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UPSC Monday Seminar 2023
11-Dec-2023 9:00 - 10:00
9:30 Xuemin Ma
Title: Identification of tissue-specific hormonal regulation of root hair development and response to wounding stress
Supervisor: Peter Marhavý
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
2nd UPSC Christmas lecture
15-Dec-2023 13:30 - 15:00
2nd UPSC Christmas lecture
13.30: Deciphering plant fortresses: insights into plant cell wall integrity
Laura Bacete, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University
14.15: The soil microbiome and the fate of carbon
Vaughan Hurry, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU
15.00: Christmas fika with "pepparkakor" and "glögg" in the UPSC lunchroom
UPSC Monday Seminar 2023
08-Jan-2024 9:00 - 10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
UPSC Monday Seminar 2024
15-Jan-2024 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Aswin Nair
Title: Control of bud break - a role for CIB transcription factors
Supervisor: Rishikesh Bhalerao
9:30 Shruti Choudhary
Title: Nitrate responses on a cellular level in the cambial region of hybrid aspen
Supervisor: Hannele Tuominen
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
Seminar series "Outside of Academia": #6 Can the innovation system be useful for your career?
18-Jan-2024 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar series
"Outside of Academia": #6 Can the innovation system be useful for your career?
Do you want to know which career paths are waiting for you outside of academia?
Title: Can the innovation system be useful for your career?
Speakers: Pia Kayser from the Umeå Biotech Incubator and Sofia Mayans from Inficure Bio
Pia Kayser and Sofia Mayans have both worked in companies with support from the innovation system. And both are now working within the innovation system. During this seminar they will tell you about their journey: why they chose to leave academia, how it was to work in a small startup as well as why they are working at the innovation system today. They will also discuss how you can use the innovation systems at UmU and SLU to get a career outside of academia. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in a networking lunch afterward.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/1swhdMCPGYBw5phL7
Contact:
For questions, please contact the organisers Laura Tünnermann (
UPSC Monday Seminar 2024
22-Jan-2024 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Vladimir Skalický
Title: From single cell to root system shaping in response to nitrogen
Supervisor: Karin Ljung
9:30 Reyes Maria Benlloch
Title: LupinOMICs to dissect environmental signals controlling lupin development
Visiting guest
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
PhD student Halftime Seminar - Julie Guerreiro
24-Jan-2024 10:30 - 11:30
UPSC PhD Student Halftime Seminar
10:30 Julie Guerreiro
Title: Characterization of tissue specific molecular signaling pathway controlling plant defense responses
External evaluator: Charles Melnyk, Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala, SLU
Supervisor: Peter Marhavý
UPSC Seminar - Charles Melnyk
24-Jan-2024 14:00 - 15:00
Charles Melnyk, Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala, SLU
Title: The hormonal regulation of parasitic plant infection
Abstract
Parasitic plants are globally prevalent pathogens that attach to and infect a wide range of plant hosts. Key to their success is the formation of the haustorium that fuses to and invades hosts tissues to connect to the vasculature of often distantly related species. Despite their agricultural impact and ecological importance, we have little understanding of how such haustoria form and successfully infect. Here, I will discuss my group’s efforts to understand the developmental basis of plant parasitism and haustoria formation using the parasitic plant Phtheirospermum japonicum and host Arabidopsis thaliana. I will present our work showing that high nitrogen levels act as an external cue to repress haustoria formation via the hormone ABA. I will also present our recent work looking at the systemic regulation of haustoria formation. There, we have uncovered a mechanism whereby existing haustoria repress the formation of future haustoria. This auto-regulation acts systemically in the parasite and depends on the mobile hormone cytokinin that is locally upregulated in haustoria during infection. Altogether, our research sheds light on the importance of cytokinin and ABA to regulate haustoria numbers according to both local and environmental cues to balance resource acquisition.
Host: Peter Marhavý
UPSC Monday Seminar 2024
29-Jan-2024 9:00 - 10:00
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9:30 tba
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Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
Demystifying academic publishing and the editorial world
30-Jan-2024 13:00 - 14:30
Listen to Sonhita Chakraborty a former editor at Elsevier and Cell Press.
Have you ever wondered about what happens after you hit submit and send your paper to a journal? Do you know what a scientific editor does? Do you like to think and read about scientific concepts over a piping hot cup of coffee?
Then a career in scientific editing might be just the thing for you! Listen to Umeå Plant Science Centre postdoc Sonhita Chakraborty.
After completing her PhD in plant molecular biology from the University of Toronto, Sonhita worked as an editor for an editing company, the academic publishing company Elsevier and its associated partner Cell Press.
Besides giving you a basic rundown of academic publishing and where it is heading, Sonhita will tell you about her journey, how she got into editorial work, what the day-to-day of an editor looks like and help you decide if it’s a career option for you.
