John Innes Centre A research facility and foundation decdicated to the research and training used for the advancement of genetics in the environment, particulaly within the study of genetic modification to plants and crops. The facility was one of the leading centres in research at the time of the genetically modified crops debate and so their trial farm land was often targeted by protestors and many of the scientists who worked at the centre were interviewed by press along with sending correspondence to other scienctists regarding the debate. The centre was the biggest supporter of the farm-scale trials and subsequent debate, however, once the growing and selling of gm crops was banned in the Uk and Europe funding to the Research centre was cut dramatically. Despite this research is still ongoing at the centre through funding from donations and the foundation.

(Active 2013 -) Director of the Scientific Alliance Livermore trained as a chemist and spent much of his professional life working for companies in the food and agriculture sectors, such as Unilever, Dalgety and DuPont. As a freelance science communicator, he becomes actively involved in several key science policy issues, including climate change and its effect on biotechnology. Livermore also leads a module at University of Cambridge in Biotechnology Enterprise which covers agricultural and industrial biotechnology.