The Microbiome Innovation Centre at the University of Liverpool, the National Biofilms Innovation Centre, the Quadram Institute, Nottingham Trent University, and the University of Oxford have been awarded a BBSRC Network Grant to establish […]

A new collaborative project called ‘OpenLAND: Open evaluation of climate-resilient interventions for land management, soil health and net zero’ has been funded by UKRI. The project brings together partners from all over the UK […]

The Food Safety Research is hosted by the Quadram Institute, and co-led by Dr Matthew Gilmour and Dr Maria Traka, and we’re delighted to have the opportunity to drive forward the next phase of the network as we work together on the […]

Researchers, clinicians and people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis have worked together to develop a new way of measuring functional capacity in this debilitating condition The post New tool for measuring functional capacity developed […]

Prof Buscaino’s research group is dedicated to understanding the biology of the most common human fungal pathogen, Candida albicans, and to developing fungal-based platforms for producing nutritious, sustainable, and animal-free foods […]

The Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial Bioinformatics (CLIMB) is the world’s only cloud computing service dedicated to microbiology and was developed by UK scientists. Over the past ten years through support from UK Research and […]

Researchers from the Quadram Institute in Norwich and Imperial College London showed that foods made with chickpea flour prepared in a way to keep the plant cells intact trigger a much healthier metabolic response during digestion than […]

Researchers from the Quadram Institute have found how a common gut microbe, Bilophila wadsworthia, adapts to high-fat diets which may contribute to gut and liver disease. The post How a gut bacterium uses diet to turn against us appeared […]

Quadram Institute scientists are working on the first phase of a major new Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) programme to help develop the plants and food of the future. Professor Martin Warren, chief scientific officer at the […]

Researchers analysing the gut microbiomes of Parkinson’s patients have uncovered alterations in its composition and functional capacity that associate with the disease, including pathways involved in the biochemical transformation of […]