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Nicholas Provart

@bar-plantbio.bsky.social
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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!

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C-SPIRIT @c-spirit.org · 28/09/2026
🌱 New plant single-cell resource! Developed with input from C-SPIRIT & PCA, the BAR Single Cell Data Portal brings together scRNA-seq datasets, CellxGene & the new SUPeR Viewer to explore gene expression across plant cell types. 🔬🧬 🔗 bar.utoronto.ca/single_cell_... #plantscience
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Check out the BAR's Single Cell Data Portal at bar.utoronto.ca/single_cell_..., in beta. There's a curated list of scRNA-seq datasets with viewer links, our own CellxGene instance for exploring 14 datasets from 6 papers, and a new tool, SUPeR Viewer! Thanks to PCA and C-SPIRIT for input.
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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Are you heading to #PAG34 in 2027? We are looking for speakers for the Arabidopsis Informatics sesson to share interesting data and tools, especially if you have been working with the new TAIR12 release data. Comment here or email us by November 1,2026 @bar-plantbio.bsky.social
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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Want to view and compare data from TAIR12/Col-CCv.2 and Araport11/TAIR10 side-by-side? JBrowse2 now displays both assemblies, each with their own separate track selectors, by default. www.arabidopsis.org/news/breakin... #PlantScience #PlantBiology #Arabidopsis
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The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Reimagining plant science training in the era of generative artificial intelligence: a global perspective (Gaurav D Moghe , Alen Zimić-Sheen , Dijun Chen , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
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Reimagining plant science training in the era of generative artificial intelligence: a global perspective
Abstract. In recent years, a deluge of big and diverse datasets from hundreds of plant species, coupled with spectacular innovations in artificial intellig
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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The 36th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR2026) brought the global Arabidopsis community together in June. 🧪 Here are the moments that have stayed with us ⤵️ phoenixbioinfo.org/reflecting-o... #PlantScience #PlantBiology #Arabidopsis
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The conference facility for #PlantBio2026 is near to the National Gallery of Canada, with "Maman" by Louise Bourgeois providing a spidery welcome. If you look closely you can see her 32 marble egg cases attached to her abdomen.
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Visit the AgBioData booth at #PlantBio2026 for updates on your fave DB. Asher and Marcela represent the BAR and the AgBioData Consortium here, respectively.
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Tamar Av-Shalom, a PhD student in @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social, tells us about stomatal closure, triggered by a P. syringae effector, in the #PlantBio2026 Biotic Stress concurrent session.
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Dolf Weijers from Wageningen tells us about 1000s of sites that are phosphorylated after exposure to auxin...a Shiny app "AuxPhos" is available for exploration of the data. #PlantBio2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Lucia Strader from the Salk tells us about how the "messy spaghetti" 🍝 of intrinsically disordered regions does the heavy lifting in transcriptional activation, during this morning's plenary session on auxin, identified using 70k fragments from Arabidopsis TFs...wow 😲. New tool can predict ADs.
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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
#plantbio2026 Asher Pasha from @bar-plantbio.bsky.social with the latest from BAR including GAIA and new eFP browsers (barley, Arabidopsis guard cells)
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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
#plantbio2026 What a great group of collaborators - Marcela Tello-Ruiz, Asher Pasha, Doreen Ware, Pankaj Jaiswal, Tanya Berardini, Olivia Haley, Sunita Kumari - and this is just a tiny slice of the consortium @agbiodata.bsky.social @bar-plantbio.bsky.social @tairnews.bsky.social
All speakers from the session in a group photo
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Good turnout for the AI in Plant Biology workshop, with co-chair Carol Huang from NYU! The crowd might thin out when the World Cup final starts towards the end ⚽😁
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Asher Pasha from the BAR, Tanya Berardini from @tairnews.bsky.social and other speakers tell us about the lastest and greatest bioinformatic tools in the AgBioData workshop #PlantBio2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Shelley Lumba from @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social tells us about the role of strigolactones, both in plant development, and in attracting beneficial and less happily parasitic plants like Striga. #PlantBio2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Plant Biology 2026 🌿, jointly hosted by ASPB and CSPB, kicks off in Ottawa with beautiful weather (smoke from recent wildfires has cleared, allowing for a good view of Canada's Parliament Buildings from the Rogers' Centre where the conference is being held).
