Quadram Institute

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Do you have experience working in a lab and are organised, show attention to detail and able to work independently but with excellent team working and communication skills and a strong customer service mindset?

Check out our vacancy ⤵️

💷 £24,250 to £26,500
🗓️ Apply by 31 March 2026
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Developing a new organ-on-chip system to study vaginal yeast infections - Quadram Institute How scientists and gynecologists study the fungus responsible for thrush infections which are becoming increasingly difficult to treat

This #InternationalWomensDay learn more about our pioneering project bringing together scientists and gynecologists to study the biology of a fungus responsible for common infections in women which are becoming increasingly difficult to treat 🔬

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Inspiring school children to be scientists through “I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here!” - Quadram Institute Elin shares her experience of taking part in the national online outreach activity which inspires school children across the country to consider careers in science

"Curiosity: what's your question?" is the theme of this year's #BritishScienceWeek 🤔

Our researchers are taking part in the the national online outreach activity "I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here!" as part of the week ⤵️

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You could contribute to the development of new food products that may be beneficial to health.

We’re looking for participants to take part in the fully remote GlyCarb study with @nnuh.bsky.social

Find out more and register your interest
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🆕 investinmeresearch.bsky.social Research Summer Student Bursaries 🎓

A limited number of eight-week bursaries are available for undergraduate students wishing to gain practical experience in a biomedical research laboratory 🧪

🗓️ Apply by 7 April 2026
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FAIR metabolomics in practice: submitting and accessing data in MetaboLights - FAIR metabolomics in practice: submitting and accessing data in MetaboLights -

FAIR metabolomics in practice webinar happening next week💻️

Organised by @ebi.embl.org in association with the Quadram Institute and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The webinar will offer guidance for the submission of metabolomics datasets to the MetaboLights repository⤵️

AI for safe and sustainable agri-food supply chains workshop - Food Safety Research Network Join us for the AI for safe and sustainable agri-food supply chains workshop, co-organised by the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, AI for the Biosciences in the UK Network and the Food Safety…

Would you like to explore the latest applications of AI for food safety and sustainability through real-world case studies? 🌏️

Register now for the AI for safe and sustainable agri-food supply chains workshop⤵️

📅 9 July 2026
📍 Cloth Hall Court, Leeds

#FoodSafety #AI #Sustainability

The Quadram Institute building and parking sits underneath a blue sky with orange-pink clouds.

The Quadram Institute building and surrounding greenery and benches sit underneath a blue sky with orange-pink clouds.

The Quadram Institute under a beautiful sky 🌇

We're proudly home to a state-of-the-art facility for bioscience, clinical research and endoscopy (@nnuh.bsky.social) within the Norwich Research Park.

Learn more about how to get involved with us ⤵️
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🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a Laboratory Support Technician to join our Science Operations team 🥼

💷 £24,250 to £26,500
🗓️ Apply by 31 March 2026
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Alessia Buscaino describing the evoluytion of commensalism and pathogenesis in Candida albicans and the potential role of RNAi #CMINorwich26 @quadraminstitute.bsky.social

Gathering data on the gut microbiome in childhood obesity - Quadram Institute Scientists and clinicians working together on a pioneering project to learn more about the role of gut microbiome in childhood obesity

This #WorldObesityDay discover how our scientists and @nnuh.bsky.social clinicians are working together on a pioneering project to learn more about the role of gut microbiome in childhood obesity ⤵️

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Dr Emily Jones giving a talk on women's health

Dr Emily Jones and other researchers taking part in the the re-imagining women's health event

PhD student Josh Horton talking at Out Thinkers 2026 in Dragon Hall

Quadram researchers running the evolve, survive and thrive activity!

Here's some of our highlights from #NorwichScieneFestival

🦠 The Microbe Zoo
🩺 Reimaging women's heath panel discussion
🍽️ Hidden hunger panel discussion
🧫 Evolve, Survive , Thrive! activity about bacterial evolution
🔬 Germ Jenga, Pipetting and Promoting Research
🌈 Out thinkers

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Is E. coli always bad for you? Meet the microbe with good and bad strains - Quadram Institute Though some E. coli strains cause illness, many others quietly help us maintain good gut health. So, when is E. coli good for you and when is it not?

🧫 What comes to mind when you think of E. coli? The microbe that causes food poisoning and urinary tract infections?

We overlook the E. coli strains that live in our gut, helping us maintain good health, or their engineering potential to produce key vitamins 💊

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📣 The #BiofortificationHub has funding to pump-prime collaborative projects on:

🌱 Biofortification of food, feed & fodder
🛒 Consumer science, social and policy aspects of crop and food biofortification.

Apply by 25 April 2026
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A virus hiding inside bacteria may help explain colorectal cancer Scientists found an unexpected viral hitchhiker lurking inside a common gut bacterium – and it was twice as prevalent in people with colorectal cancer.

