Nicholas Provart
The Bio-Analytic Resource encompasses more than 200 databases of plant genomic data (for transcriptome data, protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions, protein 3D structures, variation and more) with numerous tools for data visualization, e.g. ePlants!
- Registration is still open for the Plant Cell Atlas' Data Reproducibility for Plant Single Cell data workshop, online! www.plantcellatlas.org/events.html?...
- Reposted by Nicholas ProvartCSB has amazing undergrads! A BCB project student in the @bar-plantbio.bsky.social lab developed a visualizer for the Oat Pangenome, leading to a paper in Nature! csb.utoronto.ca/bcb-undergra...
- Reposted by Nicholas ProvartWere you considering applying to the 2026 GRC on Salt and Water Stress? Do you want to give an oral presentation? We are over 60% full, so apply soon! Consideration for oral presentations from submitted abstracts will occur on March 9, 2026. www.grc.org/salt-and-wat... Please re-post!
- Reposted by Nicholas Provart"Thank you!" Read more here: arabidopsis.org/news/breaking-news#303 #News
- Reposted by Nicholas ProvartNow available! The NAASC 2025 Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Awards Webinar featuring Natanella Illouz-Eliaz (early career recipient), Dawn Nagel, Nicholas Provart & Anna Stepanova (later career recipients). Congratulations to these community role models! youtu.be/Lqatc-yUpmY
- Reposted by Nicholas Provart🚨We’re hiring! Please help spread the word! Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is recruiting a pre-doctoral intern to work on plant immunity research. Ideal for those who are planning to pursue a PhD and seeking research experience. tatsuyanobori.com
- 📣 VACANCY: Predoctoral Intern in the Nobori group @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social Join the team to work on plant immunity research at single-cell and spatial resolution 🌱 Apply online, deadline 26 Jan 2026 www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t... #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs
- Reposted by Nicholas Provart@maizegdb.bsky.social posted on the other site about a phishing attempt
- Reposted by Nicholas ProvartFolks, our research group is looking for a new recruit. A research technician position is available (48 month contract). Please repost. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
- Reposted by Nicholas ProvartInterested in learning about the latest and greatest research in how plants respond to excess salt, too little or too much water? Come to the GRC in Salt and Water Stress in Switzerland. Lots of opportunities for all career levels. www.grc.org/salt-and-wat.... Please repost!
- Reposted by Nicholas ProvartOct 24th (Friday) - The EARLY BIRD registration and abstract submission DEADLINE for the 2025 #CSPB_ERM is in TWO DAYS! @cspbscbv LINK HERE: event.fourwaves.com/erm2025 Early bird discounted rates: $25 for #CSPB student members and $40 for postdoc members!
- Very happy to see our work out examining guard cell transcriptomes over the course of a slowly developing drought. Thanks to @bradylabs.bsky.social and @kaisakajala.bsky.social for the inspiration, way back in Davis in 2013! The data are available in bar.utoronto.ca/eplant & doi.org/10.1093/plce...
- See link for a Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee (MASC) effort that aims to provide support for colleagues who have had their funding cut for reasons outside their control, e.g. recently in Argentina and the USA. Please share widely and email Thorsten Hamann! tinyurl.com/MASC-Support...
- Reposted by Nicholas ProvartRSVP to join the October 29th webinar and hear from the 2025 Arabidopsis Community Impact Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards @jadebleau.bsky.social sky.social @jfriesner.bsky.social sky.social @josedinneny.bsky.social eny.bsky.social
- Reposted by Nicholas ProvartCall for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
- Excited to be at the Gordon Research Conference on Single Cell Approaches for Plant Biology in lovely Portland, Maine!
- Reposted by Nicholas Provart🚨 A postdoc position is open in the Wilkins Lab (@oli-wilkins.bsky.social) at @umanitoba.bsky.social! Join C-SPIRIT, a global research center advancing sustainable agriculture through plant & microbe science! (c-spirit.org) 📬 Apply here: viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX... #PlantScience
- If you want to learn more about single cell approaches for plant biolgy, join us in Portland, Maine August 10-15. The application deadline has been extended to July 21st. We've got a great roster of speakers and topics! www.grc.org/single-cell-...
