Welcome to our second cohort of interns

Welcome to our second cohort of interns

We are delighted to welcome our three new Centre for Forest Protection interns, who will be with us for six months, working alongside our Postdoctoral Research Associates. Eve, Phoebe and Sian are working on a range of forest protection research projects, building...
Improved ash reference genome

Improved ash reference genome

The Centre for Forest Protection team at Kew has just released and improved version of the reference genome for European Ash Fraxinus excelsior. To find out more, take a look at the blog by researcher Dr Daniel Wood.
Birch project teams meet up in Scotland

Birch project teams meet up in Scotland

Some of our researchers from Kew Science were up in Scotland this week visiting the other half of their project team. They met up with the Forest Research scientist at FR’s Northern Research Station just outside Edinburgh for project meetings. They followed this...
Out in the field

Out in the field

Danny, who is working on our ash pangenome, has been out in the field looking at symptoms on trees with ash dieback. Ash dieback is caused by an invasive fungus and is having a devastating affect on trees across the UK. Take a look at our projects to find out more...