by Louise Gathercole | May 16, 2025 | Blog
Cas tells us about her experience learning computer-based methods to understand more about the elm genome. She worked with researchers at Kew, and learnt how to use the high performance computing cluster at Queen Mary University London. You can read Cas’ diary...
by Louise Gathercole | May 14, 2025 | Blog
Josh spent his six month internship with the Centre for Forest Protection learning all about identifying nematodes. He worked with PhD student Talor in the Holt Lab containment facility at Forest Research and became quite an expert in identifying the different parts...
by Louise Gathercole | May 8, 2025 | Blog
Katy spent her six month internship working with PhD student Jiaqi at Forest Research’s stae-of-the-art containment laboratory, the Holt Lab and at the University of Birmingham’s Institute for Forestry Research (BIFoR). You can find out about her...
by Louise Gathercole | May 7, 2025 | Blog
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 5, 2025 | Blog
Catherine spent her six month internship working with researchers at RBG, 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 Britain. ...
by Louise Gathercole | May 5, 2025 | Blog
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...
