Phoebe spent her six month Centre for Forest Protection internship working with Scientists at Kew using data generated during our pilot year. She developed knowledge and skills in genomics, bioinformatics and programming in R as well as joining in with lots of other activities at Kew. We are delighted that she is staying on as a research assistant with the Centre for Forest Protection at Kew Science. You can read a short summary of what she got up to here.
National Plant Health Week – Understanding a devastating bacterial pathogen
PhD student Jiaqi tells us about her work investigating potential impacts on British trees of a bacterial disease that is causing major problems for crop growers across the world.