Xuan (Stephenson) Lai
@XuanLaiTW
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Ph.D. Candidate in @IPMBSinica at @AcadSinica Graduate from #PlantPathology at National Taiwan University Studying #Agrobacterium and c-di-GMP
Taipei City, Taiwan
Joined July 2014
I’m so glad I attended #2025ISMPMI. It was such a great experience to hear about so many fantastic research topics and meet wonderful people. Really learned a lot! 🧬🌱🦠✨
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Really enjoy catching up the latest research and presenting our works at #2025ISMPMI. Great to catch up with old friends and make new friends! Outstanding science and networking @XuanLaiTW @IPMBSinica
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#Agrobacterium-mediated transformation (AMT) is the key technology to advance research in #MPMI. Great to meet old friends and new folks working on #Agrobacterium biology or AMT. Nice chat over lunch #2025ISMPMI @IPMBSinica @AdamWu9527 @XuanLaiTW
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It was lovely to meet and have lunch with fellow #Agrobacterium researchers at the IS-MPMI 2025 conference. Great conversations, great discussions, and a shared passion for Agrobacterium-Plant research! 🌱🧫🦠 @erhminlai, @XuanLaiTW, @NoraLiu2000
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Great place to develop your independent career on #MPMI @IPMBSinica. We @AdamWu9527 @LaySunMa1 @KaWaiMa6 are here #2025ISMPMI. Welcome to talk to us to learn more about open #PI positions
📢 #AcademicJobs Tenure-track faculty positions in plant biology and plant-related microbiology Intramural funding, core facilities, generous startup, and a vibrant research environment at @IPMBSinica @AcadSinica #Taiwan
https://t.co/KlpSy2vMTI 🗓️ Deadline: Aug. 31, 2025
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The #Agrobacterium story is still unfolding. I am excited to share my recent research on cyclic dinucleotide regulation of #Agrobacteium secretion systems at #2025ISMPMI! 📍 Poster Session 1, P-154 (Jul 15)
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Excited to be at #2025ISMPMI, where it all began with #Agrobacterium as a key topic back in 1982, presenting my #Agrobacterium work in 2025, and actively seeking postdoc opportunities in Cologne.
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It’s a great pleasure to host colleagues from IPMB Academia Sinica @IPMBSinica and NTU to visit MPI Biology Tuebingen! We had a fruitful and fun symposium learning about diverse Host-Microbe Interactions! Thank you all for coming!
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Quantitative dissection of #Agrobacterium T-DNA expression in single plant cells reveals density-dependent #synergy and #antagonism
#PaperSharing
#NaturePlant
https://t.co/IgcxqG2Gqv
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Nature Plants - Alamos et al. show that Agrobacterium engages in density-dependent interactions that dictate transformation efficiency and transgene expression. These findings enable a quantitative...
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Excited to share our new work @mbiojournal reporting two #Agrobacterium DGC proteins control virulence and #T6SS interbacterial competition via distinct strategies. Congrats to 1st author, my PhD student @XuanLaiTW for the achievement and co-authors @yumanda31 @IPMBSinica.
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A new study shows a charged, folded protein can bind an #intrinsically #disordered protein (#IDP) without triggering structure formation. The charge drives specific, disordered, and tunable #interactions. #PaperSharing
#NatureCommunication
https://t.co/dLQnLrAs7S
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Nature Communications - The interaction between the polyelectrolytic IDP ProTα and a highly charged folded protein domain is investigated by integrating NMR, single-molecule FRET and MD...
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#NatureBiotechnology it's time to write science! Shiny title, simple and short writing without complicated thinking, just like talk to our parents. Writing, thinking, and communicating. https://t.co/XIyJKLO3QD
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Nature Biotechnology - An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write
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#Chemical #reviews Cell-Free Gene Expression: Methods and Applications The cell-free expression is what we need in the future, especially for expressing those toxic effectors. https://t.co/2YAWpdihBd
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#Nature Multi-pass, single-molecule nanopore reading of long protein strands Concept of nanopore sequencing for folded end-to-end protein domain by using ClpX unfoldase and CsgG nanopore. Protein sequencing will be easier someday future. https://t.co/dR9IkOLyiu
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Nature - A technique for threading long protein strands through a nanopore by electrophoresis and back using a protein unfoldase motor, ClpX, enables single protein molecules to be analyzed...
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Congrats to @XuanLaiTW my Ph.D student for being awarded 1st place in the poster presentation @ Annual Bacteriology Conference. Glad to see the active participation of my students in this important event gathering scientists working on #bacteria in #Taiwan. #ProudPI @IPMBSinica
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#Nature Powerful ‘#nanopore’ DNA #sequencing method tackles proteins too https://t.co/JebGSTiCH1
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Nature - Latest methods bring the speed, portability, and long read lengths of nanopore sequencing to proteomics.
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#NatureCommunication A genetically encoded biosensor to monitor dynamic changes of c-di-GMP with high temporal resolution #cdGreen2, faithfully tracks c-di-GMP in single cells and with high temporal resolution over extended imaging times https://t.co/YVusKGloZb
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Nature Communications - The ubiquitous second messenger c-di-GMP regulates many biological processes in bacteria, including cell cycle, motility, virulence and biofilm formation. Here, Kaczmarczyk...
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#NaturePlant Transgene-free genome editing of vegetatively propagated and perennial plant species in the T0 generation via a co-editing strategy https://t.co/nzUtHumO7E
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Nature Plants - Huang et al. develop a potent genome editing toolkit to generate transgene-free genome-edited plants in the T0 generation by co-editing of ALS gene (without obvious fitness costs)...
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Second time to hear the talk from Professor @TLowePower about deeper evolutionary analysis on #T6SS in different phylotype of #Ralstonia at #AcadSinica. So surprised that they have so many VgrG encoded in their genome!
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