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Olivia Wilkins
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Research
Latest papers
Drought and salinity stress remodel Asian rice (Oryza sativa) leaf development through cell-type-specific regulatory programs.
The New phytologist · 2026 · senior author
Reimagining plant science training in the era of generative artificial intelligence: a global perspective.
The Plant cell · 2026
Early sex-related transcriptional differences in CD8+ T cells responding to chronic viral infection reveal a sex bias in exhaustion.
Frontiers in immunology · 2026
Latest funding
- $421,000
Global Center: International Research Center for Enhancing Plant Resilience
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $104,000
Global Center: International Research Center for Enhancing Plant Resilience
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $54,000
Multi-modal prediction of gene regulation in plant stress response
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
14 publications.
Drought and salinity stress remodel Asian rice (Oryza sativa) leaf development through cell-type-specific regulatory programs.
Robertson SM, Maqsood O, Dang C, Pasha A, Stasolla C, Provart NJ, Wilkins O
Reimagining plant science training in the era of generative artificial intelligence: a global perspective.
Moghe GD, Zimić-Sheen A, Chen D, Yadav G, Cao G, Tufan H, Williams J, Szymański J, Kim J, Busta L, Mutwil M, Verdú M, Zimić M, Provart NJ, Makunga N, Wilkins O, Sun Q, VanBuren R, Marks RA, Rhee SY, Jiang Y, Xie Y
Early sex-related transcriptional differences in CD8+ T cells responding to chronic viral infection reveal a sex bias in exhaustion.
Kahia N, Robertson SM, Rodriguez M, Layug PJ, Vats H, Kannan K, Spicer V, Ozturk-Aptekmann A, Wilkins O, Arsenio J
Dual RNA sequencing reveals the transcriptomic and cellular response of Cannabis sativa to infection by the fungal pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.
Cale NL, Swiderek RE, Walker PL, Ziegler DJ, Castillo B, Robertson SM, Wilkins O, Belmonte MF
Discrete and cell-specific hypoxic responses in Arabidopsis roots resolved by single-nuclei transcriptomics.
Hill RD, Robertson SM, Igamberdiev AU, Mira MM, Wilkins O, Stasolla C
Growth-limiting drought increases sensitivity of Asian rice (Oryza sativa) leaves to heat shock through physiological and spatially distinct transcriptomic responses.
Robertson SM, Sakariyahu SK, Gan E, Maqsood O, Pasha A, Provart NJ, Wilkins O
Global mRNA profiling reveals the effect of boron as a crop protection tool against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.
Cale NL, Walker PL, Sankar S, Robertson SM, Wilkins O, Belmonte MF
Spatially resolved gene regulatory networks in Asian rice (Oryza sativa cv. Nipponbare) leaves.
Robertson SM, Wilkins O
Plant stem cells under low oxygen: metabolic rewiring by phytoglobin underlies stem cell functionality.
Mira MM, Hill RD, Hilo A, Langer M, Robertson S, Igamberdiev AU, Wilkins O, Rolletschek H, Stasolla C
Growth-limiting drought stress induces time-of-day-dependent transcriptome and physiological responses in hybrid poplar.
Robertson SM, Sakariyahu SK, Bolaji A, Belmonte MF, Wilkins O
Global Center: International Research Center for Enhancing Plant Resilience
Principal investigators: Wilkins, Olivia O
Keywords: bioinformatics; chemical ontologies; chemical synthesis; computational biology; consumer behaviour; metabolomics; natural products; risk perception; spatial transcriptomics
Global Center: International Research Center for Enhancing Plant Resilience
Principal investigators: Wilkins, Olivia
Keywords: metabolomics; spatial transcriptomics; bioinformatics; chemical synthesis; risk perception; natural products; consumer behaviour; chemical ontologies; computational biology
Multi-modal prediction of gene regulation in plant stress response
Principal investigators: Wilkins, Olivia
Keywords: gene regulation; plant biology; drought; stress; computational biology; single cell biology; gene regulatory networks; chromatin
Améliorer la résilience des plantes aux températures élevées via une approche intégrée de modulation des réseaux de régulation génétique
Principal investigators: Cappadocia, Laurent L
Keywords: bioinformatique; biologie des systèmes/intégrative; biotechnologie végétale; changements climatiques; études structure-fonction; génomique et régulation génétique; ingénierie des protéines; modifications post-traductionnelles; sumo e3 ligases; sumoylation
Global gene regulatory networks and abiotic stress
Principal investigators: Wilkins, Olivia
Keywords: Abiotic stress; Chromatin accessibility; Gene regulatory networks; Genome editing; Guard cells; Natural variation; Network inference; Oryza sativa (rice); RNA-seq; Single cell assays
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Olivia Wilkins and Claudio Stasolla: 3 shared papers
- Janilyn Arsenio and Olivia Wilkins: 1 shared paper
- Natural Sciences and Engineering
- Plant Science
- Internal Medicine
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