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Drought and salinity stress remodel Asian rice (Oryza sativa) leaf development through cell-type specific regulatory programs Robertson et al. @oli-wilkins.bsky.social @c-spirit.org @bar-plantbio.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Osmotic stressors induce variable responses in developing rice leaves.
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Sue Rhee from MSU, who leads the Centre for Sustainable Plant Innovation and Reslience through International Teamwork (c-spirit.org), kicks off our yearly in-person meeting in Yokohama!
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Closing keynote 1: Niko Geldner, Uni. Lausanne, on root barrier formation. #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The last speaker of the session is Ari Sadanandom of Durham Uni. in the UK, on the role of SUMO in plant responses. #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The 2nd speaker is Ildoo Hwang from Pohang Uni. in South Korea, who is talking about the intriguing idea of the vasculature as a signaling hub. #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Meng-xian Sun from Wuhan kicks off the last plenary session on signal transduction with a talk on the role of parental genes in plant reproduction. #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The last speaker is Xander Jones from TSL will tell us about the biosensors his lab develops to dissect plant environmental responses. #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Tatsuya Nobori from TSL is introduced as a rising star in the area of single cell dissection of plant immunity. #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Jijie Chai from Westlake University in China kicks off the Tools and Techniques plenary session attempting to provide a unified model of NLR signaling in plants. #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The last speaker in the translation session is Dominique Van Der Straeten from the University of Ghent on changes in nutritional quality in response to abiotic stresses, using machine learning. #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Up next, Blake Meyers from UC Davis on the role of small RNAs in plant reproduction, with a punny subtitle 🙂. #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Jian-Min Zhou from CAS in Beijing kicks off the 4th plenary session on translating knowledge from Arabidopsis into crops. He's focusing on plant immunity. #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
After the #icar2026 conference dinner at Gardens by the Bay, I checked out the Double Helix Bridge connecting the two sides of the bay (I had seen it from afar on a boat tour Monday). It has lights embedded in it with the 4 nucleotides, as base pairs: A-T and G-C!
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Beautiful location and delicious food for the #icar2026 conference dinner at Gardens by the Bay.
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Last speaker in the biotech session is Tao-Ho Chang from NCHU in Taiwan, telling us about new imaging approaches for studying beneficial microbe interactions 🦠🔬 #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Feng Zhang from U. Minnesota tells us about gene editing in plants. #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Seonyeong Kwak from SNU in South Korea tells us about nanosensors for real time plant health monitoring. #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Qiangshan Wei from NCSU is speaking in the Plant Biotech session on "wearable sensors" for plant health that can be read with a smartphone! #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Sureshkumar Balasubramanian from Monash University finishes the abiotic session exploring temperature sensing. #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Up next, Prof. Dame Caroline Dean from JIC tells us about temperature sensing in plants and gives a shout out to Arabidopsis! #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Day 3 of #icar2026 kicks off a plenary session on abiotic stress with a talk by Shuhua Yang from CAU.
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The wild chickens of NUS - especially the roosters 🐓- mean you don't need an alarm clock at #icar2026 (the jet lag also helps)
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Qiyu Liang from NTU is using AI to understand phase separation of Arabidopsis proteins...what features are important? Molphase tool looks handy! #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Ehsan Estaji from Umea tells us about one DB to rule them all, or at least one that can be used to answer biological questions with AI! #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Up next, Zoran Nikoloski from the MPI-MoPP in Germany uses neural networks to understand limitations in C4 photosynthesis. #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Marek Mutwil from U. Copenhagen chairs (and is the first presenter in) the AI in Plant Science concurrent session. He's telling us about his lab's PlantConnectome knowledge graph. #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Christine Faulkner from John Innes Centre tells us about the role of plasmodesmata closure in plant immunity. #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
University of Toronto alumna Wenbo Ma, now at TSL, kicks off the 2nd plenary session on biotic interactions with a story about small RNAs in trans-species defence. #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The last speaker in the single cell session is Arthur Korte, University of Wuerzburg on single cell regulatory networks across 853 Arabidopsis accessions! #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
James Walker from the Salk is talking about single cell epigenomes during leaf development. #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Jack Xu from UC Davis uses spatial omics to zoom into inflorescence development. #icar2026
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Up next: Xun Xu from BGI on spatial multi-omics! #icar2026
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