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
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.
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.
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.