Wendy Harwood

Prof. Wendy Harwood is Head of the Crop Transformation Group at the John Innes Centre, Norwich where she also manages the BRACT Crop Transformation / Genome Editing Platform. She gained a BSc in Biological Sciences from King’s College, University of London and a PhD in Plant Biotechnology from the John Innes Institute / University of East Anglia. Wendy’s expertise includes genetic modification (GM) technologies in a range of crop species and more recently, the development and application of genome editing technologies in crops.

She lectures at both the Universities of East Anglia and Cambridge; holds an Honorary Readership at the University of East Anglia and a Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Wendy is active in public engagement, communicating a complex area of science to different audiences through a range of media.

Stephanie Norwood

Stephanie is a coordinator for OpenPlant and the Cambridge Synthetic Biology Strategic Research Initiative. She organises a wide range of events such as Cafe Synthetique and the SynBio Forum that bring together students, researchers and external collaborators around synthetic biology.

She also manages the Biomaker initiative that provides funding for interdisciplinary team-based projects at the intersection of engineering, biology, design, and low-cost instrumentation.