Plant scientist working at the John Innes Centre, interested in genomics and growth control
Joined August 2016
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Michael Bevan retweeted
My lab at JIC is recruiting 3 PDRA:
🔹 Bioinformatics / AI
🔹Molecular Biology / Genetics
🔹Proteomics
Programme funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
Closing date: 27 February
Apply here:
jic.ac.uk/vacancies/postdoct…
jic.ac.uk/vacancies/postdoct…
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Michael Bevan retweeted
16 Dec 2025
New opportunity to join our #EvoMPMI group @JohnInnesCentre as a Postdoctoral Researcher working in the mechanistic basis of immunity in diverse plants. Please spread the word, reach out by email, and/or apply if interested! More details here: jic.ac.uk/vacancies/postdoct…
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Michael Bevan retweeted
13 Nov 2025
📣 Happy to announce that we are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher @JohnInnesCentre to join my Wellcome-funded project.
📅 Closes on 10 Dec.
jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36866/
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28 Jun 2025
So how is it possible to apply fertilizer to a chalk stream irrigated system, whee presumably the run off returns to the stream?
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12 Apr 2025
Thank you for your progressive actions
“We defeated a well-funded, bad-faith attempt to turn our country against our founding agreement.” — Kassie Hartendorp
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9 Apr 2025
Whew!! Great work James and a real credit for your persistence and creativity
9 Apr 2025
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Michael Bevan retweeted
15 Jan 2025
Happy to share our latest discovery of the autoactive CNGC15, sufficient to enhance root endosymbiosis in legume and field grown wheat: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Thank you to everyone involved! Special shout-out @NicMCook1, G.Gobbato, collaborators
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10 Jan 2025
Elon Musk is a Fellow of the Royal Society you know @royalsociety
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🚨 NEW: Scotland Yard has increased Jess Phillips' security and have told her not to go out in public alone after Elon Musk called her a 'rape genocide apologist'
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14 Dec 2024
Feels like yesterday! Such a privilege to have fine students who have done very well ❤️❤️
14 Dec 2024
Regards from 25 years ago @JohnInnesCentre !! I was a happy & priviledged PhD student in @michaelbevan565 Lab - times flies but best coleagues and friends stay forever 🌱🌱(see @ClausSchwech on my right, Melina, Rob and Caroline) #Arabidopsis glamour @tair_news
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Michael Bevan retweeted
8 Nov 2024
Tawaiho, the Maori king of New Zealand, December 1897.
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Michael Bevan retweeted
Who were the "scientific refugees" the UK couldn't help during the Second World War?
Sir David Clary will share the tragic fates, or astounding survival experiences, of these erudite scholars. rigb.org/whats-on/lost-scien…
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Michael Bevan retweeted
10 Oct 2024
Omai of the Friendly Isles wikiart.org/en/joshua-reynol…
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Michael Bevan retweeted
31 Aug 2024
"Meet the new boss / Same as the old boss" - my Political Roundup about the new vested interests that the Lange and Douglas revolution installed in 1984 that are still on top in 2024: democracyproject.substack.co…
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Michael Bevan retweeted
28 Aug 2024
PlantCaduceus - Cross-species modeling of plant genomes
Led by Jingjing Zhai and Aaron Gokaslan, with the Kuleshov lab, we’re having our “ChatGPT moment” with DNA Large Models. PlantCaduceus predicts functional DNA sequences with single base resolution across flowering plants.
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Michael Bevan retweeted
26 Aug 2024
There's clearly no day that couldn't be improved with a photograph of Albert Camus dancing.
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Michael Bevan retweeted
23 Aug 2024
In South Africa, farmers are growing GM drought-tolerant and insect-resistant maize varieties.
GM cotton in Malawi has more than trebled yields vs. conventional.
In Nigeria, GM cowpea is resistant to pod borer, which can devastate up to 90% of the crop.
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Michael Bevan retweeted
23 Aug 2024
Opinion: Constitutional law expert and former Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer takes a deep, concerned look at the risks this Government is taking with hasty law changes. newsroom.co.nz/2024/08/23/ge…
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Michael Bevan retweeted
20 Aug 2024
#OnThisDay in 1858, a seminal journal article comprised of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace FRS and Charles Darwin FRS on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published by the @LinneanSociety, the first public announcement of the theory. bit.ly/3k8fq4u
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Michael Bevan retweeted
18 Aug 2024
One of the greatest battles in Anglo-French history:
The battle of Marianne Faithfull of 1967
Belligerants:
Alain Delon (🇫🇷)
Mick Jagger (🇬🇧)
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Michael Bevan retweeted
14 Aug 2024
NEWS - How bread dough gave rise to civilisation
A major international study has explained how bread wheat helped to transform the ancient world
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