Dr Philippa Borrill

Group Leader

Department of Crop Genetics
John Innes Centre
Norwich Research Park
Norwich
NR4 7UH, UK

Email / Google scholar / Bluesky / LinkedIn

Staff

Emilie Knight – Research Assistant

Dr Chen Ji – Postdoctoral Researcher

PhD students

Miles Curl – NRPDTP CASE student with RAGT Seeds Ltd, KWS Ltd and Limagrain Ltd

Adam Gicgier – EDESIA student

Delfi Dorussen – NRPDTP student

Becca Testa – John Innes Foundation student

Vising PhD students, Masters and undergraduate students

Ismael Gutiérrez Fernández – Visiting PhD student

Giuseppina Angione – Visiting PhD student

Lab timeline

Former lab members

  • Jack Eagle – Undergraduate dissertation student (2023-2024)
  • Rosa Whittingham – Year in Industry student (2023-2024)
  • Sam Burrows – Research Assistant (2022-2024)
  • Marek Glombik – Postdoctoral Researcher (2022-2024)
  • James Milson – MIBTP CASE student with KWS Ltd (2020-2024)
  • João Reis – Visiting PhD student (2024)
  • Giorgia di Santolo – Undergraduate dissertation student (2024)
  • Catherine Evans – PhD Student MIBTP Case (2019-2023)
  • Muhammad Waqas Ali – PhD Student Commonwealth Scholar (2019-2023)
  • Joe Crudgington – Undergraduate summer student (2023)
  • Chesco Montardit – Visiting PhD student (2023)
  • Heidi Town – MSc Plant Genetics and Crop Improvement (2022-2023)
  • Buddhini Kiriwaththuduwa – MSc Plant Genetics and Crop Improvement (2022-2023)
  • Daniel Heath – MSc Plant Genetics and Crop Improvement (2021-2022)
  • Gaia Galiberti – Undergraduate summer student (2022)
  • Robbie Koh Chi Bin – Undergraduate summer student (2022)
  • Sophie Mogg – Research Technician (2021-2022)
  • Tayyaba Andleeb – Split-Site Commonwealth Scholar (2021-2022)
  • Arunkumar Ramesh – Postdoctoral Researcher (2021-2022)
  • Mahnoor Altaf – MSc Microbiology and Infection (dissertation project 2021)
  • Eve Briscoe, BSc Biochemistry (dissertation project, 2020-2021)
  • Grace Bale, MSci Biological Sciences (dissertation project, 2020-2021)
  • Heyang Li, MSc Molecular Biotechnology (dissertation project 2020)
  • Katie Hawkins, Undergraduate summer project student 2020, sponsored by the Rank Prize Funds
  • Ben Fisher, MSci Biochemistry (dissertation project, 2019-2020)
  • James Milson, BSc Biochemistry (dissertation project, 2019-2020)
  • Tianyuan Xu (Ryan), MRes Molecular and Cellular Biology (dissertation project, 2019-2020)
  • Nikita Mannar Chinna Durai, MSc Molecular Biotechnology (dissertation project, 2019-2020)
  • Sophie Hawkes, Technician, 2019
  • Zhitong Zeng, MSc Molecular Biotechnology (dissertation project 2019)
  • Isabel Keene, Undergraduate summer project student 2019, sponsored by the Rank Prize Funds