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Cutting edge seminar - Claudia Köhler: Epigenetic control of seed
23-Jan-2012 14:00 - 15:00
Cutting Edge Seminar
Speaker:
Claudia Köhler, SLU Uppala
Title: Epigenetic control of seed development and plant speciation
Place: Lilla Hörsalen, KBC
Speaker:
Claudia Köhler, SLU Uppala
Title: Epigenetic control of seed development and plant speciation
Place: Lilla Hörsalen, KBC
Presentation of "Trees and Crops for the Future (TC4F)
24-Jan-2012 10:00 - 11:00
Welcome to a presentation of the research within the strategic initiative "Trees and Crops for the Future (TC4F), involving SLU, UmU and Skogforsk in close collaboration with Berzelii Centre for Forest biotechnology, Future Forests, The Spruce Genome Project, ICON and others. It is a large initiative that started in 2010 with a budget exceeding 20 MSEK/year.
The meeting takes place January 24, in P-O Bäckströms sal, at the Faculty of Forest Sciences in Umeå, between 10- ca 16. Researchers within the different Themes dealing with aspects of trees and forests will present the projects funded by the program and the plans for the future.
You are all most welcome, a preliminary program is presented below.
10.00 Presentation of TC4F - Jan-Erik Hällgren
10.15 Theme 1.The impact of climate on nitrogen and carbon dynamics in forests - Torgny Näsholm and collaborators
11.15 Theme 2. Forest genetics and next generation of forest trees.- Stefan Jansson and collaborators
12.15- 13.30 Lunch
13 30 Theme 3. Sustainable and adaptive forest management- Urban Nilsson and collaborators
14 30- Coffe
15.00-15 45 Discussion and questions.
So book January 24 in your calendars
Jan-Erik Hällgren
The meeting takes place January 24, in P-O Bäckströms sal, at the Faculty of Forest Sciences in Umeå, between 10- ca 16. Researchers within the different Themes dealing with aspects of trees and forests will present the projects funded by the program and the plans for the future.
You are all most welcome, a preliminary program is presented below.
10.00 Presentation of TC4F - Jan-Erik Hällgren
10.15 Theme 1.The impact of climate on nitrogen and carbon dynamics in forests - Torgny Näsholm and collaborators
11.15 Theme 2. Forest genetics and next generation of forest trees.- Stefan Jansson and collaborators
12.15- 13.30 Lunch
13 30 Theme 3. Sustainable and adaptive forest management- Urban Nilsson and collaborators
14 30- Coffe
15.00-15 45 Discussion and questions.
So book January 24 in your calendars
Jan-Erik Hällgren
Seminar - Matthieu Bagard: Large-scale analysis of transcript and metabolite levels of winter wheat exposed to ozone in field conditions
23-Feb-2012 15:00 - 16:00
SEMINAR
Title:
"Large-scale analysis of transcript and metabolite levels of winter wheat exposed to ozone in field conditions"
Speaker:
Matthieu Bagard
Faculté des Sciences et Technologie, Université Paris EST Créteil
Time: Thursday, 23 February at 15:00
Place: KBF 30, UPSC
Welcome
Per Gardeström
Title:
"Large-scale analysis of transcript and metabolite levels of winter wheat exposed to ozone in field conditions"
Speaker:
Matthieu Bagard
Faculté des Sciences et Technologie, Université Paris EST Créteil
Time: Thursday, 23 February at 15:00
Place: KBF 30, UPSC
Welcome
Per Gardeström
Cancelled! Seminar - John P. Moore
01-Mar-2012 11:00 - 12:00
This Seminar is cancelled!
