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UPSC Monday Seminar 2023
09-Oct-2023 9:00 - 10:00
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
13-Oct-2023 9:00 - 10:30
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 (
UPSC Monday Seminar 2023
16-Oct-2023 9:00 - 10:00
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 Seminar 2023
23-Oct-2023 9:00 - 10:00
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
02-Nov-2023 15:00 - 16:00
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 Seminar 2023
06-Nov-2023 9:00 - 10:00
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
06-Nov-2023 13:00 - 14:00
Marek Mutwil
School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Title: Unraveling the rules of gene expression regulation in complex environments
Host: Stephan Wenkel
KBC Days 2023 - Day 1
07-Nov-2023
This interdisciplinary annual conference aims to foster collaborations between different departments and research centres affiliated with the Chemical Biological Centre, KBC, including departments from two faculties from Umeå University as well as from the Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU.
More information about the conference can be found here:
https://www.umu.se/en/events/kbc-days-2023_11766534/
Information meeting about Swedish Academia
07-Nov-2023 15:00 - 16:00
KBC Days 2023 - Day 2
08-Nov-2023
This interdisciplinary annual conference aims to foster collaborations between different departments and research centres affiliated with the Chemical Biological Centre, KBC, including departments from two faculties from Umeå University as well as from the Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU.
More information about the conference can be found here:
https://www.umu.se/en/events/kbc-days-2023_11766534/
UPSC Monday Seminar 2023
13-Nov-2023 9:00 - 10:00
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
16-Nov-2023 10:30 - 12:00
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 (
PhD Student Halftime Seminar - Teitur Ahlgren
16-Nov-2023 15:00 - 16:00
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 2023
20-Nov-2023 9:00 - 10:00
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
Two EMG Seminars: El-Kassaby & Burczyk
22-Nov-2023 13:00 - 14:30
Department of Ecology and Environmental Science (EMG)
13:00-13:45 Yousry El-Kassaby
University of British Columbia, Canada
Title: Breeding without Breeding Evolution: from speeding breeding to genetic parameters unprecedented accuracy
13:50-14:30 Jarosław Burczyk
Department of Genetics, Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland
Title: Long-distance pollen dispersal in forest trees: myth or reality?
Host: Xiao-Ru Wang
UPSC Monday Seminar 2023
27-Nov-2023 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Lucija Lisica
Title: Unravelling the contribution of mechanosensing to cell-cell adhesion in plants
Supervisor: Stéphane Verger
9:30 Dhruv Agrawal
Title: Bioprospecting thermophilic fungi for auxiliary and accessory activity proteins
Supervisor: Catherine Bellini
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
UPSC Welcome Meeting for Newcomers
30-Nov-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 Monday Seminar 2023
04-Dec-2023 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Varvara Dikaya
Title: Identifying the role of PCP in acclimation to cold temperatures
Supervisor: Markus Schmid
9:30 Ling Cheng
Title: Insights into the functionality of ABCB transporters in the face of temperature stress
Supervisor: Petra Marhava
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
UPSC Christmas Lunch 2023
06-Dec-2023 12:00 - 14:00
UPSC Christmas lunch
The Christmas lunch will start at 12.00 o'clock and will include e.g. rice pudding, ham, glögg and more.
Date: Wednesday, 7th December 2022
Place: Skogis Kårhus (SLU’s student union house), Umeå
PhD Thesis Defence: Pierrick Bru
08-Dec-2023 9:00 - 13:00
Pierrick Bru
Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University
Title: Investigating the molecular mechanism of photoprotection qH, in Arabidopis thaliana
Faculty opponent: Stefano Caffarri, Department of Biology, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France
Supervisor: Alizée Malnoë