2025 |
| End | 04/2030 |
| Description | John Innes Foundation internship in data-driven plant bioinformatics |
| Amount | £38,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | John Innes Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 08/2023 |
| Description | Leverage Yellow Common Bean Native Variety Liborino as a bioproduct for the sustainable and peaceful socioeconomic development of the rural communities in Colombia |
| Amount | £49,852 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 527023146 |
| Organisation | British Council |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 10/2021 |
| Description | Lucky and resilient: Genomic improvement of cold tolerance in red and white clover |
| Amount | £125,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 2929096 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2024 |
| End | 09/2028 |
| Description | Safeguarding UK's best-loved fruit: immunity diversity in banana cultivars |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 2586708 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2021 |
| End | 09/2025 |
| Description | Undergraduate (sandwich) Internship (12 months) |
| Amount | £22,924 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2023 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Title | Adaptation of pruning pipeline |
| Description | We adapted the pruning algorithm designed by Zhang et al., 2018 in their software AllHiC to be used with OmniC data |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Enabled us to create our genome assembly and the method will be published |
| Title | Annotated Genome assembly |
| Description | The first haplotype aware assembly of the teatraploid Urochloa decumbens |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Collaborations with Embrapa and CIAT. Increase skills in institute. Knowledge about species. Development of pipelines. |
| Title | Functional annotation for the Abbassa genome assembly |
| Description | Functional annotation for the Abbassa genome assembly |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | na |
| Title | Fusarium Pan-Annotations: improved individual and collective genome annotations |
| Description | A 'pan-annotation' of genomes from 77 taxa (83 accessions) across the genus Fusarium, delivered as part of the Earlham Institute Strategic Programme Grant 'Decoding Biodiversity' (BBSRC). Manuscript and annotation workflow tutorial in prep. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | -Establishment of effective 'pan-annotation' reannotation workflow -Improved annotation quality both individually and collectively for Fusarium genomes -Detection of different rates of alternative splicing across Fusarium species complexes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13829922 |
| Title | Fusarium Pan-Annotations: improved individual and collective genome annotations |
| Description | A 'pan-annotation' of genomes from 77 taxa (83 accessions) across the genus Fusarium, delivered as part of the Earlham Institute Strategic Programme Grant 'Decoding Biodiversity' (BBSRC). Manuscript and annotation workflow tutorial in prep. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13829921 |
| Title | MxG transcriptomic response to drought and flooding PRJEB86745 |
| Description | 105 RNAseq libraries exploring the transcriptomic response of Miscanthus x giganteus to early or late drought and flooding stresses on controlled conditions. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Collaboration between IBERS and EI demonstrates the complementary skills of both institutes. This project fits into the interest on expression dynamics on hybrid allopolyploids. The results will help design biomarkers, better understand the biology of the commercial Mxg cultivar, and feed into future research on stress priming and epigenetics. |
| URL | https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/view/PRJEB86745 |
| Title | Pipeline to phasing and scaffolding heterozygous outcrossed polyploid and diploid genomes based on pruning Hi-C data |
| Description | The major problem of scaffolding polyploid genome is that Hi-C signals are frequently detected between allelic haplotypes and any existing stat of art Hi-C scaffolding program links the allelic haplotypes together. To solve the problem, we developed a new Hi-C scaffolding pipeline tailored to the polyploid genomes and tested it to anchor the tetraploid genome of Brachiaria decumbens cv. Basilisks that we previously sequenced with HiFI. We also generated Hi-C reads for the red clover cultivar cv. Milvus that we sequenced using HiFi reads in a previous funding scheme. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The major problem of scaffolding polyploid genome is that Hi-C signals are frequently detected between allelic haplotypes and any existing stat of art Hi-C scaffolding program links the allelic haplotypes together. To solve the problem, we developed a new Hi-C scaffolding pipeline tailored to the polyploid genomes and tested it to anchor the tetraploid genome of Brachiaria decumbens cv. Basilisks that we previously sequenced with HiFI. We also generated Hi-C reads for the red clover cultivar cv. Milvus that we sequenced using HiFi reads in a previous funding scheme. |
| Title | Sequencing data for the genome assembly and annotation of the Nile tilapia Abbassa elite strain |
| Description | Sequencing data for the genome assembly and annotation of the Nile tilapia Abbassa elite strain |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | na |
| URL | https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/view/PRJEB57170 |
| Title | Tilapia genetic diversity across the Lake Victoria Basin |
| Description | Genotypes for Oreochromis niloticus, O. leucosticus, O. variabilis, O. esculentus, Coptodon rendalli, C. zillii collected in water bodies in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda within the Lake Victoria Basin. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | na |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11193181 |
| Description | Anti-inflammatory properties of plant natural products |
| Organisation | University of East Anglia |
| Department | Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine UEA |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Identification and production of plant extracts and natural products with proposed anti-inflammatory activity. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Testing the anti-inflammatory activities of plant natural products in human cell lines |
| Impact | Data on the anti-inflammatory activities of plant natural products. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CIAT and EMBRAPA: Understanding genomics of Urochloa |
| Organisation | Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation |
| Department | Embrapa Cerrados |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We assembled and annotated a high quality genome of the polyploid Urochloa decumbens which can be used to by our collaborators to identify genes and markers relevant for breeding. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided us with data from another Urochloa species so we could explore and understand the ancestry of Urochloa decumbens |
| Impact | Outcome is we have added to the knowledge of the community by understanding the ancestry of Urochloa decumbens and identifying structural rearrangements that will contribute to our understanding of this forage species and its traits. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | CIAT and EMBRAPA: Understanding genomics of Urochloa |
| Organisation | Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation |
