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UPSC Monday Seminar 2024
26-Feb-2024 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Eduardo Rodriguez
Title: Comparative gene expression analysis revealing the evolution of tree genome
Supervisor: Nathaniel Street
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
KBC stafetten 2024
28-Feb-2024 10:00 - 12:00
Registration is open now for the annual cross-country skiing relay, KBC Stafetten, which will take place on Wednesday, 28 February, 2024!
Everyone is welcome to join in: staff members, PhD students, and postdocs from different departments from UmU and SLU, and from beginners to experts!
Register a team of four with your colleagues (of mixed genders), or, if you do not plan to participate yourself, come over and support your favourite teams by cheering for them!
The start will be at 10:00 on campus next to Teknikhuset and SLU.
More information and the registration form:
https://www.umu.se/en/chemical-biological-centre/kbc_events/kbc-stafetten-2024/
Registration deadline: 21 February 2024.
Contact:
UPSC Welcome Meeting for Newcomers
29-Feb-2024 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 2024
04-Mar-2024 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Mishaneh Asgari
Title: The transcriptional landscape in Norway spruce
Supervisor: Peter Kindgren
9:30 Sanchali Nanda
Title: Spectroscopic characterisation of an NPQ complex and its correlation with thylakoid ultrastructure: a photosynthetic tale of Arabidopsis and aspen
Supervisor: Stefan Jansson
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
UPSC Monday Seminar 2024
11-Mar-2024 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Gibberellins - mass spectrometry method development
Title: Mareike Gutensohn
Supervisor: Annika Johansson
9:30 Jasim Basheer
Title: Understanding temperature mediated plasma membrane dynamics in PIN2-based auxin transport
Supervisor: Petra Marhava
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar: Joris Sprakel
12-Mar-2024 13:00 - 14:00
Joris Sprakel
Professor at the Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Title: See the force: new eyes on green mechanobiology
Host: Peter Marhavý
Seminar series "Outside of Academia": #8 Swedish Defence Research Agency
13-Mar-2024 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar series
"Outside of Academia": #8 Swedish Defence Research Agency
Do you want to know which career paths are waiting for you outside of academia? Then listen to Johanna Qvarnström from the Swedish Defence Research Agency.
Johanna Qvarnström is working as an analytical chemist at the Swedish Defence Research Agency in Umeå. Her background is in analytical chemistry. Before switching to the industry Johanna finished her Ph.D. at Umeå University and continued her academic career as a Postdoc at UPSC. After her Postdoc Johanna joined the biotech company Karo Bio. Johanna will share her career path from academia to industry and introduce us to the Swedish Defence Research Agency. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in a networking lunch afterwards.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/Tbs6WPnWrJyMr4pb
Contact:
For questions, please contact the organisers Laura Tünnermann (
PhD Thesis Defence: Bodil Häggström
14-Mar-2024 9:00 - 12:00
PhD Thesis Defence
Bodil Häggström
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Title: Improving boreal forest regeneration in a variable climate
Faculty opponent: Douglass Jacobs, Fred M. van Eck Professor of Forest Biology, Department of Forest and Natural Resources, Purdue University, USA
Supervisor: Annika Nordin
Link to PhD thesis: https://publications.slu.se/?file=publ/show&id=128176
You can also attend online:
https://slu-se.zoom.us/j/66376831020?pwd=c0VGYmVxa3Y1aWxLYzJWUlZqVnJVQT09
Code: 346198
All interested are welcome to attend!
UPSC Monday Seminar 2024
18-Mar-2024 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Alice Marcon
Title: The interplay between FT-like and TFL-like genes in the control of phenology and flowering time in Populus trees
Supervisor: Ove Nilsson
9:30 Alexander Vergara
Title: GUN1 retrograde signaling pathway can affect photomorphogenesis through differetial nuclear alternative splicing
Supervisor: Åsa Strand
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists 2024
21-Mar-2024
Day 1 (Thursday 21st of March)
9:00 Welcome by Johannes Hanson
9:05 Plant cell’s borderline in cell fate
Andriani Mentzelopoulou, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
9:35 The Role of the Plant Endomembrane System in Salt Stress Tolerance
Daniel McKay, University of Heidelberg, Germany
10:05 Unravelling the role of root cap in shaping the Arabidopsis response towards abiotic stress
Krishna Kodappully Das, IISER Tirupati, India
10:40 Fika (coffee break)
10:55 Physiological, molecular and genetic mechanisms of adaptation to alkaline in Arabidopsis thaliana populations
Laura Perez Martin, University of Geneva, Switzerland
11:25 The ups and downs of being an outdoor plant-The epigenetic and transcriptomic landscape of Arabidopsis thaliana acclimated to fluctuating light
Robyn Emmerson, University of Birmingham, UK
11:55 Comparing genomic prediction methods for (relatively) oligogenic traits: a case study in maize grain carotenoids
Mary-Francis LaPorte, University of California, Davis, USA
The afternoon programme is tailored to the invited candidates and not open for everyone.
