Events under 'Seminar'

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:30 Félix Barbut

Title: Secondary cell wall integrity sensing in Aspen and Arabidopsis

Supervisor: Ewa Mellerowicz


Place: Zoom
Time: 9:30-10:00

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Sara Westman

Title: Identifying genes regulating salicinoid biosynthesis in Populus tremula

Supervisor: Nathaniel Street

9:30 Maria Kidwai

Title: Role of the Arabidopsis Cop9 signalosome subunit 5 (CSN5) in adventitious root development

Supervisor: Catherine Bellini


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01 & Zoom
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Shiv Kumar Meena

Title: Understanding the role(s) of poly A- signal associated cold responsive antisense long noncoding RNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana

Supervisor: Peter Kindgren


9:30 Sara Häggström

Title: TOR mediates translational regulation in Arabidopsis

Supervisor: Johannes Hanson


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01 & Zoom
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Sam Van Es

Title: Expanding the toolbox for research into targets and partners of transcription factors

Supervisor: Markus Schmid

9:30 Xuemin Ma

Title: Differential hormonal regulation in response to localized wound stress

Supervisor: Peter Marhavý


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01 & Zoom
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Nordström

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Shashank Pandey

Title: Unravelling the molecular basis of low temperature as a seasonal cue for growth cessation

Supervisor: Rishi Bhalerao

9:30 Aswin Nair

Title: Control of bud break - a role for CIB transcription factors

Supervisor: Rishi Bhalerao


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01 & Zoom
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Nordström

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Sara Raggi

Title: Lhook! Deep Learning-based method for High-throughput apical hook phenotyping

Supervisor: Stéphanie Robert

9:30 Alexander Vergara

Title: The role of alternative splicing during photomorphogenesis

Supervisor: Åsa Strand


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01 & Zoom
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:30 Nelson Rojas-Murcia

Title: Dissecting the gene activation of spliceosomal Sm required to cope with low temperature in Arabidopsis

Supervisor: Markus Schmid


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01 & Zoom
Time: 9:30-10:00

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Colin Averill
Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Title: Forests and their Fungi: Molecular interactions at macro scale

Host: Nathaniel Street


More information about Colin Averill's research:
https://www.colinaverill.com/

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

PhD half-time seminar

9:30 Alice Marcon

Title: Regulation of flowering time and phenology in trees

Supervisor: Ove Nilsson


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01 & Zoom
Time: 9:30-10:00

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Jan Šimura

Title: LC-MS plant hormone analysis at the Swedish Metabolomics Centre (SMC)

Supervisor: Karin Ljung

9:30 Zhiqiang Chen

Title: Genomic selection and genetic architecture behind developmental and seasonal controlof tree growth and wood properties in Norway spruce

Supervisor: Harry Wu


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Tuuli Aro

Title: What´s behind the Norway spruce cold tolerance?

Supervisor: Vaughan Hurry

9:30 Yuan Ma

Title: Endoreduplication mediates cell size control via mechanochemical signaling from cell wall

Supervisor: Rishikesh Bhalerao


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Isabella Hallberg Sramek

Title: Uwrapping the language of science

Supervisor: Annika Nordin

9:30 Asal Atakhani

Title: Mechanics of cell-cell adhesion in plants

Supervisor: Stéphane Verger


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Hakim Mireau
Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin (IJPB), Versailles, France

Title: The OGU-INRA cytoplasmic male sterility system in rapeseed : from genes to molecular modes of action

Host: Olivier Keech


Summary:
Rapeseed is a plant of high agronomic value throughout the world. Its breeding over the last 50 years has involved various steps of genetic improvement and the ability to efficiently produce heterotic F1 hybrids has been essential in the process. A decisive progress has involved the transfer of the genetic determinants of a nucleo-cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) from radish into rapeseed. This involved the transfer of a CMS gene named orf138 and that of an antidote genetic factor called the fertility restorer (or Rfo), resulting in an efficient system named OGU-INRA to produce male-restored (fertile) hybrid rapeseed lines. In this talk, I will relate the history of this work as well as our recent molecular data which revealed that Rfo acts as a highly specific translational inhibitor of the orf138 mitochondrial mRNA.

UPSC Seminar

Mateusz Majda
Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Title: The mechanical control of plant growth

Host: Sara Raggi

 

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:30 Marcus Larsson

Title: Soil carbon response to forest management in old boreal forests

Supervisor: Annika Nordin


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:30-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 tba

Title: tba 

9:30 Shruti Choudhary

Title: Dissecting transcriptional signatures of single cells in poplar - challenges and progress

Supervisor: Hannele Tuominen


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Reyes Maria Benlloch

Title: An integrative approach to reveal functional small peptides in the control of legume development

Visiting guest in Johannes Hanson´s group

9:30 Silvio Collani

Title: Do FD and LFY really play together in Arabidopsis?

