Sreya Ghosh Sreya, from India, is a PhD candidate working under the guidance of Brande Wulff at the John Innes Centre (JIC), in the UK, where she focuses on understanding and exploiting genes controlling resistance to leaf rust in wheat. Sreya completed her Bachelor’s in Technology at the National Institute of Technology in Durgapur, India, with a major in Biotechnology in 2015. A final year internship at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, instilled a desire to work in crop science. She joined Wulff’s lab in 2015 as an intern to experience wheat research before commencing her PhD.