Sainsbury Laboratory

The Sainsbury Laboratory

Abbreviation	TSL
Formation	1988; 33 years ago (1988)
Type	Research institute
Headquarters	Norwich, UK
Key people	Nick Talbot Jonathan Jones Sophien Kamoun
Affiliations	University of East Anglia
Website	tsl.ac.uk

The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) is a research institute located at the Norwich Research Park (NRP) in Norwich, Norfolk, England, that carries out fundamental biological research and technology development on aspects of plant disease, plant disease resistance and microbial symbiosis in plants. It was founded in 1987.

Research[]

Training[]

TSL provides a training environment with the intention of preparing post-graduate students, post-doctoral scientists and early career project leaders to excel in their careers. This includes training from the expert technology groups in plant tissue culture and transformation, bioinformatics and computational biology, proteomics, and synthetic biology as well as mentoring from established scientists.

Facilities[]

TSL provides its researchers access to compute clusters, mass spectrometers, confocal high content screening microscopy and plant growth and transformation facilities.

Technology development[]

The four core technology teams of TSL develop new technologies to enhance TSL research and provide direct expert support and guidance to the other groups of TSL.

• Bioinformatics – Dr
• Proteomics – Dr
• Synthetic Biology –
• Tissue Culture and Transformation –

Notable people[]

A number of scientists have worked at TSL, including;

• David Baulcombe
• Jonathan D. G. Jones
• Martin Parniske
• Sophien Kamoun
• Nick Talbot

Funding[]

The Gatsby Charitable Foundation provide around 50% of funding for The Sainsbury Laboratory,^[1] with the remainder coming from competitive BBSRC and European Research Council grants.^[2]

See also[]

• Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University

References[]

External links[]

• Official web site
• Norwich Research Park
• Gatsby Charitable Foundation
• Two Blades Foundation