Events under 'Seminar'

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Wei Wang

Title: OPENER and interactors: into the unknown of essential plant cell biology

Supervisor: Totte Niittylä


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

Half-time Seminar

9:00 Özer Erguvan 
Title: Ultrastructural characterization and new molecular players of cell adhesion in plants

External evaluator: Charlotte Kirchelle, Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes INRAe / ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France

Supervisor: Stéphane Verger

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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Charlotte Kirchhelle
Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes INRAe / ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France

Title: Shaping multi-layered organs through edge-based growth control

Read more about her research here

Host: Stéphane Verger

UPSC Seminar

Emilie Jacob (Cavel)
CRRBM (molecular biology platform - plant phenotyping facilities),
University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France

Title: Analysis of drought stress in Arabidopsis mutants and waterlogging tolerance in barley by high-throughput phenotyping

Host: Ewa Mellerowicz

PhD Half-time Seminar

13:00 Marcus Larsson

Title: How tree species choice and nitrogen fertilization can increase the climate benefit of managed forests

Supervisor: Annika Nordin

Master thesis presentation 2023

13:00 Anne Braunroth

Title: Plant-growth-promoting-properties of endophytic bacteria isolated from Scots pine needles

Supervisor: Annika Nordin
Co-supervisor: Tinkara Bizjak

Place: Stora Fokusrummet KB.E2.01
Link to map

Time: 13:00-14:00

Contact: Annika Nordin

Welcome to the first UPSC Midsummer lecture!

Two of UPSCs most recent group leaders are presenting an overivew about their groups research. After the lecture, UPSC invites everyone working at UPSC to a joint barbecue starting at around 16:00.

14:00-14:45: MicroProteins - from identification to finding novel solutions for plant breeding
Stephan Wenkel

14:45-15:30: High-fidelity genomics to high-efficiency investigation: accurate prediction of allele-specific gene expression in poplar
Jian-Feng Mao

16:00 Midsummer Barbecue

We cordially invite everyone working at UPSC to the first UPSC Midsummer Barbecue. The registration to the barbecue is closed now. If you have questions regarding your registration, please contact Anna Gustavsson This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Hosts: Johannes Hanson, Totte Niittylä

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Luis Cervela-Cardona

Title: CDK8/CDKE1 modulates stress response through CAMTA3 regulation

Supervisor: Åsa Strand

9:30 Shah Hussain

Title: When to die: Arginin and Ornithine fluxes regulate the progression of leaf senescence

Supervisor: Olivier Keech


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Sebastian Marquardt
Section for Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Title: Languages of the Non-coding Genome

Host: Stephan Wenkel


Abstract:
Genomes are the blueprints of life: the genomic DNA sequences contain the instructions for the formation of a given species. DNA sequence polymorphisms between individuals of the same species offer a hypothesis to understand the molecular bases of fitness differences. However, many polymorphisms are located in parts of the genome that we poorly understand: the non-coding genome. While polymorphisms that change the protein sequence offer a sufficiently clear path forward, my seminar outlines approaches and solutions to understand the non-coding genome.
Results from my laboratory illustrate different molecular mechanisms of how the non-coding genome promotes organismal fitness. The results from my lab highlight different ways of how the non-coding genome communicates functional information, with intriguing implications for current models explaining non-coding genome conservation and function.

More information about Sebastian Marquardt's research

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2023

9:00 Felix Robert Barbut

Title: Plant xylan engineering and its implications for drought adaptation

Supervisor: Ewa Mellerowicz

9:30 Zhi-Qiang Chen

Title: How will Norway spruce respond to climate?

Supervisor: Harry Wu


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

Seminar series

"Outside of Academia": #3 Industry in Umeå - Arevo

Do you want to know which career paths are waiting for you outside academia?
The speaker of this seminar will be Regina Gratz from Arevo.

