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UPSC Monday Seminar 2023
03-Apr-2023 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Barbora Pařízková
Title: Effect of organic nitrogen on lateral root development
Supervisor: Karin Ljung
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-9:30
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
UPSC Monday Seminar 2023
17-Apr-2023 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Leonor Ramirez
Title: Why are conifers green in the dark?
Supervisor: Åsa Strand
9:30 Manoj Kumar Mandal
Title: Unveiling the role of Type II Metacaspases in poplar
Supervisor: Hannele Tuominen
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
UPSCtech Seminar
19-Apr-2023 14:00 - 15:00
The speaker will be Loïc Talide who will give two talks:
Talk 1: Using Organic Electronic Ion Pumps for controlled delivery of molecules of interest.
Talk 2: Introduction to the new Smart Plate Imaging Robot.
The UPSCtech seminar series is an internal series organised by PhD students and Postdocs at UPSC to exchange knowledge about different methods and techniques used in plant science.
Seminar series "Outside of Academia": #2 Industry in Umeå - Nordic Biomarker
20-Apr-2023 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar series
"Outside of Academia": #2 Industry in Umeå - Nordic Biomarker
Do you want to know which career paths are waiting for you outside academia?
Then listen to Louise Lindbäck from Nordic Biomarker about becoming a R&D engineer after an academic career
Please register at the latest on 19.04.2023 following this link
Contact:
For questions, please contact the organisers Laura Tünnermann (
UPSC Monday Seminar 2023
24-Apr-2023 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Sonali Ranade
Title: Norway spruce forests in Sweden: moving from local adaptations to landscape breeding
Supervisor: Rosario García-Gil
9:30 Rajiv Chaudhary
Title: Identification of molecular markers associated with fungal resistance in Norway spruce and common ash
Supervisor: Harry Wu
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
UPSC Monday Seminar 2023
08-May-2023 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Thomas Dobrenel
Title: Update on Norway spruce transformation
Supervisor: Ulrika Egertsdotter
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-9:30
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
UPSC Monday Seminar 2023
15-May-2023 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Bo Zhang
Title: Phytochrome B and Phytochrome-Interacting Factor 4 control trees low-temperature growth
Supervisor: Ove Nilsson
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-9:30
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
UPSC Seminar: Andrew D Friend
16-May-2023 10:00 - 11:00
Andrew D. Friend
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Title: Tree growth, the global carbon cycle, and climate
Host: Totte Niittylä
More information: https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/friend/
Abstract of his talk:
The global natural land surface has been a substantial net sink of anthropogenic CO2 over recent decades (e.g. equivalent to 29% of fossil fuel plus land-use emissions over 2012-2021), reducing the rate of climate change. It is believed that forested ecosystems are a major contributor to this sink. However, we have a poor understanding of the causes of this imbalance, and hence have low confidence in our ability to predict future atmospheric CO2. The carbon balance of the land surface is typically viewed as being controlled by photosynthesis and heterotrophic respiration. However, plant growth (and hence carbon storage) is under direct control by biological factors and the environment independently of photosynthesis, suggesting current paradigms are at best incomplete. It is notable that global vegetation models disagree strongly on the relative attribution of the net land sink to different processes (especially to CO2 fertilization), and it is possible that this problem is at least partly due to their over-emphasis on photosynthesis parameterisations. Our research aims to improve understanding of controls on plant growth and how to incorporate this understanding into global models, shifting them away from the photosynthesis paradigm. We have developed a detailed model of xylogenesis that has provided insights into how wood formation is controlled, and are exploring formulations for coupling growth and photosynthesis at the whole-plant level in a new conceptual framework. Our model development is being supported by experimental and observational investigations into the physiological controls on wood formation at tissue and whole-plant levels in the hybrid poplar clone T89. Initial results from our new approach to modelling global vegetation carbon fluxes will be presented and remaining gaps in our understanding outlined.
UPSCtech: ChatGPT and Bing
17-May-2023 14:00 - 15:00
UPSC Technical Seminar
ChatGPT and Bing: AI companions and applications for the scientific landscape
Michael Stewart
All are welcome!
Contact: Özer Erguvan and Laura García Garmañach (UPSC)
UPSC Monday Seminar 2023
22-May-2023 9:00 - 10:00
9:30 Amir Mahboubi
Title: Investigating translational regulation in plants
Supervisor: Johannes Hanson
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:30-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
PhD Thesis Defence: Isabella Hallberg-Sramek
24-May-2023 9:00 - 12:00
Isabella Hallberg-Sramek
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU
Title: Tailoring forest management to local socio-ecological contexts - Addressing climate change and local stakeholders’ expectations of forests
Faculty opponent: Professor Georg Winkel, Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Supervisor: Annika Nordin
Assistant supervisors:
Camilla Sandström, Department of Political Science, Umeå University
Erland Mårald, Department of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Umeå University
Eva-Maria Nordström, Department of Forest Resource Management, SLU Umeå
Location: The public defence will take place in P-O Bäckströms sal at SLU in Umeå and will be also broadcasted via Zoom.
The thesis will be available via the following link from May 3: https://doi.org/10.54612/a.6os9e6ei21
A brief description of the thesis:
Forests are expected to provide multiple ecosystem services and contribute to climate change mitigation, while also being adapted to the impacts of climate change. This thesis highlights the various competing expectations placed on forests in Sweden and how they can be addressed by tailoring forest management to local socio-ecological contexts in collaboration with local forest stakeholders, thereby reducing the gap between forest science and practice.
Keywords: sustainable forest management, climate-smart forestry, ecosystem services, media analysis, machine learning, co-production processes, local knowledge, forest policy, forest stakeholders, scenario modelling.
UPSC Monday Seminar 2023
29-May-2023 9:00 - 10:00
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 Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists
01-Jun-2023
Day 1 (Thursday 1st of June)
Morning session - Open for all
Venue: Hörsal NAT.D.320
Please find map to venue here
9:00 Welcome
Symposium Part I
9:05 Grid formation and tissue emergence in the embryos of Saccharina latissima
Ioannis Theodorou Sorbonne University, France / NMBU, Norway
9:35 Low substitution xyloglucan disrupts trafficking to the cell wall
Natalie Hoffmann University of Toronto, Canada
10:05 A gynoecium is born: what growth patterns underlie its development
Andrea Gomez Felipe Université de Montréal, Canada
10:40 Fika (coffee break)
Symposium Part II
10:55 A molecular mechanism for root thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings
Haiyue Ai Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
11:25 Calcium signaling mediates mitochondrial intra-cellular communication during oxidative stress: Role of CIPK9-VDAC3-CIPK3 module in regulating oxidative stress responses in Arabidopsis
Barkha Ravi University of Delhi, India
11:55 Multifaceted role of WRKYs and its cross talk under abiotic stress in Pearl Millet
Jeky Chanwala Institute of Life Sciences Bhubaneswar, India
12:25 Closing
Afternoon session - Per invitation only
Lunch
14:00-14:30 Sowing the postdoc seeds: a personal journey beyond the PhD - Laura Bacete
14:30-16:00 Project "speed-dating" with PIs (with fika)
19:00 Dinner
Contact: Stéphane Verger, Laura Bacete, Petra Marhava
UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists
02-Jun-2023
Day session - Per invitation only:
9:00-9:25 Presentation of UPSC and Umeå Postdoc Society
9:25-9:45 Visit of UPSC
Fika (coffee break)
10:00-12:00 Meetings with PIs I
Lunch
13:30-15:00 Workshop by UmU´s Research Support and Collaborations Office
15:00 Meetings with PIs II
Open for all UPSC and invited guests:
17:00 Evening activity at UPSC with dinner
Contact: Stéphane Verger, Laura Bacete, Petra Marhava
Please find more information about the symposium here
UPSC Monday Seminar 2023
07-Jun-2023 9:00 - 10:00
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
07-Jun-2023 14:00 - 15:00
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)
08-Jun-2023 9:00 - 10:00
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: Marcus Larsson
09-Jun-2023 13:00 - 14:00
13:00 Marcus Larsson
Title: How tree species choice and nitrogen fertilization can increase the climate benefit of managed forests
Supervisor: Annika Nordin