Dr. Anne Osbourn is Professor at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK.

Her research group investigates plant-derived natural products - function, synthesis, and mechanisms of metabolic diversification. This research impacts on other fundamental aspects of biology such as chromosome structure and gene regulation, genome plasticity, diversification of function of enzymes and multi-component pathways and adaptive evolution.

The Osbourn group works with crop and model plants, using a wide range of multidisciplinary approaches that include genetics, genomics, computational biology, cell biology, protein and small molecule biochemistry.