| Department | Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We assembled and annotated a high quality genome of the polyploid Urochloa decumbens which can be used to by our collaborators to identify genes and markers relevant for breeding. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided us with data from another Urochloa species so we could explore and understand the ancestry of Urochloa decumbens |
| Impact | Outcome is we have added to the knowledge of the community by understanding the ancestry of Urochloa decumbens and identifying structural rearrangements that will contribute to our understanding of this forage species and its traits. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | CIAT and EMBRAPA: Understanding genomics of Urochloa |
| Organisation | CGIAR |
| Department | International Center for Tropical Agriculture |
| Country | Colombia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We assembled and annotated a high quality genome of the polyploid Urochloa decumbens which can be used to by our collaborators to identify genes and markers relevant for breeding. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided us with data from another Urochloa species so we could explore and understand the ancestry of Urochloa decumbens |
| Impact | Outcome is we have added to the knowledge of the community by understanding the ancestry of Urochloa decumbens and identifying structural rearrangements that will contribute to our understanding of this forage species and its traits. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration between ISPs: DECODE and Resilient Crops (monthly meeting) |
| Organisation | Aberystwyth University |
| Department | Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Monthly online meeting between staff and students between both institutes working in IBERS' WP4 or EI's WP2 ISP objectives. There were kick-off visits to both IBERS and EI from the respective ISP leads. EI hosted IBERS' ISP PI (KF) during a 3 day visit. We agreed shoared objectives on clovers, ryegrass, Miscanthus and oats pangenomics that reuse tools and knowhow generated in DECODE. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Monthly online meeting between staff and students between both institutes working in IBERS' WP4 or EI's WP2 ISP. We hosted IBERS' ISP PI (KF) during a 3 days visit, and agreed a follow-up visit to identify further areas of coordination between both ISPs. |
| Impact | TBD |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration with Elsoms Group (CASE - CD) - Understanding variation in flowering-related traits among commercially important Apiaceae herb species. |
| Organisation | Elsoms Seeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Expertise and Know-How in marker discovery for plant breeding. Expertise and Know-How in identification of genetic diversity across large biological collections. Expertise and Know-How in sequencing and bioinformatics analysis of plant genomes. Knowledge and expertise in genebanks and genotyping orphan crops. Computational and bioinformatics expertise and best practice. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Plant material and breeding knowhow for Apiaceae herb species |
| Impact | CASE Studentship agreement. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Collaboration with IBM Research, STFC, and RAGT - HNCDI Excelerate |
| Organisation | IBM |
| Department | IBM Research in the UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Earlham is contributing by genomic data for 27 UK wheat varieties and wheat pan-transcriptome data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | IBM will design, develop, and test the bioinformatic workflow to enable processing of genomic and developing statistical and ML predictions of potential useful genetic variation and markers for valuable agricultural traits. RAGT brings expertise in plan breeding. STFC Hartree Centre brings expertise in supercomputing, data science and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for enhanced productivity, smarter innovation and economic growth. |
| Impact | No outputs or outcomes yet. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration with IBM Research, STFC, and RAGT - HNCDI Excelerate |
| Organisation | RAGT Seeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Earlham is contributing by genomic data for 27 UK wheat varieties and wheat pan-transcriptome data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | IBM will design, develop, and test the bioinformatic workflow to enable processing of genomic and developing statistical and ML predictions of potential useful genetic variation and markers for valuable agricultural traits. RAGT brings expertise in plan breeding. STFC Hartree Centre brings expertise in supercomputing, data science and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for enhanced productivity, smarter innovation and economic growth. |
| Impact | No outputs or outcomes yet. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration with Syngenta Crop Protection R&D |
| Organisation | Syngenta International AG |
| Department | Syngenta Crop Protection |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | TBA |
| Collaborator Contribution | TBA |
| Impact | TBA |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Collaboration with data management working group (Lars-Otto Gernot and Ivo Rieu) for Legume Generation |
| Organisation | IPK Gatersleben |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We have worked together to establish best data management practices within the legume generation project, e.g. crop and gene ontologies, and to standardise procedures across multiple partners. WE are working with BELIS to maintain these standards between projects. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They have assisted in maintaining standards at other partner institutes and providing input to us in ways to standardise procedures |
| Impact | We have worked together to establish best data management practices within the legume generation project, e.g. crop and gene ontologies, and to standardise procedures across multiple partners. WE are working with BELIS to maintain these standards between projects. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Collaboration with data management working group (Lars-Otto Gernot and Ivo Rieu) for Legume Generation |
| Organisation | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have worked together to establish best data management practices within the legume generation project, e.g. crop and gene ontologies, and to standardise procedures across multiple partners. WE are working with BELIS to maintain these standards between projects. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They have assisted in maintaining standards at other partner institutes and providing input to us in ways to standardise procedures |
| Impact | We have worked together to establish best data management practices within the legume generation project, e.g. crop and gene ontologies, and to standardise procedures across multiple partners. WE are working with BELIS to maintain these standards between projects. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Collaboration with wildflower seed companies |
| Organisation | Emorsgate Seeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Current work is being done under the Wildflower PhD to investigate the biological effects of the seed production process, this would potentially provide more seed samples to expand the work. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Ongoing discussions about future access to seed samples. |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Collaboration with wildflower seed companies |
