Emma Markham 🧬

Senior Portfolio Manager for Food Security @BBSRC. 🌾🍎🌽
Member of @RoyalSocBio & @STEMAmbassadors. Editor for @WikiWomenInRed.
Oxfordshire Parish Counsellor

[Emma Markham 🧬 @GeneticCuckoo]

@daera_ni is recruiting members to a High-Level Science Advisory Group, for more information on how to apply: https://t.co/wBEej3wpw5

[Emma Markham 🧬 @GeneticCuckoo]

@BBSRC have just launched their community consultation to help shape their future strategy and priorities, get involved and have your say! 🗳📝✉🧬🌾🐏🦠
https://t.co/t87a8BSMTk

[Emma Markham 🧬 @GeneticCuckoo]

This is fantastic to see in the news today.
I have met Sabrina, and read her incredible life story to become a fire service chief in her book 'The Heat of the Moment'. She is an incredible and kind person and does amazing advocacy work for the homeless.
https://t.co/Q1s1sDxKnC

[Samuel West 💙💛 @exitthelemming]

Timpson’s are well-known for employing ex-offenders to help them back into work. They pay their tax. They value their staff. And then there’s this.

CEO James Timpson (who’s also Chair of the Prison Reform Trust) is the new Prisons Minister. Great appointment

[Emma Markham 🧬 @GeneticCuckoo]

Includes a Plant health spotlight, so definitely consider applying for Plant health resources to support your work! 🌱🌾🌽🫘📊🔬

[Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research @BBSRC]

Apply for funding to implement, improve or consolidate bioinformatics or biological resources in support of UK bioscience.

Now open - 2024 round of BBSRC’s Bioinformatics and Biological Resources Fund (24BBR).

Applicant briefing | 25 March at 11am:
https://t.co/rgjkV6AzeX

[Emma Markham 🧬 @GeneticCuckoo]

Are you interested in AI in bioscience research?
Join out network and community kick-off event in Jan!
https://t.co/axjkJOyaBe

[Emma Markham 🧬 @GeneticCuckoo]

International Collaboration Funding Opportunity: Future-proofing plants to a changing climate 🌱🌾
https://t.co/kfwIpOQvhL

[Emma Markham 🧬 @GeneticCuckoo]

@JamesBBSRC Yes, absolutely. Designing Future Wheat and several other projects are working directly with industry, and working on the current elite varieties of wheat, which is what the majority of farmers will and are growing, which is used for most of our bread-wheat products in the UK.

[Emma Markham 🧬 @GeneticCuckoo]

I feel honoured to manage the Wheat portfolio at BBSRC and to see the fantastic impacts we have achieved over the last decade. 🌾🍞🔬🧬

Check out our new report and thank you to all of our fantastic stakeholders who contributed!

[Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research @BBSRC]

BBSRC-funded wheat research has led to-

More resilient, sustainable varieties
Transformative advances in tools technologies and resources
A vibrant wheat research community
A projected GVA of £900m for the UK economy over 25 yrs

More in our new report ➡️https://t.co/1OqI3ZzHQN

[Emma Markham 🧬 @GeneticCuckoo]

@clangyandjammy Congratulations, this is so amazing, well done! 📕🎉

[Emma Markham 🧬 @GeneticCuckoo]

Fantastic opportunity for new graduates!🎓
Do you have a background in bioinformatics? Do you have an interest in coding or managing datasets? Do you have experience with SQL or are keen to learn? @BBSRC are recruiting! Salary £32K, hybrid working.
https://t.co/L1FX6A8mSN

[Emma Markham 🧬 @GeneticCuckoo]

@alexeome @Twitter @elonmusk From my perspective, they just want to drive everyone off Twitter onto other platforms.

[Microbiota and Host @MicrobiotaHost]

Happy #WorldMicrobiomeDay!
A fascinating introduction by Dr João Mota @Pharmabiotic on the role of the gut #microbiome in human disease and potential therapeutic interventions #Microbiomes4Life

[Emma Markham 🧬 @GeneticCuckoo]

Just steeping for 24hrs in honey water to enfuse before bottling

[Emma Markham 🧬 @GeneticCuckoo]

Making elderflower cordial with the last of this year's blooms

[Emma Markham 🧬 @GeneticCuckoo]

Really exciting to see Millet in the news, as it's such an important subsistence crop for much of the world but is often overlooked 🌾 @IYM2023 https://t.co/JGWLXX9OXg

[Emma Markham 🧬 @GeneticCuckoo]

Beautiful view last night watching the sun set at Avebury for the Solstice

[Emma Markham 🧬 @GeneticCuckoo]

Funding opportunity: Equitable nature-based climate resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa
https://t.co/Dh2NNCzuSD

[Emma Markham 🧬 @GeneticCuckoo]

Exciting advances in crop breeding and sustainability, baked beans could soon be grown in the UK 🫘
@uniofwarwick @WarwickCrop
https://t.co/HJKSxI2ZPl

[Emma Markham 🧬 @GeneticCuckoo]

Exciting new funding opportunity for interdisciplinary & cross-sector research 🌍🍽️🧬🦟🌳
#HealthResearch #DietandHealth #FoodWaste
https://t.co/GXbKBruDLI