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The 372 acre Bayfordbury estate was bought by the John Innes Centre in 1948 where it was developed into a School of Cytology.
The Biffen Lecture is a lectureship organised by the John Innes Centre, named after Rowland Biffen.
After winning two scholarships, the Queen Victoria Scholarship and the 1851 Exhibition Memorial Scholarship and spending 1912-14 at Newnham College, she returned to South Africa and was promptly awarded another scholarship to the John Innes Institute where she chose to study genetics.
Blue tomatoes have also been developed at the John Innes Centre in the UK using GMO gene splicing techniques, incorporating genes from snapdragons to increase the anthocyanin levels.
Chater studied for a PhD at Birmingham University working on transduction in Salmonella, after which he joined the John Innes Centre in 1969 and began working with David Hopwood.