| Organisation | National Wildflower Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Current work is being done under the Wildflower PhD to investigate the biological effects of the seed production process, this would potentially provide more seed samples to expand the work. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Ongoing discussions about future access to seed samples. |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Emorsgate seed production life-cycle project |
| Organisation | Emorsgate Seeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We are sampling from multi-generation seed pedigrees to characterise the effect of their bulking process on genetic diversity. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partner are providing expertise in native seed production and access to their seed production database in addition to corresponding seed material from cold storage. We were invited for a tour of their facilities and have discussed the aims of the research project to identify pedigree lines of scientific interest. |
| Impact | We are just at the stage of receiving seed lots that have been selected for analysis. No results to report currently. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Engineering triterpene production |
| Organisation | John Innes Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Expertise and methods in genome editing and pathway enginering. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in the detection of triterpenoids. |
| Impact | Collaborative grants funded: "21EBTA specialised metabolism and new cellular architectures in plants" + "EBioAct: Environmentally sustainable production of bioactive triterpenes" |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | FTMA GRIT team in Sanger Insitute |
| Organisation | The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | This was mainly a training residential stay to learn how to use their pipelines and benefit from their expertise so currently we have not made a contribution to them. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Spent a week learning how to use their pipelines and benefiting from their expertise by being taught how to perform manual curation in order to produce high quality genome assemblies. |
| Impact | High quality chromosome level haplotype aware genome assembly of Urochloa decumbens. Learning how to use GRIT curation teams pipeline and how to manually curate genomes using HiC data. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Improving breeding of Urochloa and understanding genus |
| Organisation | University of Leicester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contributed expertise and will contribute data reads and assemby for Urochloa |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise |
| Impact | Currently exchange of expertise - collab very recent. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Miscanthus genome, pangenome |
| Organisation | Earlham Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Miscanthus sacchariflorus genome sequence, Miscanthus RNAseq data |
| Collaborator Contribution | Miscanthus sinensis genome sequence (https://phytozome.jgi.doe.gov/pz/portal.html#!info?alias=Org_Msinensis_er), Miscanthus RNAseq data, Miscanthus molecular markers |
| Impact | Mitros et al. Genome biology of the paleotetraploid perennial biomass crop Miscanthus. Nat Commun 11, 5442 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18923-6 De Vega J, Donnison I, Dyer S, Farrar K. Draft genome assembly of the biofuel grass crop Miscanthus sacchariflorus. F1000Res. 2021 Jan 18;10:29. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.44714.1. PMID: 33732433; PMCID: PMC7921889. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Miscanthus genome, pangenome |
| Organisation | HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Miscanthus sacchariflorus genome sequence, Miscanthus RNAseq data |
| Collaborator Contribution | Miscanthus sinensis genome sequence (https://phytozome.jgi.doe.gov/pz/portal.html#!info?alias=Org_Msinensis_er), Miscanthus RNAseq data, Miscanthus molecular markers |
| Impact | Mitros et al. Genome biology of the paleotetraploid perennial biomass crop Miscanthus. Nat Commun 11, 5442 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18923-6 De Vega J, Donnison I, Dyer S, Farrar K. Draft genome assembly of the biofuel grass crop Miscanthus sacchariflorus. F1000Res. 2021 Jan 18;10:29. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.44714.1. PMID: 33732433; PMCID: PMC7921889. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Miscanthus genome, pangenome |
| Organisation | Teagasc |
| Country | Ireland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Miscanthus sacchariflorus genome sequence, Miscanthus RNAseq data |
| Collaborator Contribution | Miscanthus sinensis genome sequence (https://phytozome.jgi.doe.gov/pz/portal.html#!info?alias=Org_Msinensis_er), Miscanthus RNAseq data, Miscanthus molecular markers |
| Impact | Mitros et al. Genome biology of the paleotetraploid perennial biomass crop Miscanthus. Nat Commun 11, 5442 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18923-6 De Vega J, Donnison I, Dyer S, Farrar K. Draft genome assembly of the biofuel grass crop Miscanthus sacchariflorus. F1000Res. 2021 Jan 18;10:29. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.44714.1. PMID: 33732433; PMCID: PMC7921889. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Miscanthus genome, pangenome |
| Organisation | U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Miscanthus sacchariflorus genome sequence, Miscanthus RNAseq data |
| Collaborator Contribution | Miscanthus sinensis genome sequence (https://phytozome.jgi.doe.gov/pz/portal.html#!info?alias=Org_Msinensis_er), Miscanthus RNAseq data, Miscanthus molecular markers |
| Impact | Mitros et al. Genome biology of the paleotetraploid perennial biomass crop Miscanthus. Nat Commun 11, 5442 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18923-6 De Vega J, Donnison I, Dyer S, Farrar K. Draft genome assembly of the biofuel grass crop Miscanthus sacchariflorus. F1000Res. 2021 Jan 18;10:29. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.44714.1. PMID: 33732433; PMCID: PMC7921889. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Miscanthus genome, pangenome |
| Organisation | University of California, Berkeley |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Miscanthus sacchariflorus genome sequence, Miscanthus RNAseq data |
| Collaborator Contribution | Miscanthus sinensis genome sequence (https://phytozome.jgi.doe.gov/pz/portal.html#!info?alias=Org_Msinensis_er), Miscanthus RNAseq data, Miscanthus molecular markers |
| Impact | Mitros et al. Genome biology of the paleotetraploid perennial biomass crop Miscanthus. Nat Commun 11, 5442 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18923-6 De Vega J, Donnison I, Dyer S, Farrar K. Draft genome assembly of the biofuel grass crop Miscanthus sacchariflorus. F1000Res. 2021 Jan 18;10:29. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.44714.1. PMID: 33732433; PMCID: PMC7921889. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Miscanthus genome, pangenome |
| Organisation | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Miscanthus sacchariflorus genome sequence, Miscanthus RNAseq data |
| Collaborator Contribution | Miscanthus sinensis genome sequence (https://phytozome.jgi.doe.gov/pz/portal.html#!info?alias=Org_Msinensis_er), Miscanthus RNAseq data, Miscanthus molecular markers |
| Impact | Mitros et al. Genome biology of the paleotetraploid perennial biomass crop Miscanthus. Nat Commun 11, 5442 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18923-6 De Vega J, Donnison I, Dyer S, Farrar K. Draft genome assembly of the biofuel grass crop Miscanthus sacchariflorus. F1000Res. 2021 Jan 18;10:29. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.44714.1. PMID: 33732433; PMCID: PMC7921889. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | RBG Kew |
