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Hi! I’m Jiawen, a 3rd year PhD student at the John Innes Centre in the UK. I grew up in the Netherlands and did my undergraduate in Biochemistry at the University of Edinburgh. I work on the biochemical interactions involved in starch granule initiation in plastids, focussing on Arabidopsis and wheat. I would love to understand better how the size, shape and number of starch granules in chloroplasts and amyloplasts are regulated, and how this compares between different organs in one species as well as the same organs in different species. I love hearing about all kinds of exciting research in plant science and am excited to get more involved with the plant science community here!