NEW Seminar! Thursday, 1 March 11.00, Lilla hörsalen, KBCDepartment of Chemistry
Speaker
John P. Moore
Institute for Wine Biotechnology, Faculty of AgriSciences
Stellenbosch University
South Africa
Title:
Overexpression of the grapevine PGIP1 in tobacco leaves results in an altered arabinoxyloglucan composition in the absence of fungal infection
Host: Johan Trygg
UPSC Seminar- Matthias Holmlund: Arginine production in Cyanobacteria
05-Mar-2012 15:00 - 16:00
UPSC Seminar Series 2012
Speaker:
Matthias Holmlund
Title:
Arginine production in Cyanobacteria
Place KB3A9, Lilla hörsalen
Speaker:
Matthias Holmlund
Title:
Arginine production in Cyanobacteria
Place KB3A9, Lilla hörsalen
Möjligheternas Skog - Öppna föreläsningar
06-Mar-2012 13:00 - 17:30
Öppna föreläsningar:
Möjligheternas skog
Den 6 mars 13:00 till 17:30 P O Bäckströms sal, SLU
program som pdf
• Annika Nordin, SLU: Skogen och kolet
• Elisabet Sonntag-Öström, Umeå universitet: Skog för vila och återhämtning
• Mats Nilsson, SLU, Biosfärens betydelse för atmosfärens växthusgasbalans
• Tomas Lämås, SLU, Framtiden - en skog av möjligheter
• Hannele Tuominen, Umeå universitet:, Skogsbioteknik för ett grönare samhälle
• Kim Wickman, SLU: Implementering av ett genusperspektiv i skogs- och jägmästarutbildningarna
• Runar Brännlund, Umeå universitet: Hur ska vi använda skogen? Koka, såga, bränna eller spara den?
• Inga-Lill Persson, SLU: Älgens påverkan på skogsekosystemet
• Erland Mårald, Umeå universitet: Humanister i skogen
Möjligheternas skog
Den 6 mars 13:00 till 17:30 P O Bäckströms sal, SLU
program som pdf
• Annika Nordin, SLU: Skogen och kolet
• Elisabet Sonntag-Öström, Umeå universitet: Skog för vila och återhämtning
• Mats Nilsson, SLU, Biosfärens betydelse för atmosfärens växthusgasbalans
• Tomas Lämås, SLU, Framtiden - en skog av möjligheter
• Hannele Tuominen, Umeå universitet:, Skogsbioteknik för ett grönare samhälle
• Kim Wickman, SLU: Implementering av ett genusperspektiv i skogs- och jägmästarutbildningarna
• Runar Brännlund, Umeå universitet: Hur ska vi använda skogen? Koka, såga, bränna eller spara den?
• Inga-Lill Persson, SLU: Älgens påverkan på skogsekosystemet
• Erland Mårald, Umeå universitet: Humanister i skogen
Dissertation - Emma Hörnblad
09-Mar-2012 10:00 - 13:00
Title: Biosynthesis of glucuronoxylan in higher and lower plants - is there conservation of the enzymatic machinery?
Emma Hörnblad, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Opponent: Professor Paul Dupree, Department of Biochemistry - Hopkins Building, Cambridge, England
Place: P-O Bäckströms sal, SLU
Emma Hörnblad, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Opponent: Professor Paul Dupree, Department of Biochemistry - Hopkins Building, Cambridge, England
Place: P-O Bäckströms sal, SLU
Seminar - Martin Andresen: Reversibly switchable fluorescent proteins: mechanism, development and applications
14-Mar-2012 10:00 - 11:00
UPSC Seminar
Martin Andresen
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Department of NanoBiophotonics
Göttingen, Germany
Title:
Reversibly switchable fluorescent proteins: mechanism, development and applications
Place: Lilla Hörsalen, KBC KB3A9
Martin Andresen
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Department of NanoBiophotonics
Göttingen, Germany
Title:
Reversibly switchable fluorescent proteins: mechanism, development and applications
Place: Lilla Hörsalen, KBC KB3A9
Umeå Renewable Energy Symposium
14-Mar-2012 16:00 - 16-Mar-2012 17:00
For the fourth time the Chemistry and Biology Centre (KBC; www.kbc.umu.se) at Umeå University, Sweden, organizes 14-16 March 2012, a Renewable Energy symposium at Umeå University, Sweden.
