by Milly Bell | Nov 24, 2025 | Blog
PhD student, and former intern with the Centre for Forest Protection, Phoebe Swift tells us about her route into a career in tree genomics… Where it began… Having grown up in the rural Cotswolds, I have always been surrounded by nature – from dense...
by Milly Bell | Oct 7, 2025 | Blog
As an evergreen tree, the yew is symbolic of everlasting life and rebirth. It was held sacred by Druids in pre-Christian times, and came to symbolise death and resurrection for the ancient Celts which continued into the Christian era; yew branches were carried on Palm...
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’ intern...
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 state-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 Katy’s...
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...
