Nicholas Provart
@bar-plantbio.bsky.social
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!
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...
October 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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...
Excited to be at the Gordon Research Conference on Single Cell Approaches for Plant Biology in lovely Portland, Maine!
August 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Excited to be at the Gordon Research Conference on Single Cell Approaches for Plant Biology in lovely Portland, Maine!
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! 🌱💻
July 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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! 🌱💻
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 🌎!
June 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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 🌎!
Last day of #icar2025. It was great to catch up with @tairnews.bsky.social and @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social!
June 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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.
June 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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.
June 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Beautiful 4D imaging and subsequent quantification for understanding root development by Keiji Nakajima 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.
June 19, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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.
Checking out the Cell-Cell Communication concurrent session at #icar2025 in the beautiful STAM Refectory. Up first, Christine Faulkner...
June 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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.
June 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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.
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!
June 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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!
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).
June 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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.
June 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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.
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.
June 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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.
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.
June 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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.
June 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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.
#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.
June 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
#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!
June 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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
June 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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!
June 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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!