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unusual facts about John Innes Centre


John Innes Centre

It is a registered charity (No 223852) grant-aided by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and is a member of the Norwich Research Park.


Bayfordbury

The 372 acre Bayfordbury estate was bought by the John Innes Centre in 1948 where it was developed into a School of Cytology.

Biffen Lecture

The Biffen Lecture is a lectureship organised by the John Innes Centre, named after Rowland Biffen.

Margaret Levyns

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.


see also

Blue tomato

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.

Keith Chater

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.