Excited to announce that my colleagues and I UEA have received a grant from the Wolfson Foundation to establish a new Centre of Advanced Environmental Microbiology. Great teamwork including Julea Butt, Jonathan Todd Research Marcela Hernández Laura Lehtovirta-Morley Andrew Gates with support from #UEA.

Grant awarded! 🥳 Thank you Wolfson Foundation! This will help develop the new Centre of Advanced Environmental Microbiology UEA. Strong teamwork made this possible: Julea Butt, Laura Lehtovirta-Morley, Andrew Gates, Thomas Mock, Jonathan Todd Research and me, with support from #UEA.

Today is #InternationalCatDay! 🐱🐾 Say hello to Rex, the JIC #ScienceCat 🧪 Our own paw-fect Norwich Research Park King of the Cats, Rex is always on hand to help keep our researchers feline fine & even recently featured on BBC Norfolk Edd Smith. Follow Rex’s adventures #LifeAtJIC

One-year taught MSc in Global Plant Health. Deadline 31st August for applicants who don’t need a visa. David Sainsbury 35% Fee Scholarships still available for 23rd September 2024 entry. tsl.ac.uk/msc @BioUEA

Birds influence vegetation coverage and structure on sandy biogeomorphic islands in the Dutch Wadden Sea | sciencedirect.com/science/articl… | Science of the Total Environment | #ornithology

Would you cover to come and work with Team Flea Beetle? We are looking for a part time research assistant to join our team! jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?va…

VACANCY: We're recruiting for a #Postdoc with skills in #bioinformatics, computational biology and experience working on #singlecell transcriptomics and spatial #transcriptomics data. 🗓️ Apply by: 19 August 2024 ➡️ okt.to/wxBbrF

New research co-led by Dr Pankaj Garg from UEA’s Norwich Medical School and academics from Queen Mary University of London, find a breakthrough new heart MRI technique which accurately predicts heart failure risk. 👨‍⚕️🩺 #ThisIsUEA #UniversityResearch #MRI #MedicalResearch

New report co-led by UEA’s Dr Matthew Jones, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Met Office, and ECMWF finds that the carbon emissions from global wildfires were 16% above average, with wildfires in certain regions being three times more likely due to climate change. 🌍🥼

Join us for the UK DNA Replication Meeting 2024! Topics will include replication fork progression, DNA replication stress and human disease, regulation of replication in space and time, chromatin replication and more! Register now: ow.ly/tsQS50SUufW

FELLOWS - We are recruiting #EarlyCareerResearchers to join EI as Career Development #Fellows. We strongly encourage applications from diverse backgrounds and welcome applications seeking full-time, part-time or other flexible working arrangements. okt.to/iRlnsr

📣 Registration is open for #Norwich #Nanopore Day - discussing the latest applications of Oxford Nanopore sequencing across microbial, plant, animal, and human health research. okt.to/bryiCw UEA Biological Sciences John Innes Centre Quadram Institute The Sainsbury Laboratory

Vacancy: Postdoctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Genomics 🧬 Join the Antonelli Lab, an international research group looking at evolution and conservation of biodiversity, particularly in the tropics and Brazil’s Atlantic Rainforest 🦜🌴 15 Sep ⏳👇 ow.ly/v08y50T0YBA

Today is #WorldPlantMilkDay 🌿 Earlier this year our Food & Nutrition - NBRI researchers carried out a comprehensive survey of the nutritional quality of plant-based products on sale in the UK May 2022, including plant-based milks 🥛 Here's what they found⤵️ buff.ly/3SS7s1i

Join us for Synthetic Biology UK 2024 #SBUK2024! Engage with leading experts, explore pioneering research, and foster collaboration in the dynamic field of Synthetic Biology. Register now and submit your abstract by 27 September: ow.ly/bKnJ50SYyzu

A few days left to apply. One-year taught MSc in Global Plant Health. Deadline 30th August for applicants who don’t need a visa. David Sainsbury 35% Fee Scholarships still available for 23rd September 2024 entry. tsl.ac.uk/msc @BioUEA

Co-led research from Professor Nitya Rao, from the Development UEA 🌍, finds that despite women’s significant contributions to the fishery and aquaculture sector, they often remain invisible, are underpaid. The research calls for more policymaking in these areas. #GlobalDevelopment

New research, co-led by Professor Jonathan Todd and the Ocean University of China, has identified an enzyme that has implications for our understanding of global sulfur cycling, marine biogeochemistry, climate-cooling gas production and the potential for life on other planets.

📣 Registration closes soon for #Norwich #Nanopore Day - discussing the latest applications of Oxford Nanopore sequencing across microbial, plant, animal, and human health research. okt.to/Buq3sX UEA Biological Sciences John Innes Centre Quadram Institute The Sainsbury Laboratory

Floor 0 has now reopened! And we think it’s looking fantastic (if we do say so ourselves). Make sure you pop by and check it out! Read more: uea-uk.libguides.com/blogs/library-… UEA #UEA #UEALibrary