| Organisation | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Joint PhD studentship |
| Collaborator Contribution | Joint PhD studentship |
| Impact | Joint PhD studentship |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | RGBKew - EI fonio reference genome |
| Organisation | Earlham Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We characterise and provide materials for generation of genomic data (HiFi and Omni-C) for black fonio species. We provide staff time to analyse the data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | EI will optimise methodologies for black fonio and generate data for RBGKew materials. EI will advise on data processing and analyses. |
| Impact | Collaboration agreement. Short read data sequencing data for black fonio. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Syngenta collaboration |
| Organisation | Syngenta International AG |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Facilitating regular meetings between EI and Syngenta researchers to develop 2 new collaborative projects. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attended industry Seminar. Arranged introduction to further teams at Syngenta. |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Tozer Seeds Knowledge Transfer Partnership |
| Organisation | Tozer Seeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Develop a project idea for a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with Tozer Seeds, management of the application process and negotiation of IP and terms. The KTP will help Tozer to develop internal capacity to analyse genomic data for accelerated breeding. This collaboration began as a service provided by NBRI1 and JV in 2022, after which the BDI team assisted in developing it further into the KTP. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Tozer co-applied for KTP with EI and will be providing funding and in-kind support. |
| Impact | Application for a KTP submitted in November 2023. Earlham Institute gaining status as a KTN Knowledge Base. KTP was funded and started in July 2024 and will run till December 2026 (30 months) |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Tropic |
| Organisation | Tropic Biosciences Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We continue our collaboration with the biotech company Tropic related to their interest in improving copy number variation screening in order to further improve quality control in precision breeding of clonally propagated crops, such as banana. We contributed - Oxford Nanopore genome and epigenome sequencing Protocol and the variation analysis pipeline |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in banana cell biology, tissue culture, micropropagation and production, samples of proprietary elite banana embryogenic cell lines developed at Tropic, expertise in genomic/bioinformatic analysis |
| Impact | Oxford Nanopore genome and epigenome sequencing Protocols New datasets |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Title | Software Architectural Design of COPO |
| Description | I have been responsible for the overall design and delivery of many new features in COPO over the past 12 months. Please see recent software output entries for further details. |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | The overall growth of COPO as a service |
| Description | A method for assembling the genome of a non-model organism |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We supported Dr Camilla Ryan in writing a technical led blog about her methods for assembling the genome of a non-model organism, supporting the Decoding Biodiversity research programme (WP2). As part of the technical series this received good level of readership and engagement online. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.earlham.ac.uk/articles/method-assembling-genome-non-model-organism |
| Description | A presentation on natural product drug discovery and bioactive molecules (including DECODE Asteraceae research) was delivered to a group of students from Colby College, USA. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Increased interest and awareness of the role of bioactive molecules from plants and technologies to source these, which stimulated questions and discussion on the subject. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | A talk was given on natural product drug discovery and bioactive molecules (including DECODE Asteraceae research) to a group of Chief Medical Officers from a range of international companies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Increased interest and awareness of the role of bioactive molecules from plants and advanced technologies to sustainably source these, which stimulated questions and discussion on the subject. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Agri-Tech E REAP conference 2023 (09/11/2023) |
| 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 | Attended Agri-Tech E's annual event REAP and took researchers from the DECODE and CELLGEN ISPs. Set up an EI exhibition stand, assisted JA with his talk and assisting with networking on the day. The exhibition stand was comprised of talking points to showcase the EI researchers and their work attending Agri-Tech E. This included: - a lego sequencer to demonstrate the genomics work being undertaken in clonal crops in DECODE and forage crops in CELLGEN, and how sequencing is carried out by NBRI1 - a basket of clonal crops being researched in DECODE - wheat seedlings from lines being researched in DECODE - a short presentation to compliment JA's talk, demonstrating how image analysis is used to determine diversity of seed packets |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/microsite-page/reap-2023/ |
| Description | Attendance at Biocuration 2023 |
| 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 | Attended conference to network and find out latest developments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Big Data Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Gave talk on data management to PhD students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Biofair Roadshow EI |
| 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 | Contributed thoughts to fact finding workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | British Herbs Association Technical Meeting Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A BBSRC-iCASE PhD project update and plan talk to the British Herbs Association. This group consists primarily of growers and agronomists, but is also attended by breeders and other stakeholders. 15 minute presentation, follow-up questions and a networking lunch. Primary objective was to get feedback from growers on traits of interest for the project. Also to open a dialogue with British Herbs regarding closer involvement in the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Building capacity and resources for genomic prediction in forage grass and legume breeding |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The workshop brought together a diverse group of researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders to exchange information and foster collaboration in the vital field of forage research. The project integrated experts from Earlham Institute in the UK and Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT who collaborate on the application of genomic tools into the Tropical Forages breeding program. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/170303 |
| Description | Characterising gene function research project page |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Published a research project page detailing aims and activities from WP2 of Decoding Biodiversity research programme. The page is used for signposting people to more information about the work package. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
| URL | https://www.earlham.ac.uk/research-project/characterising-gene-function-biosynthetic-pathways-and-va... |
| Description | DBT Agri-Tech Investment Specialist visit to Norwich Research Park (06/02/2024) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A member from each NBI gave an introductory talk to the specialist on agri-tech development at their institute, to give the specialist an understanding of the research ongoing on the park. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | DSW Annual Meeting |
| 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 | Coordinated a science showcase entitled 'Cutting-edge wheat and pathogen (pan) genomics' at the annual DSW all-hands meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Digital Twins in bioscience, environmental and medical science |
| 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 | Digital twins (DT) and their application are an area of growing interest within the bioscience, environmental and medical science research and innovation community. BBSRC, NERC, MRC and DTNet+ jointly ran a hybrid community workshop focussed on digital twins in bioscience, environmental and medical science on Wednesday 18 September 2024 at Rothamsted Conference Centre. The event aimed to create a better shared understanding of the DT landscape as it relates to the bioscience, environmental and medical science research and innovation communities, including better insights into the discipline-specific opportunities and challenges together with opportunities to network as a community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://engagementhub.ukri.org/bbsrc-research-strategy-and-programmes/digital-twins-workshop/ |
| Description | EI Innovate 2023 |
| 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 | A presentation by Dr Melissa Salmon at EI Innovate, an event for knowledge exchange between academics and industry, about the discovery of bioactive metabolites from UK flora and methods for their bioproduction. This was followed by a number of questions and discussion with Dr. Salmon. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | EI Innovate annual stakeholder engagement event |
| 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 | EI Innovate is an annual engagement event that provides insight into the Earlham Institute's research, exploring opportunities for innovation and collaboration. Specialising in agri-food, biotech, med-tech and public health, we have a wealth of experience collaborating with others to develop potential solutions to urgent industrial and societal challenges. EI Innovate events foster exciting and valuable conversations between academia and industry. An example of an exciting collaboration that resulted from a previous EI Innovate is the Hybrid Wheat Initiative, which connects 25 breeding companies and research institutes worldwide, to resolve the critical challenge of hybrid wheat. In 2023, we showcased our two new strategic programmes of research - Cellular Genomics and Decoding Biodiversity - and two National Bioscience Research Infrastructures (NBRIs) - Transformative Genomics and the Earlham Biofoundry. The programme included talks about Earlham expertise and capabilities, examples of collaborations, panel discussions, Innovation Showcase, exhibition, tours of the two National Bioscience Research Infrastructures (NBRIs) - Transformative Genomics and the Earlham Biofoundry, and networking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020,2021,2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.earlham.ac.uk/events/ei-innovate-2023 |
| Description | EI Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave EI seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | ERGA data management training (Poland) |
| 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 | Gave talk about data management and COPO along with reps from ENA at a workshop in Poland |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Elected to Royal Norfolk Agricultural Agricultural Association Council |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The RNAA Council is a volunteer body and has supervisory control over both the property and the general policy of the Association. It provides a useful check and balance to the strategic direction of the Association. Council comprises up to 48 elected members and meets twice a year, usually in the Spring and Autumn. Council members are expected to take an active interest in the development of the Association. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Elixir UK all hands - Norwich |
| 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 | Engaged in networking group discussions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Elixir UK all-hands |
| 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 | Took part in various sessions and a poster session at this UK based meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Elixir all-hands Dublin 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented a poster, and had discussion regarding development of ROCrate which led to several hackathons. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Elixir all-hands Uppsalla |
| 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 2 posters at all-hands meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Equitable Practise in Evolution Training - Applying the Equity Compass |
| 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 | This course helped me to reflect on and develop equitable and inclusive practice. It involved two in-person sessions (13 February 2024 & 13 March 2024) at the Earlham Institute to introduce The Equity Compass, a tool to address ongoing inequalities in STEM communication. These sessions were supported by a three-week online/self-motivated course via FutureLearn. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | FLF Development Network - Crucible |
| 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 | An interdisciplinary, cross-sector event that fosters collaborations between researchers and innovators on the Pathways FLF Development Network program. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | FLF Development Network - Crucible in Cardiff 21-22 March 2024 |
| 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 | An interdisciplinary, cross-sector event that fosters collaborations between researchers and innovators on the Pathways FLF Development Network program. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | FLF Development Network - Leadership Retreat |
| 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 Pathways FLF Development event to give insights into navigating the process of leading research and innovation programmes, and managing teams. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | FTMA visit of WorldFish at EI and training of partners from the Lake Victoria Fisheries Organisation |
| 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 | Meeting at the Earlham Institute with WorldFish researchers to develop the report for the Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization to inform policy development for the sustainable exploitation of tilapia. Training of representatives from Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania on the bioinformatics for population genetics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Genetic integrity needed for Biodiversity Net Gain to flower |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | An article with PhD researcher Jonathan Ashworth, discussing his work in biodiversity genomics of wildflower seeds, and the link to Biodiversity Net Gain. This gained a huge amount of engagement online, and led to interested collaborators reaching out to Jose and Jonathan, and further work with the Business Development and Impact team signing agreements to work together. The Eden project (collaborators on the research) also reached out to ask to include it in their membership magazine. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.earlham.ac.uk/articles/genetic-integrity-needed-biodiversity-net-gain-flower |
| Description | Genomic resources to help boost climate resilience of fisheries |
| 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We issued a press release on new research around genomic resources for aquaculture breeders, which could support the development of greater resilience. The story had almost 5,000 impressions and around 75 engagements on social media, including from accounts for people and partners based outside the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.earlham.ac.uk/news/genomic-resources-help-boost-climate-resilience-fisheries |
| Description | IBERS visit |
| 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 group of EI staff visited IBERS in Aberystwyth from 19-21 July 2023 (Jose De Vega, Anthony Hall, Seanna McTaggart, Camilla Ryan, Christine Fosker) to discuss the DECODE ISP, find opportunties for collaboration and tour IBERS and the biorefinery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | ISP all hands meetings FTMA4 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | ISP all hands meeting allow the interaction amongst all the work package members. In addition to project and impact progress updates, workshops are held to drive discussion in areas such as IDEA, policy impact, futher funding opportunities and more. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
| Description | Image Processing Carpentries |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Devlivered Training |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited talk Syngenta |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of work on Pangenomes and work within DECODE Title:Why one genome just isn't enough: How multiple wheat genomes are changing our understanding of plant evolution. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited to participate in Royal Society 'Transforming Our Future' workshop, 'Innovating Agriculture' |
| 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 | This meeting explored the agricultural science and innovation that is transforming the future of food and farming to meet rising production and environmental demands. The agricultural sector needs to meet the challenge of producing more food to meet rising demand whilst also achieving environmental targets. This two-day conference examined the science and innovation aiming to transform the future of food and farming. The event brought together stakeholders from across industry, academia, government and the wider agricultural community to address three key areas: increasing sustainable yields, improving input efficiency and developing novel food production systems. Panel discussions considered how best to support and fund innovation in food and agriculture, and how to accelerate translation and take-up of new ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2024/06/agriculture-tof/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cjw... |
| Description | Key tilapia genome offers boost to global food security - Tarang Mehta, Graham Etherington, Will Nash, Adam Ciezarek |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | News story to highlight a new publication from EI researchers on reference genome for a key aquaculture species, designed to reach breeders, industry, and academics working in this space. Positive trade media coverage, as well as promotion from project collaborators, helped this news to reach a wide audience and enhance EI's reputation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.earlham.ac.uk/news/key-tilapia-genome-offers-boost-global-food-security |
| Description | Keynote, UK Legume Conference 2024; "Adaptations and admixture in common bean and genomics for breeding" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Keynote speaker in the Genomics and Genetics session of the UK Legume Conference in Reading, 14-15 Feb 2024 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://uklrc.org/uklrc2024/ |
| Description | Lecture delivered on natural product drug discovery and bioactive molecules (including DECODE Asteraceae research) for the RBG Kew / Royal Holloway University of London MSc titled 'Global Health: Food security, Sustainability and Biodiversity' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Increased interest and awareness of the role of bioactive molecules from plants and advanced technologies to source these, which stimulated questions and discussion on the subject. Students expressed interest in applying for MSc projects on this topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Meeting with Prof Gideon Henderson, DEFRA Chief Scientific Adviser |
| 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 | Prof Gideon Henderson visited the Earlham Institute and discussed a range of DEFRA related research activity and innovation. He invited EI to have follow up engagement with DEFRA officials leading relevant policy and regulatory work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Meeting with the UK Science & Innovation team from the UK Embassy in Mexico |
| 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 | The Science & Innovation Network (SIN) in Mexico works to encourage strategic relationships with local and national government and academic institutions between the UK and Mexico. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Monogram |
| 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 Monogram Network consists of UK based researchers with an active interest in small grain cereal and grass (including the C4 energy grasses) research. I attended the annual conference at the University of Reading with Jon Wright, Anthony Hall, Lucy Mahony. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Multigenome Brassica Project (MGBP) Steering Committee Meeting |
| 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 | Attended Annual MGBP Steering Committee meeting at PAG30 to discuss future opportunities to work together. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Oral Presentation - Regulatory networks evolution underlying the rapid diversification of cichlids fishes in the Great African Lakes - Tarang Mehta |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation at the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Annual Meeting (Ferrara Italy) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.smbe2023.org/ |
| Description | PAG Talk 2024- Wheat Genomics to Breeding session |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sequencing, assembling and annotating key cultivars and representatives of 7 wheat sub-populations Wheat diversity can be split into 7 subpopulations. Here I will give an update on work as part of the Design Sustainable Wheat programme to sequencing, assembly and annotating these. How these and other data sets can be added to improve the utility of existing data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | PAG2024 Trticeae Genetics and Genomics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Title: Using pangenomes in Anger to Reduce reference bias in transcriptomic experiments |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | PCA Core Network Participant Meeting (CPN) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Made connections and panned for future grant submission. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Pan-European project generates genomes showcasing continent's rich biodiversity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A news story supporting the European Reference Genome Atlas Pilot Project. The story showcases the success of the pilot project and highlights the wide-ranging involvement from the Earlham Institute including the Technical Genomics, Haerty, Anthony Hall, and Neil Hall Groups, as well as the role of the National Bioscience Research Infrastructure in Transformative Genomics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.earlham.ac.uk/news/pan-european-project-generates-genomes-showcasing-continents-rich-bio... |