This seminar is jointly organised by "Outside of Academia" seminar series and Umeå Postdoc Society (UPS).
Contact:
For questions, please contact Laura Tünnermann (
UPSCtech: Scientific Illustration workshop
01-Feb-2024 13:30 - 16:30
UPSCtech: Scientific Illustration workshop
How to design a graphical abstract
Workshop by Meike Latz, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
13:30 Introduction to the science behind effective visuals
14:15 Design your own graphical abstract (you will only need two sheets of paper and a pen)
15:30 Basic tools in Adobe Illustrator (bring your own laptop)
Feel free to join between sessions
Fika will also be served, so please fill in the registration form here:
https://forms.gle/3PsHdnB52cyXueie7
Last date to register is January 19th
Contact person: Laura Garcia,
UPSC Monday Seminar 2024
05-Feb-2024 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Madhusree Mitra
Title: Novel linkages between polysaccharides and lipids in the cell wall
Supervisor: Ewa Mellerowicz
9:30 Loïc Talide
Title: Crafting tailored tools to study cell wall properties and carbon metabolism
Supervisor: Totte Niittylä
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
UPSC Monday Seminar 2024
12-Feb-2024 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Kristoffer Jonsson
Title: Bending the rules: how plants control their shape through an endogenous developmental program
Supervisor: Stefan Jansson
9:30 Garima Pandey
Title: Effect of drought stress on wood development in hybrid aspen
Supervisor: Ewa Mellerowicz
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
UPSC Seminar - Daniel Van Damme
15-Feb-2024 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker: Daniël Van Damme
VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium
Title: Order and disorder in clathrin-mediated endocytosis
Host: Stéphanie Robert
Seminar series "Outside of Academia": #7 Working in Umeå – Skogforsk
15-Feb-2024 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar series
"Outside of Academia": #7 Working in Umeå – Skogforsk
Do you want to know which career paths are waiting for you outside of academia? Then listen to Henrik Svennerstam and Jörgen Hajek from Skogforsk.
Skogforsk is the forestry research institute of Sweden with a mission to develop and communicate knowledge about forests, and promote sustainability in forestry through research, services and products. Both Henrik Svennerstam and Jörgen Hajek have been working at Skogforsk for years in their silviculture team. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in a networking lunch afterwards.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/PTp7qgG5b6wtd2rh9
Last date for registration is February 14
Contact:
For questions, please contact the organisers Laura Tünnermann (
SILVA PhD course: Wood Biology and Biotechnology, 5 ECTS
19-Feb-2024 0:00 - 24-Feb-2024 0:00
Development of novel wood-based products requires an understanding of the biological processes that lead to wood cell differentiation including cell division, expansion, secondary cell wall formation and programmed cell death. Currently though there is a lack of complete and updated information on these topics in a form of a book.
This PhD course will fill this gap and provide an overview of these biological processes, explaining how they lead to developing different kinds of wood, and how they affect wood traits of economic importance. Lectures and seminars are given by world experts in the field. Current tools for studying wood biology, wood structure, wood mechanics and wood chemical composition are introduced with practical demonstrations. Bioinformatics tools to answer student’s biological question on wood biology will be introduced and practiced during a training session. Social evening activities along with research project poster presentations by the students will allow free interactions and discussions among the students and the lecturers. The course literature is consisted of approx. 20 research and review papers suggested by the lecturers.
More information and registration: https://www.slu.se/en/ew-calendar/2024/2/wood-biology-and-biotechnology/
Deadline for application: 12th of January 2024 (the number of participants is limited to 18)
UPSC Monday Seminar 2024
19-Feb-2024 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Clydecia Spitzer
Title: Aboveground and belowground traits are coordinated across twelve boreal tree species
Supervisor: Sandra Jämtgård, Associated UPSC group leader
9:30 Thomas Wieloch
Title: Mechanisms controlling carbon assimilation of aspen leaves
Supervisor: Totte Niittylä
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
Extra Seminar: Gunnar von Heijne
22-Feb-2024 11:00 - 12:00
hosted by UPSC-associated group leader Wolfgang Schröder
Title: Cotranslational protein folding
Speaker: Gunnar von Heijne, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Stockholm
Contact: Wolfgang Schröder
Extra Edge Seminar: Werner Kühlbrandt
22-Feb-2024 16:15 - 17:15
Extra Edge Seminar in connection to André Graça dissertation (Department of Chemistry)
hosted by UPSC-associated group leader Wolfgang Schroeder
Title: High-resolution cryoEM of membrane protein complexes from and in mitochondria
Speaker: Werner Kühlbrandt, Professor emeritus at the Department of Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Contact: Wolfgang Schroeder