Hybrid 🇨🇵🇲🇽 Postdoc at the John Innes Centre, UK Gene editing on potato for improved quality and nutritional traits 🌱🥔 He/Him
Norwich, England
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With the pressure of the thesis building up it was really nice to take a small break and give a talk at #plastidpreview2025 Always happy to give diploid potatoes a moment to shine.
The Seung and Webster labs strongly representing @JohnInnesCentre – at Colchester, England
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I hope everyone enjoys a fabulous Easter Break, and that you are all looking forward to an amazing Slice of Science on Friday 25th April! Come listen to talks from @Thomnavsens of the JIC and @RyanCookAMR from QIB! The session will be held in the BCRE Lecture Theatre 🧪🥼🦠🐰
ALT Promotional poster for a science event titled “Slice of Science.” The event takes place on Friday, April 25th at 3 PM at the Bob Champion Lecture Theatre. The poster features two talks: Thomas Navarro – “You gotta starch somewhere! Potato crop improvement through novel breeding platforms.” Group Leader: Dr. David Seung. Ryan Cook – “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: What’s Keeping Me up at Night in Viromics.” Group Leader: Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens. At the bottom, it mentions that food and drinks will be served from 4 PM onwards. The Twitter / Bluesky handle @SliceScienceUEA is included. There is an image of the lecture theatre building in the center, a QR code in the top right, and logos for “Slice of Science” and the University of East Anglia (UEA) at the bottom.
What an exciting opportunity to take part at #NoCaSS2024 representing my PhD potato research from @JohnInnesCentre
Happy to have chaired a talk session, present a poster, AND win the poster prize alongside my labmate @ciaraobrien333 Great time to be part of the Seung lab. – at Cambridge, England
What a fun time I had at presenting my poster for #PlantBio2024 by @ASPB. Standing up with joy for my diploid potatoes 🥔
Proud to represent the @JohnInnesCentre and @NRPBIODTP all the way in Honolulu, and connect with wonderful scientists across the world. – at Honolulu, HI
Learning about the "new kid on the block" aka Artificial Intelligence. Closing @pintofscience festival with this hot topic! Our second presenter is the head of computing science at @uniofeastanglia, Beatriz de la Iglesia, who's giving us a great.crash course on AI.
#computing – at Norwich, England
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For a light hearted activity we asked for some volunteers to “poop the potato” beautifully demonstrated by @BridgeEdmund
It's done! How fun was it to talk about #starch! Thank you so much @pintofscience for the opportunity and thank you to the very engaged audience. Proud to represent @JohnInnesCentre – at Norwich, England
Next up we had @Thomnavsens who used his talk as an opportunity to give everyone food envy whilst teaching us about resistant starch 🥔🍝
#pint24 @pintofscience @JohnInnesCentre
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Learning all about the dinner of tomorrow tonight with lots of fluffy friends #pint24 @pintofscience
Kicking off the second day of @pintofscience ! Particularly excited because I'll be talking about #starch and #potatoes in a bit 🙌🏼 – at Norwich, England
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My favourite part of Day 1 of #pint24 had to be our high octane syringe filtering race! Thanks to @BridgeEdmund for putting it together 🧪🥼
Some very exciting potato activities for tonights's event incoming...
@pintofscience @EarlhamInst
Second talk of our first night, @MiaBerelson from @EarlhamInst is blowing our minds by teaching us how to identify plant diseases from sequencing... wait for it... The AIR! 🤯reindeer
@pintofscience #pint24 – at Norwich, England
It is Pint of Science time! Tomorrow kicks off three nights of fun, chilled, and accessible science talks. Please join me tomorrow as I will host the first night of events with two fascinating talks. Get your tickets below!
#pintofscience
pintofscience.co.uk/event/fi…
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What a week for our new policy placement student @Aston_Saini! Day two and he's already meeting the Farming Minister.
Read his news story here:
jic.ac.uk/news/defra-ministe…
My potato plants are in the video! And so am I... But what is more important is the precision breeding act. @DefraGovUK opening the doors towards improved agriculture. Excited to see the future of this!
#agriculture #potato
Changes we’ve made to legislation mean that scientists can now develop:
🌾 More resilient wheat
🍓 Longer flowering strawberries
🍅 Vitamin D-packed tomatoes
Using #ScienceAndTechUK for more nutritious and resilient crops makes it good news for consumers and our farmers.
It was a pleasure to talk about the future of potatoes and the potential of precision breeding to deliver healthier potatoes with improved quality to consumers. Let's make it a reality!
#FoodSecurity #potatoes
Great to welcome Mark Spencer MP @Mark_Spencer, Food and Farming Minister @DefraGovUK to @NorwichResearch today for a tour of our facilities and to discuss the innovative research currently being carried out 🔬🌾
Last week the Seung Lab PhD students from @JohnInnesCentre attended the annual Plastid Preview taking place at the beautiful New College in Oxford.
Two talks and a poster represented our starch research. So proud of @Rose_McN who won best talk for the conference!
#starch – at Colney, England
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What an incredible group of proud scientists we have across the @NorwichResearch park @NorwichPride 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ we are very lucky to share this space with them from @TheQuadram @JohnInnesCentre @EarlhamInst @TheSainsburyLab @uniofeastanglia @NNUH
Proud scientists from @TheSainsburyLab @JohnInnesCentre @EarlhamInst @TheQuadram @uniofeastanglia @NNUH @NorwichResearch at @NorwichPride #LGBTQ
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Our durum wheat developing endosperm transcriptome is now published! :) We've added some extra comparisons to the hexaploid wheat transcriptome and some qRT-PCR. Many thanks to all involved!
bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.c…
To accompany our recent preprint where we present a protein that influences starch granule initiation during grain development, here is the RNAseq we performed on Kronos durum wheat endosperm throughout grain development!
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Look at these pretty grains!
I've presented again! I always am nervous but always en up having fun when doing it 😁
#potato – at Colney, England
@Thomnavsens presenting his work, “Lost in transcription: Profiling the mRNA and miRNA transcriptome of diploid potato” 🥔🤏🧬
And ready for the last day of the conference @SEBiology
I am very excited to watch this panel of 100 years of SEB plant!
#SEBconference – at Edinburgh, Scotland
ALT This photo shows a TV screen with the flyer of the panel for 100 years of SEB plant being projected