News from 2020 tagged as news

April

Professor Michael Wakelam in the lipidomics facility at the Babraham Institute. Image used courtesy of Keith Heppell and the Cambridge Independent.

Babraham Director, Professor Michael Wakelam, 1955 – 2020 news

UKRI-BBSRC are greatly saddened to learn that Professor Michael Wakelam, Director of the Babraham Institute, has died from respiratory complications related to suspected COVID-19.

February

UKRI launches consultation on Open Access policy news

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has today launched a consultation as part of its Open Access Review. The consultation will inform the development of a new open access policy, aimed at ensuring that the published outputs of research are widely and freely accessible to all.

January

Screenshot from animation, showing a 'space invader' graphic hovering over a line of trees and plants

Mirren takes on olive killer in new animation news

BBSRC-funded John Innes Centre has recruited Oscar-winning actress Dame Helen to voice an animation to educate the public of the consequences of the plant disease Xylella fastidiosa.

The pathogen has caused great destruction to olive crops across Europe and the John Innes Centre – the independent, international centre of excellence in plant science, genetics and microbiology – is at the forefront of efforts to keep the disease out of the UK.