Contact:

For questions, please contact the organisers Laura Tünnermann (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Tinkara Bizjak (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2023

9:00 Haleh Hayatgheibi

Title: Effect of population structure on the quantatative genetic trade-off between growth and wood properties in Norway spruce and its implications for tree improvement programs

Supervisor: Rosario García Gil

9:30 Maxime Chantreau

Title: Screening of nitrogen use efficiency in the SwAsp population

Supervisor: Hannele Tuominen


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

Master thesis presentation 2023

9:00 Carina Lubrecht

Title: Metatranscriptomic analysis of short-term nitrogen fertilization of Scots pine

Supervisor: Nathaniel Street

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2023

9:00 Abu Imran Baba

Title: Role of RG-11 dimerization in cell adhesion of Arabidopsis and insights into the fiber cell intrusive growth in poplar

Supervisor: Stéphane Verger

9:30 Muhammad Shahzad Anjam

Title: Strengthening localized root immune responses: the mechanisms of lignin deposition

Supervisor: Peter Marhavý


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC PhD Half-time Seminar Day

Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU

10:00 Laura Tünnermann (SLU)
Title: Molecular mechanisms underpinning plant nitrogen uptake
External evaluator: Doris Rentsch, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Supervisor: Torgny Näsholm

11:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00 Léa Bogdziewiez (SLU)
Title: Single-cell mechanical charcterization of cell-cell adhesion in plants
External evaluator: Edouard Pesquet, Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm
Supervisor: Stéphane Verger

14:00 Sara Häggström (UmU)
Title: Target of Rapamycin (TOR) mediates translational regulation in Arabidopsis
External evaluator: Anders Hafrén, Department of Plant Biology Sciences, SLU, Uppsala
Supervisor: Johannes Hanson

15:00-15:15 Short break

15:15 Adam Klingberg (SLU)
Title: Integrating genomics in tree breeding
External evaluator: Xiao-Ru Wang, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University
Supervisor: Harry Wu

16:15 End of PhD Half-time Seminar Day

Contact:
Stefan Jansson, UmU
Hannele Tuominen, SLU

UPSC Seminar

Edouard Pesquet
Associate Professor at Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Title: Unravelling the functions behind differences in lignin chemistry between cell types for plant development and environmental resiliance

Host: Stéphane Verger

Abstract
The biopolymer lignin, deposited in the cell walls of vascular cells, is essential for plant long-distance water conduction, structural support and resistance to biotic and abiotic constraints. Independently of the plant species, the cell wall layers of each vascular cell type contain specific lignin chemistries differing in aromatic substitutions and aliphatic functions. Yet, both the spatial control and the biological function of this conserved and specific lignin chemistry for the cell wall layers of each vascular cell type remain unclear. This lack of clarity is due to our current methodologies for analyzing lignin mainly restricted to ground or ball-milled samples that averages out the spatial and developmental differences between each cell type. We thus optimized in situ quantitative chemical imaging methods to determine changes in lignin structure, concentration and/or composition at subcellular levels in whole plant biopsies using direct methods such as Raman spectroscopy, UV fluorescence and histochemistry [1-4]. We combined functional genetics, using a collection of mutants in Arabidopsis and poplar, with in situ quantitative chemical imaging to unravel the molecular mechanisms controlling the spatial accumulation of specific lignin chemistries in distinct cell types and its impact on each cellular function. We found that specific lignin chemistries accumulated dynamically and differently during the maturation of each cell type and morphotype, changing the concentration and composition of their lignin [5]. We found that lignin spatial accumulation in each cell type and cell wall layer depended on different paralog combination of phenol oxidizing enzymes exhibiting substrate specificities [6-7]. We lastly showed using multivariate analyses that modifying this specific lignin chemistry impaired the cell wall biomechanics of each cell type and morphotype, and consequently plant growth and its response to abiotic constraints [5-6]. Altogether, we show that lignin chemistry is differently controlled for each cell type and morphotype during their maturation to dynamically adjust their function in response to developmental and environmental constraints.

References
[1] Decou R, Serk H, Ménard D, Pesquet E. Methods Mol. Biol. 1544, 233-247, 2017.
[2] Blaschek L, Champagne A, Dimotakis C, Nuoendagula, Decou R, Hishiyama S, Kratzer S, Kajita S, Pesquet E. Front Plant Sci. 11, 109, 2020.
[3] Blaschek L, Nuoendagula, Bacsik Z, Kajita S, Pesquet E. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 8, 4900–4909, 2020.
[4] Yamamoto M, Blaschek L, Subbotina E, Kajita S, Pesquet E. ChemSusChem. 13, 4400-4408, 2020.
[5] Ménard D, Blaschek L, Kriechbaum K, Lee CC, Serk H, Lyubartsev A, Bacsik Z, Bergström L, Mathew A, Kajita S, Pesquet E. The Plant Cell 34, 4877-96, 2022.
[6] Blaschek L, Murozuka E, Ménard D, Pesquet E. The Plant Cell 35, 889-909, 2023.
[7] Blaschek L, Pesquet E. Front Plant Sci. 12,754601, 2021.

UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar

Arthur Gessler
Director of the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research (LWF), Group Leader Forest Growth and Climate, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Adjunct Professor ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Title: New approaches for monitoring forest functioning in a changing climate - crossing scales from molecular mechanisms to stand wide processes

Host: Totte Niittylä

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2023

No speakers this date

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2023

9:00 Annica Nordström

Title: Phytochromes beyond Arabidopsis & landscape breeding

Supervisor: Rosario García Gil

9:30 Maximiliano Estravis Barcala

Title: A new 50K SNP array for Scots pine and its transferability to other pine species

Supervisor: Harry Wu


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2023

9:30 Silvio Collani 

Title: SoPPIs: a powerful solution to a remarkable problem

Supervisor: Markus Schmid


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

Seminar series

"Outside of Academia": #4 Postdoc in plant science – and then? Two career options

Do you want to know which career paths are waiting for you outside of academia? Then listen to Rumen Ivanov from KWS and Tzvetina Brumbarova from Clinical Trial Center Cologne.

Rumen Ivanov is a regulatory affairs manager at KWS in Germany and Tzvetina Brumbarova is a project manager at the Clinical Trials Centre Cologne, Germany. Their background is in molecular plant biology. Before switching to the industry Rumen and Tzvetina finished their Ph.D. and continued their academic career as Postdocs, followed by senior researcher positions in Lyon (France), Saarbrücken (Germany), and Düsseldorf (Germany). Rumen and Tzvetina will share their career path from academia to industry and introduce us to the process of becoming regulatory affairs manager and project manager after a 20 year long scientific career in plant science. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in a networking lunch afterwards.

Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVvoNvySV14mMmz0xfncPd4j_cKIr6skOaJQIpqXL9rJNeVw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Contact:

For questions, please contact the organisers Laura Tünnermann (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Tinkara Bizjak (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2023

9:00 Siamsa Doyle

Title: Identification of molecular cell shape in poplar leaf epidermal cells

Supervisor: Stéphanie Robert


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2023

9:00 Edward Carlsson

Title: Estimating kinship coefficients for genomic selection of Norway spruce

Supervisor: Harry Wu

9:30 Nabila El Arbi

Title: Cold sensitivity and root meristem maintenance: insights into the role of alternatice splicing and transcriptional kinetics

Supervisor: Markus Schmid


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Karen Kloth

Assistant Professor at the Laboratory of Entomology (ENT), Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Title: Aphids, the phloem and the belowground microbiome

Host: Benedicte Albrectsen

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2023

9:00 Alicia López

Title: Knowns and unknowns about the mitochondrial iron-sulfur cluster assembly machinery in plants

Supervisor: Olivier Keech

9:30 Laura García Romañach

Title: Flowering time in trees: the role of the miR156-SPL pathway

Supervisor: Ove Nilsson


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Marek Mutwil

School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Title: Unraveling the rules of gene expression regulation in complex environments

Host: Stephan Wenkel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2023

9:30 Amanda Mikko

Title: Deep sequencing air to monitor plant pathogens

Supervisor: Benedicte Riber Albrectsen


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

Seminar series

"Outside of Academia": #5 Being a Science Illustrator

Do you want to know which career paths are waiting for you outside of academia? Then listen to Daria Chrobok from DC SciArt.

Daria Chrobok is a scientific illustrator and founder of DC SciArt in Umeå. Her background is in plant physiology, and she finished her Ph.D. at the Umeå Plant Science Center before starting her own science illustration company in 2019. Daria will share her experience from academia to becoming a scientific illustrator and company founder. She will introduce us to her daily tasks as a scientific illustrator with an emphasis on plant science research. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in a networking lunch afterward.

Registration link: https://forms.gle/VfeoCMeR65c5kVgi7

Contact:

For questions, please contact the organisers Laura Tünnermann (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Tinkara Bizjak (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

UPSC PhD Student Halftime Seminar

Teitur Ahlgren, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University
Title: Exploring chromatin structure in Norway spruce
External evaluator: Per Stenberg, Associate lecturer at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University
Supervisor: Nathaniel Street

UPSC Monday Seminar Series 2023

9:30 Adrien Heymans

Title: In silico analysis of the influence of root hydraulic anatomy on water uptake

Supervisor: Stéphanie Robert


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel