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Hsuan Pai 白暄
@hsuanpai.bsky.social
Taiwan x Norwich, The Sainsbury Laboratory. Illustration works https://paiinthelab.blog/
My seedlings drawing is featuring the December issue of Plant Cell Environ cover!
I remember making this drawing during our holidays in Croatia 😆 What a justification for more holidays 😆😆
November 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Looking for a good read?

@tatsuyanobori.bsky.social is featured on The Scientist sharing his scientific journey from Japan to the UK.
“It circles back to my initial ecological interest and how single-cell level interactions might have a ripple effect on the actual ecosystem."
Living Maps: Uncovering the Spatial Biology of Plants
Tatsuya Nobori brings high-resolution multiomic approaches to plant biology to map how plants interact with microbes on a cellular level in 3D.
www.the-scientist.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The end of October
October 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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In case anyone wants to make a cool t-shirt, a high-definition PDF is available here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1704N...
NPlants_cover_AUG25_print.pdf
drive.google.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Biological Laboratory | LEGO® Ideas
This is a two-floor realistic Biological Laboratory building. In this design, I try to tell stories about biologists, introduce biology concepts to general publ…
beta.ideas.lego.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Fantastic hosting the @GoogleDeepMind team at TSL with @kamounlab.bsky.social 🌱

From AI in plant health to building scientific capacity, our missions clearly resonate!

Tools like AlphaFold can accelerate scientific breakthroughs in our field -holding real promise for global food security 🌍
October 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group ⁦‪at the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!
Understanding Host Compatibility in the Marchantia-Phytophthora System (CARELLA_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership
The fossil record demonstrates that filamentous microbes invaded ancient plant cells with intracellular hyphal structures over 450 million years ago. To this day, a rich diversity of extant land plant...
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk
October 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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We have a project available for 2026 NRP Doctoral Training Partnership entry (i.e. PhD studentship opportunity!)

How do cells communicate when it's hot?

Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out

biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...
How do cells communicate when it’s hot? (FAULKNER_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership
Plant cells are connected to their neighbours via ‘tubes’ called plasmodesmata, creating an interconnected cytoplasm that joins cells within and between tissues and organs.
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk
October 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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For more on petunia transposon patterns check out this paper or go follow
@atinygreencell.bsky.social
who designs petunia in his home lab!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The best part of preparing a digram is testing the colour scheme!
October 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Warming up for more E. coli drawings 😆🙏
October 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I'll be posting a Patreon post later today, but while I was writing it, I realised that I needed to produce an additional diagram because.... not many people seem to know how #Ginkgo actually grows!!!
Anyway, here's that diagram:
Ginkgo long shoot development.

#paleobotany #botany #plants #trees
August 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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My small contribution to the popularization of evolutionary biology during the #ESEB2025 week, thanks to this article on the evolution of rose breeding in The Conversation France.
If you read French, here it is: theconversation.com/comment-le-c...
If not, our Genetics paper: doi.org/10.1093/gene...
August 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Norwich 10K 2025
September 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“For each one of you that dies,
two shall take its place.”

Cut away dried-out roses - and their lateral shoots emerged with new buds 😳
August 31, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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How can we better understand the plant immune system? In my new @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social piece, I propose “immune cell states” as a framework for uniting molecular and cellular perspectives.

www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
August 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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🪼 How did the animal body plan evolve?

This ‘fundamental’ study in Clytia sheds light on how Wnt3 coordinates both gene expression and planar cell polarity during axis formation, offering key insights into the origins of morphogenesis.
buff.ly/lLJ33VF
#DevBio
July 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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There’s a famous chart from the Conservation Research Institute, which demonstrates this. GAZE UPON THESE ROOTS, YE MIGHTY AND DESPAIR.
July 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
#2025ISMPMI Cologne 13-17 July
Thanks everyone for visiting my stand! Our coordinating poster combo was fun :)
July 17, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Cosy dinner with Nobori lab members last night #2025ISMPMI

@siyusong.bsky.social
@hsuanpai.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Thrilled to share our latest preprint! This work started during my PhD and was finished together with @jmadhuprakash.bsky.social. We found a Phytophthora infestans L-shaped effector that bridges a host TOL protein to activated NLRs to suppress immunity!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/15
July 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Hot off the printer!

Our lab will be introducing PHYTOMap to the MPMI community. Interested in spatially mapping both microbiomes and plant gene expression? Come see our posters at #2025ISMPMI

P-315 by @siyusong.bsky.social
P-441 by @hsuanpai.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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2/ We used a poster about scale along with a giant tomato plant & aphid all designed by @hsuanpai.bsky.social to immerse kids into the world of plants and plant-pathogen interactions 🌿🦠

After meeting our giant aphid 🪲 they got to hunt the mini real-life versions on the tomato plant 🍅
July 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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1/ Last week we had the pleasure to share our passion for plant biology at the #RoyalNorfolkShow 🌾🌽
Huge thanks to the STEMM Village & our TSL volunteers!
Jennie, Kim @shaniakeh.bsky.social @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social @hsuanpai.bsky.social Phon, Shona @siyusong.bsky.social @adelineharant.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Showcasing the awesomeness of flower genetics at The Royal Norfolk Show along with artist @hsuanpai.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM