The Sainsbury Laboratory
The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) is located on the Norwich Research Park (NRP). The Laboratory favours daring, long-term research and has state of the art technologies and support services to enable cutting-edge science. Our main goals are:
- To make fundamental discoveries in the science of plant-microbe interactions
- To build on fundamental scientific research and deliver science solutions that reduce crop losses to important diseases
- To provide an outstanding training environment that prepares scientists who pass through the laboratory to excel in their careers
Both the Sainsbury Laboratory and John Innes Centre are world-class centres for plant and microbial sciences. Due to their size and scope, they have excellent research facilities, particularly in the platform technologies that underpin modern molecular biology. As a result, TSL and JIC have an outstanding record of publications in high profile journals.
The Sainsbury Laboratory is a registered charity, number 1065510, and a company limited by guarantee, registered number 3346853 in England and Wales.
Registered office: JIC, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK.
Contact us at: admin@tsl.ac.uk
Tel. +44 (0)1603 450400
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TSL NEWS
Postdoctoral position in molecular genetics of disease resistance
New list names TSL scientists among the top 1% in the world
Postdoctoral bioinformatics position in development of race-independent resistance against Asian Soybean Rust
Research assistant in molecular genetics of disease resistance
Computational Biologist / Bioinformatician
As part of an expansion in our activities in bioinformatics and high-throughput functional genomics, we are seeking a dynamic individual who will be responsible, as a member of a team, for providing bioinformatic support for genomic and proteomic activities at TSL.
Vacancy: Communications Manager
We are looking for a communications manager for our world-leading plant and microbial research institutes in Norwich - The John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory.
Major advance in understanding plant disease resistance
Researchers at TSL, Norwich, collaborating with structural biologist Bostjan Kobe in Brisbane, have made a major advance in understanding plant disease resistance.
Pre-doctoral intern
Predoctoral internships are aimed at individuals who want to gain practical experience in advance of starting a PhD. An internship is where an individual works to strengthen their professional experience before embarking on a PhD.
Pre-doctoral intern
The group of Sophien Kamoun, located at the Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, is looking for a pre-doctoral intern starting immediately. Our research activities aim at dissecting the molecular mechanisms that drive pathogen evolution and adaptation to prevailing selective pressures.
Independent report to government on GM
Plant scientists recommend a new programme of independent research to field test “public good” GM crops. The proposal, which they are calling PubGM, would support innovations to benefit consumers and the environment.
A novel battleground for plant-pathogen interactions
Scientists at The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, with collaborators at Michigan State University and the University of Illinois, have unveiled a new way in which plants perceive pathogens to activate immunity.
Missing link in plant immunity identified
After a 30-year search, scientists have uncovered how an enzyme critical to plants’ rapid immune response against microbes is activated.
GM spuds beat blight
In a three-year GM research trial, scientists boosted resistance of potatoes to late blight, their most important disease, without deploying fungicides.
