If Flower Bioengineering & Breeding sparks your curiosity, explore more at openflower.bio 🌸🧬 Designed and built by me, with love 🌱

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Starting next week we will begin revealing the results of our Flower Bioengineering genetic toolkit, all sponsored and synthesised by @genewiz.bsky.social Here’s a teaser of our first results. Can you guess what gene it is?? 🖤

So honored to receive the @socdevbio.bsky.social SciCom award and to share my work with the wonderful people in this community! This #2026SDB conference was a celebration of biodiversity 🧵

Congratulations to @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social, winner of the @socdevbio.bsky.social Trainee Science Communication Award at #2026SDB. Check out Nick's not-for-profit organisation for engaging the public with developmental biology: Open Flower

Open Flower

Flower Genetic Design

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Thank you @rburdine1.bsky.social !

Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD@rburdine1.bsky.social · last wk.

@nickdesnoyer.bsky.social is awarded the Trainee Science Communication award and shows us so much beauty in the world around us. His art and science spark joy for me without a doubt. Check him out if you haven't yet!

Check out this STUNNING snowberry clearwing moth that was found while I was volunteer bird banding this morning! #neature #MothWeek2026

There’s a magic to working with plants in the lab that I just can’t get over 🌱

Found this old botanical illustration of a chrysanthemum with a flower split perfectly red/white. Thought it was a very rare chimera, then my aunt sent me this zinnia doing something similar. Has anyone else seen this?

I found that H2O2 treatment of Petunia flowers creates a spotted pattern 😯 It's known oxidation degrades anthocyanins, but the pattern was unexpected! Any ideas @gardiner-lab.bsky.social @julianverdonk.eurosky.social ?

Meet Ruby Petunie! Our little alien Petunia growing in tissue culture ❤️🧬

Very grateful to receive this award and recognition :) Looking forward to meeting everyone at #2026SDB!

Society for Developmental Biology@socdevbio.bsky.social · 3w ago

🌼 We look forward to hosting Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social, a postdoc at the Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! Nicholas has been awarded the SDB Trainee Science Communication Award, check out his website to find out more! 🔬

The SynBio team’s plasmid collection is one of the coolest aspects of @thesainsburylab.bsky.social What’s even cooler is their vision of sharing it with everyone and the partners who are helping make it happen 💪 🧬

Sophien Kamoun@kamounlab.bsky.social · 4w ago

Just published: Community Spirit: Plasmids for All How a decade of plasmid-wrangling at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social grew into a movement — and the unexpected friends now helping us open the doors wider. medium.com/p/community-...

@breakliquid.bsky.social and I are delighted to say our OpenEVO preprint is finally live! An open source hand-made turbidostat that's modular, affordable, and made to be customized. Designed with love for the research community. Enjoy!!!💚 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

OpenEvo: An Open-Source Platform for Automated Evolution and Analysis

Here we introduce OpenEvo, a fully open-source, low-cost turbidostat platform for automated continuous culture and directed evolution experiments. Existing tools are expensive, complex, or lack open-s...

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Flower Design \ ˈflau̇(-ə)r di-ˈzīn \ 1. The shaping of floral traits by pollinators, breeders, and bioengineers.

This is huge progress for the EU 👏

Sophien Kamoun@kamounlab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

With new law, European Union can more quickly greenlight gene-edited crops www.science.org/content/arti...

Plant cell sculptures, hand-woven by @jodiearmand.bsky.social These are some of the coolest bio-inspired and bio-accurate works I've seen. Go check out her work!!

A wonderful few days in Rome discussing all things Petunia 🌸 Grateful to be part of such a welcoming and enthusiastic community.

petuniaplatform.org@petuniaplatform.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Back from World Petunia Days 2026 in Rome 🌸 Great meeting — familiar faces, new ones, and excellent science. The petunia community keeps growing. Already looking forward to the next one! #Petunia #PlantScience #WorldPetuniaDays2026 #WPD2026

No surprise here. Let Minya design a plant bio course and it’s guaranteed to be amazing.

闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD@minyaaa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This spring I took over and redesigned the only Gen Ed on plants here #IB103. We walked through every core aspect of plant bio in lectures & labs, but also through art & design. I had a blast, the evaluations are rewarding (4.9/5), the redesign got an award from the college, and a little press too!

🎨 Nature's been painting with betaxanthins and betacyanins all along — now you can too! Thanks to @kamounlab.bsky.social, AMBER and GOLD add new colors to the palette of pigmentation genes for plant research, education, and floral design. Find the plasmids here: www.addgene.org/browse/artic...

Nick Desnoyer@nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Genes for genetic painting in flowers now available on Addgene!: addgene.org/browse/artic...

Genes for genetic painting in flowers now available on Addgene!: addgene.org/browse/artic...

The name is FLOWER. OPEN FLOWER. #OpenFlower hits the big stage 🔥🌺🌷🌱 Juan Pablo & Nick @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social

In the middle of all the ugliness, plants keep doing their thing: quietly proving that beauty is still possible.

Lately all I do is talk about my @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social sponsorship... 🦖🧬✨ Free limited edition Plasmidsaurus x OpenFlower postcards extended to 3/16. Last chance!!!

plasmidsaurus@plasmidsaurus.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We teamed up with OpenFlower (@nickdesnoyer.bsky.social), a nonprofit creating designer flowers for art & education, to release 3 limited edition postcards! These flowers were powered by Whole Plasmid Sequencing from Plasmidsaurus. Want one? Just fill out the form! tinyurl.com/plasmidsauru...

Petunia hybrida has been bred into an incredible diversity of colors and patterns. Most arise from mutations in the anthocyanin pathway or post-transcriptional gene silencing that turns pigment genes on and off 🧬🎨

Probably the most unique and aesthetic lab website I’ve seen! I hope other labs find inspiration in this to make their own cool site ✨

Tatsuya Nobori@tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our lab website has been renewed! More updates to come. Check it out: noborilab.org

I made this green fluorescent flower with sequencing support from plasmidsaurus! 🦖🧬🌸✨ Limited edition postcards of the flowers below:

plasmidsaurus@plasmidsaurus.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We teamed up with OpenFlower (@nickdesnoyer.bsky.social), a nonprofit creating designer flowers for art & education, to release 3 limited edition postcards! These flowers were powered by Whole Plasmid Sequencing from Plasmidsaurus. Want one? Just fill out the form! tinyurl.com/plasmidsauru...

OpenCloning is legit Another example of a wizard making great free tools for everyone 👏

Manuel Lera-Ramirez@manu-lera.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚀 Excited to launch the #OpenCloning Assembler! 🧬 Built to demystify Golden Gate for beginners and save time for experts -> MoClo assembly blazing fast ⚡ ✍️ Use existing syntaxes or design your own! #SynBio #GoldenGate #MoClo #OpenSource #Biotech 👉 Try it: app.opencloning.org Feedback welcome!

Friday 20 Feb 2026 (15:00 UvA Science Park) “From Fertilization to Flower Design” by @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social From live imaging of pollen tube–synergid interactions in Arabidopsis and Petunia @petuniaplatform.bsky.social to flower genetic design. Host: Francesca Quattrocchio 🌺#PlantScience

Potato virus X (PVX) is a positive-sense RNA virus widely used as a model system for studying plant virus replication and movement. It also forms a pretty cool helical structure (much larger than shown here)