| Description | Pan-Pooideae Meeting at PAG32 |
| 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 | Workshop at PAG32 to discuss the international Pan-Pooideae network. Overview of current research proposals and plans for next meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Pint of Science 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by PhD student in Norwich as part of the National Pint of Science Festival 2023 followed by questions and discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Plant Animal Genome Conference, San Diego |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented a poster on 'Identifying Consensus and Cultivar-Specific Gene Networks within the Wheat Pan-Transcriptome'. Attended with Anthony Hall, Jon Wright (poster on A High-Quality Genome of Paragon: A Keystone for UK Wheat Breeding), Lucy Mahony (poster on Decoding the Regulatory Regions of Wheat). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Plant Pangenome Working Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The aim of this group is to bring together a small group of researchers with overlapping expertise in wheat genomics and pangenome architecture to identify possible strategies and approaches that will enable a high resolution pangenome reference for the wheat community. We held an initial meeting at PAG32 in SanDiego, Jan 2025 to gauge interest, exchange experiences and plan further virtual meetings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Presentation at 2025 Legume Research Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I delivered a 10 minute presentation with 5 minutes for questions, which allowed for futher discussion. This then resulted in discussions of future work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Presentation at the Innovation Showcase during EI Innovate 2023 |
| 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 | As part of the EI Innovate event in 2023, BDI team featured winners of the internal KEC Awards as part of the Innovation Showcase. JC, TB, JdV, WH, AH, JL presented their projects showcasing their KEC work - developing a spinout, a substantial collaboration, or a knowledge exchange activity with industry. EI Innovate is an annual engagement event that provides insight into the Earlham Institute's research, exploring opportunities for innovation and collaboration. Specialising in agri-food, biotech, med-tech and public health, we have a wealth of experience collaborating with others to develop potential solutions to urgent industrial and societal challenges. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.earlham.ac.uk/events/ei-innovate-2023 |
| Description | Presentation given to the 'University of Bath placement conference' for students and staff of the Chemistry Department |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The aim of the presentation was to outline the research being undertaken by Rachel Wong (MChem undergraduate intern) who is working on the DECODE project at The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (lead supervisor Dr Melanie Howes). During the presentation she outlined the project, highlighting the importance of natural product chemistry and plant bioactives relating to the DECODE project. The presentation generated a lot of interest and questions leading to an increased interest in this research topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presented at Monogram conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I presented a talk about using HiFi and OmniC reads to create a high quality haplotype aware assembly of Urochloa decumbens. The talk title was 'Double trouble - assembling the complex allelic diversity in outcrossed tetraploid Urochloa decumbens.'. It reached the conference attendees however I am not sure exaclty how many people that was - a lecture theatre full. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://research.reading.ac.uk/monogram-2023/ |
| Description | Presented data management talk on single cell RNA course |
| 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 | half hour section as part of the course to train early career researchers about best practice in research data management |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Project Meeting at Syngenta Site |
| 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 | Members of the Anthony Hall Group (AH, RLRP) and TraitSeq (JC, VD) met with collaborators Melissa Brazier-Hicks, Irene Gonzalez-Thuillier and Victor Labonia from Syngenta to discuss current collaboration, tour facilities and meet staff for discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Quarterly Institution Strategic Programme Work package meetings |
| 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 | ISP work package meetings are hybrid and open to and involve all participants in the ISPs, including partners. The meetings include 1-3 oral presentations showcasing ongoing work and roundtable discussions on successes, barriers, and opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024,2025 |
| Description | Revealing the genes that build plant bioactives |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Supporting the Decoding Biodiversity research programme, we wrote an article with Mel Salmon of the Patron Group about their work revealing the genes that build plant bioactives. This includes reference to our partnership with RBG Kew. This was also used later to promote activities at the 2025 Norwich Science Festival. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.earlham.ac.uk/articles/revealing-genes-build-plant-bioactives |
| Description | Royal Norfolk Agricultural Show - Stewarding |
| 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 | Assistant Head Steward helping RNAA coordinate STEMM village, AgriTechE and new machinery/innovations area at the Royal Norfolk Show, over 2days. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royalnorfolkshow.co.uk/ |
| Description | SAB Networking Dinners (x2) |
| 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 2 dinners during which I networked with senior advisory board of EI, to elucidate them on COPO |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | SAB Poster Session |
| 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 | Presented COPO at a poster session for the 2023 SAB |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Save the Banana! at the Norwich Science Festival |
| 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 | We took an activity aimed at 4-10 year old children to Norwich Science Festival 2024. This activity was based around the De Vega group's work on banana genomics. Over the three days we attended the festival we engaged with more than 1000 children and feedback (measured via feedback forms) was very positive. Many participants did not know the Cavendish banana was under threat. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Science Day at Notre Dame Prep School |