Please find more information about the symposium here
Contact: Laura Bacete, Petra Marhava, Stéphane Verger
UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists 2024
22-Mar-2024
Day 2 (Thursday 22nd of March)
9:00 - 11:00: EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship writing course for principal investigators and incoming postdocs organsied by the Research Support and Collaboration Office from Umeå University
This workshop is open for everyone but registration is needed. More information and registration: https://www.umu.se/en/events/learn-how-to-apply-for-msca-postdoctoral-fellowships_11902275/
The rest of the programme is taylored to the invited candidates but in the evening everyone working at UPSC is invited for a UPSC Pizza & Ping-Pong evening starting at 18:00.
Please find more information about the symposium here
Contact: Laura Bacete, Petra Marhava, Stéphane Verger
UPSC Monday Seminar 2024
25-Mar-2024 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Florent Velay
Title: Can we CRISPR out the chloroplastic genome?
Supervisor: Rishikesh Bhalerao
9:30 Maria Kidwai
Title: Deciphering the role of COP9 signalosome CSN5A and CSN5B subunits in Arabidopsis thaliana adventitious root formation
Supervisor: Catherine Bellini
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
UPSC Seminar: Laura Riggi & Formas Mobility Grant for Postdoc Studies
27-Mar-2024 9:00 - 10:00
UPSC Seminar: Laura Riggi
Dr Laura Riggi
Postdoc Fellow at the Department of Ecology, Uppsala, SLU & at Wageningen University, the Netherlands.
Title: Crop diversity effects on soil-mediated services in potato-ley strip-cropping systems"
Host: Benedicte Albrectsen
After the talk there will an opportunity to talk to Laura about the Formas Mobility Grant for Postdoc Studies.
UPSC Monday Seminar 2024
08-Apr-2024 9:00 - 10:00
UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024
9:00 Ondřej Hodek
Title: Development of LC-MS methods for metabolomics
Supervisor: Thomas Moritz
9:30 Loïc Talide
Title: Crafting tailored tools to study plant 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 Cutting-Edge Seminar: Joshua Gendron
09-Apr-2024 10:00 - 11:00
Joshua Gendron
Associate Professor at the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Title: New horizons in plant photoperiodism
Host: Stephan Wenkel
UPSC Monday Seminar 2024
15-Apr-2024 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Luciano Di Fino
Title: Mechanical stimuli enhancing and orienting cell divisions
Supervisor: Peter Marhavý
9:30 Barbora Jelinková
visiting PhD student from Czech Republic
Title: ARP2/3 behind the wall
UPSC Host: Stéphane Verger
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
WWSC visit to UPSC: seminars and guided tours of infrastructures
16-Apr-2024 13:00 - 16:30
Visit by the Wallenberg Wood Science Centre (WWSC) Research School
Approximately 60 PhD students from WWSC, Luleå University of Technology and Åko Akademi, Finland will visit UPSC.
UPSC staff are especially encouraged to participate in the session between 14:00-15:00 to learn more about our guest's research and what they do, but of course also the first hour of talks is open to UPSC staff. The guided tours are reserved for Research School visitors only.
Seminar (13:00-15:00)
13:00 Ove Nilsson - Welcome to UPSC
13:15 Hannele Tuominen - Improving wood properties in forest trees
13:25 Totte Niittylä - Carbon dioxide assimilation and wood formation in trees
13:35 Ewa Mellerowicz - Modification of wood traits by targeting matrix polysaccharides
13:45 Stéphane Verger - Understanding plant cell adhesion to improve wood quality
13:55 Short break
WWSC, LTU & Åbo Akademi Speakers
14:00 Lauren McKee/Anette Larsson - WWSC Introduction
14:10 PhD student pitches (ca 2 min each)
Shao-Hsi Lu, Chalmers University of Technology, WWSC Programme 1 (Materials biorefinery)
Marita Afiandika, Chalmers University of Technology, WWSC Programme 4 (Functional materials)
Kesavan Sekar, Chalmers University of Technology, WWSC Programme 3 (Processing and structural materials)
Renald George Swamy, Luleå University of Technology, Treesearch
Julia Chrzastowska, Åbo Akademi (Finland)
Shujun Liang, Åbo Akademi (Finland)
Alexandra Sandéhn, Linköping University, WWSC Programme 4 (Functional materials)
Alíz Lalik, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, WWSC Programme 3 (Processing and structural materials)
Read more about WWSC here: https://wwsc.se/research/
Read more about Treesearch here: https://treesearch.se/
14:30-15:00 Fika
Guided Tours of UPSC Infrastructures (15:00-16:30)
15:00 Introduction (Carl Kempe Salen)
15:10 Tour 1 (40 min)
15:50 Tour 2 (40 min)
16:30 End of guided tours
Contact: Ove Nilsson
UPSC Monday Seminar 2024
22-Apr-2024 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Tinkara Bizjak
Title: Do isolated Scots pine endophytic nitrogen-fixing bacteria have potential as plant growth-promoting bacteria in agriculture?
Supervisor: Annika Nordin
9:30 Alexis Brun
Title: Early harvest of the light: illuminating the epigenetic regulation of photosynthesis establishment
Supervisor: Åsa Strand
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel