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
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.
Post Doctoral position in pathogen-triggered endocytic trafficking
Cambridge and Norwich win major boost for synthetic biology
Plant scientists at Cambridge and Norwich have been awarded £12 million funding for a new UK synthetic biology centre – OpenPlant.
To grow or to defend: how plants decide
Scientists have discovered how plants use steroid hormones to choose growth over defence when their survival depends on it.
The findings published in the open-access scientific journal eLife could be used to engineer crops that combine size with pathogen resistance.
Group leader position in wheat disease resistance
We are seeking an outstanding and highly motivated individual to lead a TSL+ team devoted to delivering genetic solutions to major diseases of wheat.
AAAS and The Sainsbury Laboratory Announce 2013 Fellows
Professors Sophien Kamoun and Jonathan Jones of The Sainsbury Laboratory have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Fraxinus to feature on bbc one
Fraxinus, the Facebook game that helps the fight against ash-dieback, will be featured on the 10th November edition of BBC One's Countryfile.
Bioinformatics Post-doctoral Researcher
We are looking to recruit a dynamic and highly motivated candidate to drive an exciting high-risk, high-reward project studying the evolution of pathogen genomes using population genetic/genomics and mathematical modelling approaches.