by Louise Gathercole | May 7, 2025 | Blog, Intern Blogs
Apoorva spent her six month internship working with researchers at RBG, Kew as part of the ash pangenome project. She was annotating a reference genome from an individual tree that seemed to be less susceptible to the devastating fungal tree disease ash dieback. You...
by Louise Gathercole | May 6, 2025 | News
British woodlands and trees will benefit from new research aimed at boosting protection against environmental and socioeconomic threats. This National Plant Health Week we are delighted to announce that Defra investing £4 million in the Centre for Forest Protection...
by Louise Gathercole | May 5, 2025 | Blog, Intern Blogs
Catherine spent her six month internship working with researchers at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Catherine had the challenge of pulling together data from multiple different places to create a database and a map of the different species of elm and elm cultivars in...
by Louise Gathercole | May 5, 2025 | Blog, Intern Blogs
Jack spent his six months with the Centre for Forest Protection working with one of our PhD students, Fritha, and social scientists at Forest Research and the University of St Andrews. He was looking at the cultural and social connections between people and tree...
