E. Han Tan

@ekhtn.bsky.social / I like plants / 🏳️‍🌈 {he/him} / Lab @UMaine = @haploidgenomics / Potato Breeding & Genetics / Made in Borneo

[E. Han Tan @ekhtn]

@JacquelynGill @FernDoctor @DukeU Amplifying this as a Duke alum who got started in plant research at @DukeU, this saddens me deeply because my fascination and appreciation of botany started in this herbarium. Having only worked in the lab setting, being in the herbarium was a big ‘aha’ moment for me 🌱🌏

[E. Han Tan @ekhtn]

Favorite tracheophyte of the month during a visit to El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico is this Pleurothallis ruscifolia doing its thing 🔅💛

[Bangor Fire Dept. @BangorFireDept]

Looks like @PBunyan still takes down an occasional tree! Here he is standing tall admiring his work out front of the @CICBangor #HurricaneLee

[E. Han Tan @ekhtn]

Finally flowered after five years…Anyone familiar with Hoya know this one? Is it just a cultivar of H. carnosa? @HoyaPlants #hoya #houseplanthour

[E. Han Tan @ekhtn]

Cypripedium acaule in northern Maine #planthour #botany

[E. Han Tan @ekhtn]

@CellBioEd I’ll send you one!

[E. Han Tan @ekhtn]

The 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 🥔 is here! We will have these stickers available to the potato community while stocks lasts. DM me for details.

[E. Han Tan @ekhtn]

@CcrClot Just found a paper that describes adaxial/abaxial epidermis of petals—so this is adaxial patterning here. What’s weird is that the no-color sectors do not affect the abaxial side on this but it does continue on for the flowers in your banner pic!

[E. Han Tan @ekhtn]

Found the most unexpected and pleasing behind the petal (is there’s a botanical term for this?) flower phenotype today. At first glance it looked like columbine flowers to me 🥹 #potato #solanum

[E. Han Tan @ekhtn]

A few scenes from our winter crossing block—flowers from two F1 diploid potato siblings #potato #potatobreeding @UMainePotato @SCRI2xPotato

[Pauline Kamath @paulinekamath]

A #postdoc position is open in my lab @UMaine to study pneumonia in deer using a metagenomic approach! Apply at the link below to come join my lab, and work with great collaborators @WDNR, @UWMadison, and @USGS!

https://t.co/426swhksn2

[E. Han Tan @ekhtn]

*Quote from Wallace was from The Malay Archipelago, 1869

[E. Han Tan @ekhtn]

Tropical fruit bowl featuring one of my favs of all time—mangosteen aka her majesty 👸🏻 of fruits 🥹 💜, of which Alfred Russel Wallace wrote, “whose refreshing and cooling qualities are so wholesome…a food of the most exquisite flavour it is unsurpassed.”

[E. Han Tan @ekhtn]

I would add that one of the most alluring aspects when eating a freshly picked, tree ripened mangosteen is its mysterious and indescribable “flavor” that is all at once sweet, tart, juicy, slightly creamy yet perfectly balanced—a truly magnificent food

[Luca Comai @lucacomai]

So, you think you know what potato variety you are working with? Admirable sleuthing by Kirk Amundson in tracking down the elusive origin of a potato clone once thought to be Desiree. The story of Red Polenta: https://t.co/abEMAJ7I9K

[Charles Skold 🏳️‍🌈 @CharlesSkold]

On Wednesday, Maine will be the only State where women lead the top post in all three branches of government: Gov. Janet Mills, Chief Justice Valerie Stanfill, and Speaker of the House Rachel Talbot Ross.
Proud to serve under their leadership and cast my vote for @RTalbotRoss!

[E. Han Tan @ekhtn]

I seem to have sprouted a new gray, furry plant on this seedling mat… 😹 #caturday

[FoxLabNC @FoxLabNC]

https://t.co/zly8CaXs4w
This meeting will be AMAZING! Calling all #polyploidy researchers! So excited to see polyploidy crystalizing as a recognized field spanning broad disciplines and models. Kudos to the organizers
@soltislab
@shyama13
@WuMinDeng
@vickifly1

[E. Han Tan @ekhtn]

Cat on a lap for your morning commute #CatsOfTwitter #scicat

[E. Han Tan @ekhtn]

Boosting this—two more weeks to apply to this potato breeding position!

[E. Han Tan @ekhtn]

The application for the Assistant/Associate Potato Breeding and Genetics position at UMaine is now live! 🥔🍟🌱 #potato #plantbreeding #plantscience https://t.co/aG6RZy6k8Q