Nick Desnoyer
@NickDesnoyer
Postdoc and level 5 Plant Programmer 🧬 Engineering new types of flowers for art and education
In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹 Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)
3D paper model of the Arabidopsis Micro-Rose for templating and prototyping my genetic design concepts 🌸🧬 Thank you @HsuanPai1 for this ✨
This is still my favourite time-lapse I've made 🌱 A tiny mustard seed (half a millimetre) germinating into a seedling. 7 days in 9 seconds.
In 2007, physicist Freeman Dyson wrote an essay called “Our Biotech Future” for The New York Review. In it, he wrote: “I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry…becoming small and domesticated rather than big and…
First micro-rose to bloom at @TheSainsburyLab ! Progress slowed a bit with moving, but I’m back at it. First up: make the genetic color palette 🎨🧬
SO excited to share that I’ve been awarded a grant from @osventuresllc to develop a genetic toolkit for flower design! Here was my 1-minute pitch. To everyone who’s supported my art over the years, thank you. So much to come 🌹✨
Showcasing the awesomeness of flower genetics at the Royal Norfolk Show along with artist @HsuanPai1 @TheSainsburyLab
Testing samples for a Flower Biodesign clothing line 🧬 🌹 More coming soon..
Thrilled to share that I’ve moved to the UK to join the brilliant Kamoun group! Excited to dive deep into the world of NLRs and plant–pathogens 🧬🦠—and of course, to keep breeding my collection of Arabidopsis roses 🌹✨
It’s a great pleasure to welcome Nick @NickDesnoyer to the lab! Nick completed his PhD on plant sexual reproduction at Uni Zurich. You also know him for his creative synthetic biology project — engineering an Arabidopsis rose. Nick is passionate about #scicom and has a unique…
Presented my art project on flower genetic design to a room full of charismatic and brilliant scientists in Prague yesterday. Life is cool 😎 #theconferencetoendallconferences
Found two of natures best flower designs today: Dianthus barbatus (left), Saxifraga umbrosa (right)
"Reimagining Arabidopsis as a platform for flower design" Title of my talk for Woodstock Bio + Night Science! #conferencetoendallconferences
Hi I’m Nick, I design flowers using genetic engineering as an art form 🧬 🌹 Here’s my card:
Finally, some plants at the Natural History Museum of @UZH_en! 🌱 Beautifully designed installation and honored to have some of my videos included!