Supervisor: Markus Schmid


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Marie Barberon
Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva,
Switzerland

Title: Plasticity of root permeability for nutrient acquisition

Host: Stéphanie Robert

 

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Mikko Luomaranta

Title: Underlying genetics of wood related traits in Swedish Aspen (SwAsp) trees

Supervisor: Hannele Tuominen

9:30 Aurélie Crepin

Title: Structural and spectroscopic analysis of qH-dissipative antennae in Arabidopsis

Supervisor: Alizée Malnoë


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

13:00*: Justine Colou

Title: Effects of fertilizers on soybeans and their interactions with Rhizobacteria

Supervisor: Torgny Näsholm

13:30*: Isura Nagahage

Title: Mechanism of MCII-f (AtMC9) during leaf senescence of plants

Supervisor: Hannele Tuominen


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 13:00-14:00*

*The time was adjusted because of the defence in the morning.

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

9:00 Kaisa Nieminen
Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, University of Helsinki

Title: Novel prospects for birch genetics and breeding

Host: Totte Niittylä

Please note: The space in the lecture room is limited. First come, first served!

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Varvara Dikaya - Half-time Seminar

Title: Identifying the role of PCP in acclimation to cold temperatures

Supervisor: Nathaniel Street

9:30 Elena Van Zale - Half-time Seminar

Title: Predicting the importance of genetic components during abiotic stress

Supervisor: Markus Schmid


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Francisco Gil Muñoz

Title: Scots pine around Norrland: from sampling to neural network aided image analysis

Supervisor: María Rosario García Gil

9:30 Maria Paola Puggioni

Title: Uncovering novel molecular mechanisms of sustained quenching under persistent excess of light

Supervisor: Alizée Malnoë


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 János Urbancsok

Title: To sway or not to sway: secondary cell wall integrity (SCWI) and the role of mechanical cues in wood formation in hybrid aspen

Supervisor: Ewa Mellerowicz

9:30 Ondřej Hodek

Title: Development of LC-MS methods for polar metabolites at the Swedish Metabolomics Centre

Supervisor: Thomas Moritz

Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Laura Tuennermann

Title: Functional characterization of the amino acid transporter AtLHT: posttranslational modifications & interactions

Supervisor: Torgny Näsholm

9:30 Luciano Martìn Di Fino

Title: Mechanical constraints regulate cell expansion and division in plants roots

Supervisor: Peter Marhavý


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Nabila El Arbi - Half-time Seminar

Title: Surviving the cold (in Umeå) - A plant´s perspective

Supervisor: Markus Schmid


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-9:30

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:30 Lill Eilertsen

Title: Effect on soil fungal biodiversity at different gap diameters in circular gap-harvesting

Supervisor: Judith Lundberg-Felten


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:30-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Christmas lecture on the topic "Winter"

13.30: Non-coding transcription, epigenetics and RNA methylation in cold acclimation
Peter Kindgren, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU

14.00: How to survive the winter? It is a matter of timing!
Maria Eriksson, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University

14.30: How can conifer needles remain green during the boreal winter?
Stefan Jansson, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University

15.00: Christmas fika with "Lussekatter", "pepparkakor" and "glögg" in the UPSC lunchroom

UPSC Seminar

Bertold Mariën 
IceLab Postdoc in Statistical Learning for Chronosilviculture, a collaboration project between the groups of Jun Yu & Maria E. Eriksson

Title: Autumn phenology and the timing of leaf senescence

Host: Maria E. Eriksson & Jun Yu

Abstract:
The coloring of leaves in many tree species is a prominent phenomenon. The timing of this process, however, is not yet completely understood. The timing of leaf senescence in beech, oak, birch and poplar trees was investigated during four exceptional dry and warm years. Two aspects were adressed: (I) determining the timing of the leaf senescence and (II) determining the fine-root phenology throughout the year to investigate a possible coupling between the phenology of the leaves and fine-roots. Substantial attention has been given to detecting phenological transition dates in longitudinal data of the chlorophyll content index and fine-roots. Especially the use of generalized additive models (GAMs) and generalized additive models for location, scale and shape (GAMLSS) has been explored in relation to the detection of phenological transition date.

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Elsa Demes

Title: The role of cell wall in cell adhesion and quantification of microtubule dynamics

Supervisor: Stéphane Verger

Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-9:30

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel