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UPSC Monday Seminar 2023
12-Jun-2023 9:00 - 10:00
Please note that there is no UPSC Monday Seminar June 12.
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
Master thesis presentation - Anne Braunroth
15-Jun-2023 13:00 - 14:00
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
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Time: 13:00-14:00
Contact: Annika Nordin
UPSC Midsummer Lecture and barbecue
16-Jun-2023 14:00 - 18:00
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
Hosts: Johannes Hanson, Totte Niittylä
UPSC Monday Seminar 2023
19-Jun-2023 9:00 - 10:00
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
17-Aug-2023 10:00 - 11:00
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 Seminar 2023
04-Sep-2023 9:00 - 10:00
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
07-Sep-2023 10:30 - 12:00
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 (
SciLifeLab Day Umeå
11-Sep-2023 8:00 - 17:00
Welcome to the second kick-off event for the national SciLifeLab site – now hosted by Umeå!
SciLifeLab has launched four new sites across Sweden in 2022. The sites, located in Gothenburg, Linköping, Lund, and Umeå, will be crucial in promoting scientific research and research infrastructure nationally, while also strengthening the collaboration between all Swedish universities. Throughout this year, each site arrange a whole day program to highlight the national and local perspectives of SciLifeLab.
Learn more about the services and infrastructure development, research highlights, and activities offered by SciLifeLab, both nationally and locally; interact with the SciLifeLab capabilities - Precision Medicine, Pandemic Laboratory Preparedness and Planetary Biology, and much more! Site Umeå cordially invite the research community of Umeå and beyond to join, network, and celebrate together the Umeå site inauguration!
More information: https://www.scilifelab.se/event/scilifelab-day-umea/
UPSC Monday Seminar 2023
11-Sep-2023 9:00 - 10:00
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 - Carina Lubrecht
15-Sep-2023 9:15 - 10:15
9:00 Carina Lubrecht
Title: Metatranscriptomic analysis of short-term nitrogen fertilization of Scots pine
Supervisor: Nathaniel Street
UPSC Monday Seminar 2023
18-Sep-2023 9:00 - 10:00
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
19-Sep-2023 10:00 - 16:15
UPSC PhD Half-time Seminar Day
Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå UniversityDepartment 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
19-Sep-2023 16:30 - 17:30
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 Welcome Meeting for Newcomers
21-Sep-2023 14:00 - 15:00
Are you new at UPSC?
We invite every newcomer at UPSC to participate in the Welcome Meeting. This meeting will be held twice per semester, four times per year and gives you important information about UPSC, how it is organised, who are your contact persons and will help you to find your way around at UPSC.
Please make sure to attend at least one meeting after your arrival at UPSC. We will serve fika for everyone participating.
We are looking forward to meeting you!
Johannes Hanson (Head of Department, UMU), Totte Niittylä (Head of Department, SLU), Ove Nilsson (Director of UPSC)
UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar: Arthur Gessler
22-Sep-2023 10:15 - 11:15
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 Seminar 2023
25-Sep-2023 9:00 - 10:00
No speakers this date
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
12th SPPS PhD Conference
27-Sep-2023
PhD 101: Everything is hard before it gets easy
27 - 29 September 2023 Lund, Sweden
More information: http://sppsphd2023.org
12th SPPS PhD Conference
28-Sep-2023
PhD 101: Everything is hard before it gets easy
27 - 29 September 2023 Lund, Sweden
More information: http://sppsphd2023.org
12th SPPS PhD Conference
29-Sep-2023
PhD 101: Everything is hard before it gets easy
27 - 29 September 2023 Lund, Sweden
More information: http://sppsphd2023.org
UPSC Monday Seminar 2023
02-Oct-2023 9:00 - 10:00
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