- Thanks, @asherpasha.bsky.social for updating Thalemine!
- BAR ThaleMine has been upgraded to version v5.1.0-20250704. So, we have InterMine software v5.1.0 and data as of 4th July 2025. Cc: @bar-plantbio.bsky.social #arabidopsis #plantbio #intermine
- Reposted by Nicholas ProvartCritical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (CASP) — the competition to predict protein structure that helped fuel AlphaFold — will run out of funding from the NIH and UC Davis in a few weeks.
- At CSHL's Frontiers and Techniques in Plant Science course to tell students about plant bioinformatics! I added an scRNA-seq part to the gene expression lab, it's also available online at www.coursera.org/learn/plant-..., you can audit for free! 🌱💻
- Reposted by Nicholas ProvartThe June 2025 issue of C-SPIRIT News is out now! This month features a spotlight on Aim 2, new research highlights, an institutional feature on the University of Toronto, and more! 📰 Read: qrco.de/bg73na 🔔 Subscribe: forms.gle/MtFfdJoPaeWw... 🔗 Learn more about C-SPIRIT: c-spirit.org #PlantScience
- Reposted by Nicholas ProvartMeet The Speakers of the Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology GRC Conference! To Apply to the GRC: lnkd.in/gvkMxuKR To Learn More About Dr. Shahan's Research: sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mcdb-shahan/ @rachelmshahan.bsky.social
- At the Phytochemical Society of North America annual meeting, at York University in Toronto. There's lots of biochemistry! And it's small, so there are no concurrent sessions, so you don't have the tyranny of choice. Ryo Yokoyama from U. Missouri tells us how plants are the best chemists on earth 🌎!
- Reposted by Nicholas ProvartMy friends (and former students) at #HBC @harvardcchange.bsky.social are doing a Zoom #workshop in #Bioinformatics | Cells to Insights: An Introduction to R and single-cell RNA-seq analysis | #RStats #RNA-Seq 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 ⬇️ hbctraining.github.io/external/HBC...
- Last day of #icar2025. It was great to catch up with @tairnews.bsky.social and @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social!
- Checking out the concurrent session on environmental modulation of plant defence responses co-chaired by Danve Castroverde and Huilan Sun..up first, Sheng Yang He.
- Beautiful 4D imaging and subsequent quantification for understanding root development by Keiji Nakajima in the 5th plenary session at #icar2025.
- Incredible work by Kirsten ten Tusscher modeling possible patterns of lateral root formation in the 5th plenary session at #icar2025.
- Plenary 5 at #icar2025 on Quantitative Biology chaired by Devang Mehta opens with Daphne Ezer talking about plants over time. She introduces AraLETa to infer cell-type specific expression patterns from bulk RNA-seq data.
- Outside #icar2025 this morning!
- Checking out the Cell-Cell Communication concurrent session at #icar2025 in the beautiful STAM Refectory. Up first, Christine Faulkner...
- Nice talks to round out the 4th plenary session on biotic interactions at #icar2025 by Jyothilakshmi Vadassery and Yu-hang Chen on calcium signaling in herbivore- and bacterial-plant interactions. Roles for CNGC13/19 channels and ZAR1/Sr35 resistosomes in these systems, respectively.
- WeiTsing (a "mini-resistosome" for club root resistance in brassica) is also a Ca2+ channel.
- Hailing Jin in the 4th plenary session at #icar2025 tells an intriguing story of cross-kingdom RNA trafficking via extracellular vesicles, detected with Broccoli (mRNAs), TRAP-seq, and YFP fusions, that deliver anti-microbial peptides to Botrytis. And engineered bacteria to do the same... awesome!
- Happening now in Anatomisch Theater at #icar2025: MASC-led discussions on potential ways to help with cuts to US (plant) science.
- Checking out the Cell Wall Diversity in Development and Stress concurrent session at #icar2025 co-chaired by Kaisa Kajala @kaisakajala.bsky.social (IRL) and Laura Ragni (virtually).
- 3rd plenary session of #icar2025 on plant development featured nice talks by Matyas Fendrych, Gwyneth Ingram, and Javier Botto. MF showed a cool cell wall-anchored pH sensor, WALL-Phi, that his lab used to show alkaline (!) growth happens in the root elongation zone.
- Yiliang Ding talks about using generative AI for plant genomic data in the AI workshop at #icar2025.
- Yiliag's PlantRNA-FM (trained foundation model for plant) can identify secondary structures that promote or inhibit translation...and the Kozak sequence, without being told what to look for!
- PlantDNA-FM and PlantScience.ai (plant-specific knowledge graph) coming soon!
- Checking out the Large AI Models session at #icar2025, in Ghent's former Anatomisch Theater (the short pillar was used to support cadavers for teaching). Runxuan Zhang is chairing.
- Leah Band models gibberellin gradients in the Computational Modeling session of #icar2025
- Checking out the Computational Modeling session of #icar2025 in the conference centre's Kraakhouse (former hospital of Ghent) with work on vernalization by Rea Antoniou- Kourounioti.
- 2nd set of plenary talks at #icar2025 by Jenny Russinova, Yan Ma, and Haodong Chen focus on brassinosteroid signaling, how signaling specificity is achieved, and gravitropism. YM presented a cool Arabidopsis-Swedish midge system to help understand how insects can co-opt development to make galls.
- HC presented beautiful work getting to the root of how LAZY proteins interact with starch granules to sense gravity.
- #icar2025 continues with 3 nice plenary talks by Julia Bailey-Serres, Phil Wigge and Christa Testerink on abiotic stress responses, with translational aspects for hypoxia/IDRs from JB-S/PW labs and a deep dive into salt stress and modulation by ABA in Arabidopsis by CT.
- I am honoured to have received a "Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge" award by NAASC at #icar2025, along with 3 others! Thanks to @asherpasha.bsky.social for tending the BAR and to the many students who have helped in this dissemination over the years, and to you for citing us!
- Two nice keynotes from @parkergroup.bsky.social and Paula Casati on how Arabidopsis responds to different environmental stimuli (pathogens and UV-B) #icar2025
- ICAR2025 kicks off with a brief history of plant biotechnology (started in Ghent in the early 1980s). Intro by Tom Beeckman, with an accompanying string quartet!
- Reposted by Nicholas ProvartWe will be at ICAR 2025 presenting the latest updates in the Arabidopsis Informatics Session, June 19 from 1400-1530 in the Concerthall. Swing by our booth for some special swag. #TAIR #ICAR2025 #arabidopsis
- Reposted by Nicholas ProvartSpeakers: Marek Mutwill, U of Copenhagen Nuria De Diego, Palacky U @nuriadediego.bsky.social Czechia Dajo Smet, VIB-UGent Shou-Ling Xu, Carnegie Institution for Science Nicholas Provart, BAR, U of Toronto @bar-plantbio.bsky.social Tanya Berardini, TAIR
- Come to Portland, Maine and present at the Gordon Research Conference on Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology! Short talk submissions are open until this Wednesday. All other applications for this conference are due July 13th. To apply: bit.ly/ApplyforGRC (submit as a poster abstract)
- Reposted by Nicholas ProvartWe have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095
- Reposted by Nicholas ProvartDid you miss one of the sessions of our Plant Identity Webinar Series? Check out our YouTube Page to catch up on some of the talks from this series! www.youtube.com/@PlantCellAt...
- The National Biology Competition is a great opportunity for high school students to demonstrate their proficiency and comprehension of biology 🐸🌿🧫- schools should register any interested students by April 14th at biocomp.utoronto.ca!
- The annual National Biology Competition (NBC) allows high school students to showcase their knowledge and understanding of biology. 🧪 This year’s competition will be held at participating schools worldwide from 10:00 EST on April 16 to 16:00 EST April 17, 2025. Learn more at biocomp.utoronto.ca
- Reposted by Nicholas ProvartBig news for #GreatLakes region plant scientists! Travel awards are available now for the 1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference! Trainees can apply for a $300 travel grant to support their trip to Lansing, MI! #GLPSC2025 🚗➡️ Learn more and apply by April 30: research.msu.edu/glpsc2025
- Want to travel to Portland, Maine and present at the Gordon Research Conference on Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology? Short talk submissions are open until April 30, 2025. All other applications for this conference are due July 13th. To apply: bit.ly/ApplyforGRC (submit as a poster abstract)
