by Milly Bell | Nov 24, 2025 | Blog, Intern Blogs, PhD Blogs
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 Louise Gathercole | May 16, 2025 | Blog, Intern Blogs
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, Intern Blogs
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, Intern Blogs
This National Plant Health Week – find out about Katy’s internship experience working on lab methods to detect bacteria that are a potential threat to our trees. Katy spent her six month internship working with PhD student Jiaqi at Forest Research’s...
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 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...
