The Quadram Institute

18/12/2025

If you’re a vegan or vegetarian, with regular periods, living within 70 miles of Norwich you can take part in our HARVEST study growing biofortified greens in a kitchen garden🥬

Find out more➡️https://buff.ly/3XFLuQS

18/12/2025

📻 Tune into BBC Radio Norfolk at 2.20pm to hear our researcher Dr Emma Waters talk about the launch of the 'Am I a Scientist' online teaching resource ⤵️

https://buff.ly/QdHqWf4

Listen live to Radio Norfolk on BBC Sounds

18/12/2025

🆕 New book shares Quadram’s Best Practice in Microbiome Research 📗

Published by Springer Nature, Best Practice in Microbiome Research (IBSN: 978-1-0716-5008-0 & 978-1-0716-5009-7 ) draws on our depth and breadth of experience and expertise in microbiome research.

Read more
➡️ https://quadram.ac.uk/new-book-shares-quadrams-best-practice-in-microbiome-research/

17/12/2025

At the Quadram Institute we work with policymakers and members of parliament to provide strong scientific evidence on food, gut microbiome and health. Working with policymakers is key to delivering our mission of delivering healthier lives through innovation in gut health, microbiology and food.

Here we look back on some of our policy highlights from 2025 ⤵️

At the Quadram Institute we work with policymakers and members of parliament to provide strong scientific evidence on food, gut microbiome and health. Working with policymakers is key to delivering our mission of delivering healthier lives through innovation in gut health, microbiology and food. Her...

17/12/2025

🆕 We're proud to announce the launch of END2AMR (European Novel Drug Research to Address Microbial Infections and Drug Resistance) – a major new public-private research initiative designed to tackle some of the most difficult-to-treat bacterial infections.

The Quadram Institute is part of END2AMR, a major new public-private research initiative designed to tackle some of the most difficult-to-treat bacterial infections

16/12/2025

Supported by £2.7 million of funding from Wellcome’s Biology of Fungal Adaptation programme, the five-year research project leverages a network of leading international experts – Professor Buscaino, Professor Ana Traven from Monash University and Professor Kevin Foster from the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford – to uncover what drives fungi to switch from harmless members of the gut microbiota to disease-causing pathogens.

A new study will investigate Candida infections to understand how fungi adapt to the human gut and address the challenge of fungal infections

15/12/2025

Be part of research at the Quadram Institute!

We’re running the ViTaL-D study to investigate whether John Innes Centre biofortified tomatoes developed through gene editing to be high in vitamin D leads to higher levels of active vitamin D in the blood 🍅

➡️ https://buff.ly/gm0zYtx

15/12/2025

We were delighted to welcome Department of Health and Social Care Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Lucy Chappell to the Quadram Institute on Friday.

Professor Chappell met researchers from across the Norwich Research Park during Friday’s visit.

Read more about our health research
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14/12/2025

Do you have a PhD in microbiology, molecular microbiology or a related discipline, with experience in molecular genetics, microbial genomics or microbiome analysis?

Check out our current vacancy ⤵️

🗓️ Apply by 28 December 2025
➡️ https://buff.ly/hRhxVH7

13/12/2025

Abstract submissions closing soon! ⏰ The second Biofortification Hub Community Meeting "Biofortification: From Science to Society" organised by the The Rowett Institute is happening next March

Submit abstracts for talks and abstracts by 21 December
➡️ https://buff.ly/ZAQLg5D

John Innes Centre

12/12/2025

🆕 Blog! As we head towards the end of 2025, we reflect on our policy highlights across food and health ✨

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At the Quadram Institute we work with policymakers and members of parliament to provide strong scientific evidence on food, gut microbiome and health. Working with policymakers is key to delivering our mission of delivering healthier lives through innovation in gut health, microbiology and food. Her...

11/12/2025

“We can test which antibiotics, or other treatments, are actually effective at preventing microbes from sticking to catheters, to try and give clinicians better tools to treat these infections if they do happen."

💬 Professor Mark Webber

“We all have many microbes on our skin and in our bodies, that’s our normal microbiome. Occasionally, this can tip into infection and when you have a catheter in your body there’s a weak point, a route of infection. “We’re trying to understand which microbes survive on these catheters and ...