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Taiwan x Norwich, The Sainsbury Laboratory. Illustration works https://paiinthelab.blog/

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Code by Claude Code, art by the irreplaceable @hsuanpai.bsky.social, and science by many.

Hope to fill this space with discoveries from our new lab @thesainsburylab.bsky.social!

03.03.2026 20:19 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Nobori Lab | The Sainsbury Laboratory Decoding the molecular and cellular basis of plant-microbe interactions. Single-cell and spatial omics of plant immunity. Led by Tatsuya Nobori at TSL, Norwich, UK.

Our lab website has been renewed! More updates to come.

Check it out: noborilab.org

03.03.2026 12:55 👍 30 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 3
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Spring ♥

02.03.2026 17:54 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Had a blast at the orchid exibition at Kew Gardens yesterday 😍

Highly recommended, and a great excuse to visit these beautiful and immense gardens! 🌱🌿

@vgeshkovski.bsky.social @adelineharant.bsky.social @hsuanpai.bsky.social @shaniakeh.bsky.social

@rbgkew.bsky.social

22.02.2026 10:18 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

PHYTOMap time, joined by @hsuanpai.bsky.social 🌱🔬

26.02.2026 17:23 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy Lunar New Year!

Thanks TSL for the best wishes -
I am running new experiments today 😆

17.02.2026 10:38 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Was a teaser course now I want to make more 😆

03.02.2026 22:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Got my piece from the ceramics carving workshop today! The glaze looks perfect ♥

01.02.2026 15:50 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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1/12 I'm ecstatic to share my preprint on legume NLR tissue expression! We investigated the NLRomes of 28 legumes + 4 outgroups, examining tissue expression across 7 legume species. Paper thread below 🧵👇
@thesainsburylab.bsky.social @itqbnova.bsky.social
🔗https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.25.701577

29.01.2026 11:05 👍 52 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 1

Spotted our very own @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social, @turchil.bsky.social and @vgeshkovski.bsky.social going through the JIC Historic Collections 👀

A wonderful resource well worth a visit! 📖🌷

30.01.2026 09:11 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you so much Mary! 🙏🙏🙏

30.01.2026 09:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you so much 🙌

30.01.2026 09:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks Vangeli! You're the best thesis writing pal 😆😆😆

30.01.2026 09:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you so much !!!

30.01.2026 09:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wonderful to see Pai’s outstanding contributions at TSL recognised in this way! Go, Dr Pai 🚀🚀🚀

28.01.2026 05:58 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!!! Miss you and Clem 🥹

30.01.2026 09:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Katamari & crochets & miniatures of all the things I love 💛💛💛

27.01.2026 21:19 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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So many details & hand crafts on my hat 🥺

27.01.2026 21:18 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A special day as we celebrate PhD of Dr Hsuan Pai @HsuanPai1

Pai has been a pillar @KamounLab @nobolly Labs over the years having contributed to research, method development, as well as science art and communication 🧬 🖼️ 😻

🙏 to viva examiners @EunyoungChae @Isabel_MonteG

26.01.2026 15:18 👍 50 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2

Thank you!!!

27.01.2026 21:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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白博士作成!全哥掛在嘴邊的玩笑終於成真... 從今天開始可以為大家提供清潔除蟑的服務😂

27.01.2026 20:59 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Sainsbury Laboratory is delighted to announce that it has received $2 million in funding as part of Google.org's $20 million AI for Science Fund to support organizations focused on cutting-edge AI for science research.
@kamounlab.bsky.social @amiralito.bsky.social

www.tsl.ac.uk/news/the-sai...

26.01.2026 17:34 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1

Got my PhD yesterday! Had a great discussion during my viva and I'm truly grateful for the support from my supervisors + examiners + friends and peers at TSL. Where I am today has been shaped by all of you — and exciting journeys ahead! 🎓✨

27.01.2026 20:54 👍 53 🔁 10 💬 6 📌 1

Thank you so much for taking the role and the long traveling here (+reading my thesis?!). It was my great honour to have you two brilliant examiners 🥹 I hope we have more opportunities working together in the future – both for science & sci-comm!

27.01.2026 20:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations, Dr @hsuanpai.bsky.social! Well done! 🥳🥳🥳

Thanks for the invitation, @kamounlab.bsky.social. It is always nice to discuss science with friends and colleagues @thesainsburylab.bsky.social, @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social

27.01.2026 10:29 👍 29 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
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Why I’m genetically engineering a rainbow flower…

And how a Russian fairy tale inspired the idea 🧵

16.01.2026 09:32 👍 71 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 2

Still a lot to discover! I wrote a short piece on flowering for
@the-node.bsky.social 🌺⏳ Thanks @turchil.bsky.social for the editing and @hsuanpai.bsky.social for the artwork 🤩🎨

16.12.2025 13:57 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
CC-NLRs exhibit diverse conformations in the resting state.
Figure depicts different NLR resting and activated states. While ZAR1 exists as a monomer bound to its guardees in its resting state, several forms have been observed for the NRC2 helper, including dimers, tetramers, and filaments. While filament-like structures were observed via confocal microscopy for NRC2 upon overexpression in planta, these structures were not detected for its paralog NRC4, suggesting a potentially different resting state configuration for NRC4. Our work suggests that the Pik CC-NLR pair forms a hetero-complex bound to the plasma membrane in its resting state. How effector binding to the integrated domain (ID) of the Pik-1 sensor leads to the activation of the complex remains to be determined.

CC-NLRs exhibit diverse conformations in the resting state. Figure depicts different NLR resting and activated states. While ZAR1 exists as a monomer bound to its guardees in its resting state, several forms have been observed for the NRC2 helper, including dimers, tetramers, and filaments. While filament-like structures were observed via confocal microscopy for NRC2 upon overexpression in planta, these structures were not detected for its paralog NRC4, suggesting a potentially different resting state configuration for NRC4. Our work suggests that the Pik CC-NLR pair forms a hetero-complex bound to the plasma membrane in its resting state. How effector binding to the integrated domain (ID) of the Pik-1 sensor leads to the activation of the complex remains to be determined.

Excited to share our latest work on plant immune receptor biochemistry! @kamounlab.bsky.social @hsuanpai.bsky.social @mpcontreras.bsky.social Jose Salguero Linares @danielluedke.bsky.social @adnroide.bsky.social @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

03.12.2025 09:20 👍 77 🔁 39 💬 3 📌 1
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Congrats to all the @thesainsburylab.bsky.social prize winners this year! A special shoutout to our own Phon Green for her incredible research support, especially managing a HUGE number of plants, from Arabidopsis to crops 🤯

19.11.2025 10:55 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Our new lab logo (created by the amazing @hsuanpai.bsky.social)!
tatsuyanobori.com

18.11.2025 10:44 👍 102 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0