A virus hiding inside bacteria may help explain colorectal cancer 🦠

"The broader implication is a shift in how we think about the gut microbiome and its relationship to disease. It may not be enough to ask which bacteria are present."

🗨️ Dr Ryan Cook, Research Scientist

This position is ideally suited to a scientist with experience in host-based experimental systems who is motivated to apply microbiome and microbial metabolism approaches to mechanistic questions in host health.

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
🗓️ Apply by 22 March 2026
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Understanding the microbiome in severe malnutrition - Quadram Institute Children undergoing treatment for severe acute malnutrition lack an effective gut microbiome, which impairs their ability to use dietary fibre, hindering their recovery, according to a new study led…

By studying the microbiomes of children hospitalised with severe acute malnutrition, the research teams found a lack of diversity in the microbes present that meant they couldn’t ferment the fibre inulin, which is commonly used as a prebiotic.

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Norse Group CEO Justin Galliford and marketing manager Clare Jordan stand in front of the Quadram Institute logo alongside Director Daniel Figeys and members of the Food and Nutrition National Bioscience Research Infrastructure team.

Delighted to have welcomed Norse Group CEO Justin Galliford and marketing manager Clare Jordan to the Quadram Institute today.

We look forward to continuing to work together with them for the benefit of our local communities 🤝

Join @parker-aim.bsky.social and other experts across the Norwich Research Park in this great course on Histology for Spatial Transcriptomics ⤵️

Is E. coli always bad for you? Meet the microbe with good and bad strains - Quadram Institute Though some E. coli strains cause illness, many others quietly help us maintain good gut health. So, when is E. coli good for you and when is it not?

🆕 Blog! Is E. coli always bad for you?

“Two strains of E. coli can be as genetically different as a human is to a chimpanzee," explains @gabastorga.bsky.social

This diversity means some E. coli strains can contribute to a healthy gut microbiome while others cause illness 🦠

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Delivering Sustainable Wheat The Delivering Sustainable Wheat Institute Strategic Programme aims to develop wheat germplasm containing the next generation of key traits.

Today we're excited to join the Delivering Sustainable Wheat Conference - a @ukri.org cross-institute programme bringing together expertise of 11 organisations and universities - including Earlham Institute, @johninnescentre.bsky.social, @quadraminstitute.bsky.social and @rothamsted.bsky.social.

The GlyCarb Remote Study - Quadram Institute The GlyCarb Remote study aims to understand how different carbohydrate-rich meals affect blood sugar levels

You could contribute to important food research, all from the comfort of your own home.

The GlyCarb study is fully remote with virtual support of the Quadram and @nnuh.bsky.social study research team.

Find out more and register your interest ⤵️

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Are you a UK business looking to start working with academia on biofortification or vice versa? 🌿

Check out the Business Interaction Voucher funding at the Biofortification Hub.

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And we’re off. Study Visit 1 completed @quadraminstitute.bsky.social this morning for the ViTAL-D study. I’m helping answer the question, can we get the Vitamin D we need to be healthy from genetically-edited tomatoes? quadram.ac.uk/need-a-winte...

Clinical innovation fund backs new research projects to benefit Norfolk patients - Quadram Institute The Quadram Institute Clinical Seedcorn Fund was first established in 2021/2022 to help clinicians develop research ideas with scientists at the Quadram Institute. The fund supports secondments of…

"The hospital is one of the four partners in the Quadram Institute and working together the Partnership is serving to increase knowledge and deliver benefits for our patients."

💬 Rachel Backshall, Director of the N&N Hospitals Charity

Really great to hear about your positive experience of Quadram as part of the PPI panel, Alex!

Punicalagin is the key pomegranate polyphenol inhibiting gut microbial trimethylamine (TMA) production from L-carnitine in an in vitro human colon model TMAO has been linked to various cardiometabolic diseases and all-cause mortality risk. A major dietary precursor of TMAO is l-carnitine. l-Carnitine is metabolised by microbiota to γ-butyrobetaine (γ-...

In the latest issue of Food & Function:
Punicalagin is the key pomegranate polyphenol inhibiting gut microbial trimethylamine (TMA) production from l-carnitine in an in vitro human colon model.
#OpenAccess from P. A. Kroon et al @quadraminstitute.bsky.social
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Understanding the microbiome in severe malnutrition - Quadram Institute Children undergoing treatment for severe acute malnutrition lack an effective gut microbiome, which impairs their ability to use dietary fibre, hindering their recovery, according to a new study led…

Children undergoing treatment for severe acute malnutrition lack an effective gut microbiome, which impairs their ability to use dietary fibre, hindering their recovery, according to a new study led by the Quadram Institute.

We’re looking for a Research Scientist to investigate how microbial sulfur and nitrogen metabolism in the human gut affect host health, with relevance to nutrition and metabolic disease.

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
🗓️ Apply by 22 March 2026
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