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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, chat with Shelley Lumba at U. Toronto, she's doing this kind of stuff, Dan!

Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 12d

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...

tinyurl.com

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North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social · 16d

RSVP 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

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 21d

Call 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...

Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)

career5.successfactors.eu

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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · Aug 11

Excited to be at the Gordon Research Conference on Single Cell Approaches for Plant Biology in lovely Portland, Maine!

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C-SPIRIT @c-spirit.org · Jul 30

🚨 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

Methods
Skills
New open position:
Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Systems Biology
within the Wilkins Lab at the University of Manitoba
Focus
Understanding how plants regulate specialized metabolite production
Investigating plant systems biology at the cellular level
Advancing sustainable agriculture through global collaboration
Single-cell RNA sequencing to map gene expression
Spatial transcriptomics to capture tissue-specific patterns
Integration of multi-omic and imaging data for regulatory modeling
Analyzing high-dimensional functional genomics data
Applying computational biology tools and pipelines
Mentoring students and contributing to collaborative research teams

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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · Jul 17

The Pergamon Museum is closed for renos, so that'll save you a day (you'll miss seeing the beautiful full-size reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate from Babylon though)!

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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · Jul 17

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-...

2025 Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology Conference GRC

The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology will be held in Portland, Maine. Apply today to reserve your spot.

www.grc.org

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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · Jul 17

Also the new synagogue on Oranienburgerstr. and the area around Hackeschermarkt S-Bahnhof. Also interesting is a walk from Brandenburg Gate to Potsdamerplatz and to think that it all used to be a wall between east and west. A Spree boat tour might be a good way to take some of the history in.

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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · Jul 17

Indeed!

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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thanks, @asherpasha.bsky.social for updating Thalemine!

Asher 🇨🇦🌿☮️🎗️Ⓥ @asherpasha.bsky.social · Jul 9

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

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Jul 3

Critical 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.

Exclusive: Famed protein structure competition nears end as NIH grant money runs out

Agency silent on funding renewal for contest that inspired creation of AIs that predicted how proteins would fold

www.science.org

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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · Jul 3

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! 🌱💻

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C-SPIRIT @c-spirit.org · Jun 27

The 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

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Plant Cell Atlas @plantcellatlas.bsky.social · Jun 26

Meet 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

Promotional image for the "Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology GRC Conference" focusing on meeting the speakers. This promo includes an image of Dr. Rachel Shahan from UCLA with a short bio on Dr. Shahan.

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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thanks, Cris. It was great to catch up!

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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · Jun 25

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 🌎!

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BF Francis Ouellette @bffo.bsky.social · Jun 23

My 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 🧬 🖥️ 🧪
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hbctraining.github.io/external/HBC...

This hands-on workshop spans 5 consecutive days with 4.5 hours of synchronous teaching time and 2 hours of homework per day. The workshop is designed for beginners without any programming experience. All sessions will be held online over Zoom.

hbctraining.github.io

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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · Jun 21

Thanks, Geraint, and to your amazing local hosts and organizing committee for an excellent #icar2025!

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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · Jun 21

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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · Jun 20

bar.utoronto.ca/~nprovart/SU... this is an unofficial URL

SUMO Map eFP Browser

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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · Jun 20

Last day of #icar2025. It was great to catch up with @tairnews.bsky.social and @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social!

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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · Jun 20

Sorry, the link seems to be down...please stand by 📺

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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · Jun 20

😂 Good guess, Peter! It's actually the tomb of Hugo II, Castellan of Ghent and Lord of Heusden.

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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · Jun 19

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.

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