| 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 | Delivered science activities as part of Sustainable Science Day at Notre Dame Prep School, Norwich. 120 pupils from Year 1 to Year 6 participated in science activities related to the DECODE ISP on the topics of "Save the Banana" (an activity previously run at the Norwich Science Festival) and "Making Medicines in Plants". Pupils listened to a presentation introducing the science, and then worked their way around the activities, filling in their results in a "Lab Notebook". The school reported that the children and teaching staff found the activities engaging and inspiring and are keen to hold another science day in the next academic year. Melissa Salmon organised and coordinated the Science Day and produced the lab notebooks and activity sheets for "Making Medicines in Plants" Sarah Guiziou, Daria Golubova and Carolina Olave-Achury volunteered to help with delivering the activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Scilifelab presentation meeting |
| 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 | Demonstration of the efficacy of COPO as a brokering solution for Scilifelab. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Software Carpentries |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Delivered training |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Syngenta Product Safety and Biological Sciences External Collaboration Event |
| 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 | This event is a forum to present academic research to peers and a wide cross-section of Syngenta colleagues. Josh Colmer and I presented an interactive poster and JC gave a flash talk. We were awarded best poster. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk - Postgrad Data Literacy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Part of an annual PGR education programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk for UEA Pharmacology student visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 15 masters students from UEA pharmacology department visited the institute for a tour and talks about the benefits of doing a PhD and a selection of talks by PIs and a post-doc to highlight the research being conducted at EI. Many of the students asked questions and provided positive feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk in Big Data training session |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented best practice in current research data management technology to UEA/NRP PhD students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk on natural product drug discovery and bioactive molecules (including DECODE Asteraceae research) delivered to a group from the u3a (a UK-wide collection of charities that provide learning opportunities for those no longer in work) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Increased interest and awareness of the role of bioactive molecules from plants and technologies to source these, which stimulated questions and discussion on the subject. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk to PHD DTP cohort on data management and COPO |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | As part of a day of training, I talked for an hour about research data management, FAIR and the importance of these |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Technical blog posts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Three technical blog post tutorials designed to educate other researchers on how to produce various data visualisations in R. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.earlham.ac.uk/articles/plotting-proportional-data-nested-circles-r |
| Description | The fish, the fungus, the grass, the bee - and the brassica |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article on Earlham Institute's membership of ERGA, gaining positive feedback and shares from external organisations. As we live through the planet's sixth mass extinction event, the Earlham Institute has joined the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA), a ground-breaking network of researchers across Europe documenting our vanishing lifeforms. ERGA is a continent-wide response to the threat to diversity, collecting and sequencing the genomes of all European eukaryotes to better understand them for the future. It is part of the wider Earth Biogenome Project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.earlham.ac.uk/articles/fish-fungus-grass-bee-and-brassica |
| Description | Trip to Brussels for PROGRACE/EMPHASIS/forEVA as invited speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The joint PRO-GRACE/EMPHASIS Policy Symposium and Workshop on Plant Genetic Resources and Phenotyping was held in Brussels on 27-28 June 2024. around 30-50 people attended. This sparked discussions in how to properly store data and other plant genetic -related discussions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://grace-ri.eu/pro-grace/news-events |
| Description | Virtual presentation at BBSRC funded UK-Argentina wheat workshop in Buenos Aires |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk on wheat genomics. The goal of the workshop was to facilitate future UK-Argentina cooperation around wheat. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Visit and workshop of EI researchers to IBERS. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Crop Genomics - Earlham Institute visit to IBERS 20th July 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Wendling Beck DEFRA Test & Trial workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A series of three workshops lead by the Wendling Beck Environment Project discussing biodiversity monitoring with ecologists, naturalist groups, farmers and landowners. I had a range of discussions with practitioners engaged in developing and testing technologies for monitoring and recording biodiversity trends. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
| URL | https://www.wendlingbeck.org/ |
| Description | Workshop UK:BalticWheat workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave a talk at the workshop "Why multiple wheat genomes are important" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Workshop between Earlham and Eagle Genomics |
| 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 | A visit 7 Earlham colleagues to Eagle Genomics in London to build a collaborative framework between Eagle and Earlham, as part of collaborations with DECODE and CELLGEN ISPs. Key areas of the framework include IP management, software licensing; terms of access to EI tools and data; standardisation of tools and data to enable commercialisation; and areas of joint research interests resulting in publications (animal health and probiotics, soil health). This visit was funded through the BBSRC FTMA4. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | https://www.earlham.ac.uk/news/earlham-institute-BBSRC-funding-award-2023 |
| 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We issued a press release to mark the 5-year funding award from BBSRC, which supports the Earlham Institute, ISPs, and NBRIs. We secured widespread regional media coverage, including BBC Look East and online, ITV Anglia, and the EDP. The feedback from BBSRC on this coverage was very positive, particularly due to competing stories on life science funding. The launch campaign received around 28.5k impressions and 1,000 engagements across social media platforms, with the launch tweet achieving 330 engagements on its own. The majority of ISP partners engaged either by sharing ours posts or publishing their own messages, which included Kew Science, UK CEH, Eagle Genomics, and PacBio. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.earlham.ac.uk/news/earlham-institute-BBSRC-funding-award-2023 |