Organizing Committee:
Hannele Tuominen, Johannes Messinger, Stellan Marklund, Per Gardeström, Göran Samuelsson
Webpage of the meeting:
http://www.kbc.umu.se/events/renewable-energy-meeting-2012
Organizing Committee:
Hannele Tuominen, Johannes Messinger, Stellan Marklund, Per Gardeström, Göran Samuelsson
Webpage of the meeting:
http://www.kbc.umu.se/events/renewable-energy-meeting-2012
Presentation of Master Thesis - Umut Rende
19-Mar-2012 14:00 - 15:00
Presentation of Master Thesis - Umut Rende
Title: Role of the photosystem II associated CAH3 in the oxygen evolving machinery in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Umut Rende
Place: KB4C10, UPSC
Supervisor: Göran Samuelsson
Umut Rende
Place: KB4C10, UPSC
Supervisor: Göran Samuelsson
UPSC Seminar - Delphine Gendre: ECHIDNA and YIP, key components of trans-Golgi-network trafficking and cell elongation
19-Mar-2012 15:00 - 16:00
UPSC Seminar Series 2012
Speaker:
Delphine Gendre
Place KB3A9, Lilla hörsalen
Speaker:
Delphine Gendre
Place KB3A9, Lilla hörsalen
Career outside academia - Thomas Kraft cancelled!
20-Mar-2012 13:00 - 14:30
The career outsida academia seminar
Thomas Kraft
is cancelled!!!
Thomas Kraft
is cancelled!!!
Career outside academia - Marie Tenning, Patent Attorney
22-Mar-2012 13:00 - 14:30
UPSC Seminar Career outside academia Seminar
Marie Tenning
European Patent Attorney
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB3A9, KBC
More information about Marie Tenning:
Marie Tenning
Patent Attorney, Office Manager Lund, European Patent Attorney Employed since 2007
Education: Ph.D. Biotechnology, Linguistics
Competence: Biotechnics, molecular biology, immunology, plant physiology, GMO, foodstuff, pharmaceutical and naturopathic preparations.
Earlier experience: Karolinska Institutet 1984-1987, Lund University 1987-1991, Novartis Seeds (Landskrona and Tolouse) 1991-1997, Danisco biotechnology 1997-1999, Albihns Malmö 1999-2003, Ström & Gulliksson 2004-2007.
Membership: SPOF, AIPPI
Marie Tenning
European Patent Attorney
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB3A9, KBC
More information about Marie Tenning:
Marie Tenning
Patent Attorney, Office Manager Lund, European Patent Attorney Employed since 2007
Education: Ph.D. Biotechnology, Linguistics
Competence: Biotechnics, molecular biology, immunology, plant physiology, GMO, foodstuff, pharmaceutical and naturopathic preparations.
Earlier experience: Karolinska Institutet 1984-1987, Lund University 1987-1991, Novartis Seeds (Landskrona and Tolouse) 1991-1997, Danisco biotechnology 1997-1999, Albihns Malmö 1999-2003, Ström & Gulliksson 2004-2007.
Membership: SPOF, AIPPI
4th UPSC-INRA (UPRA) Bilateral Meeting
26-Mar-2012 8:00 - 28-Mar-2012 20:00
The 4th UPSC-INRA (UPRA) bilateral meeting
26 - 28 March 2012, Umeå Plant Science Centre
Chemical Biological Centre (KBC) Umeå University, Sweden
Webpage of the meeting:
http://www.kbc.umu.se/events/upra-meeting
26 - 28 March 2012, Umeå Plant Science Centre
Chemical Biological Centre (KBC) Umeå University, Sweden
Webpage of the meeting:
http://www.kbc.umu.se/events/upra-meeting
Presentation of Masters Thesis: Barbara Terebieniec
30-Mar-2012 13:00 - 14:00
Presentation of Master Thesis
Barbara Terebieniec
Title:
"Gene Expression Analysis in Populus RNAi lines Targeting Xylan Biosynthesis Gene Family GT43"
Place: KBF30 Welcome!
Supervisors: Ewa Mellerowicz, László Bakó
Barbara Terebieniec
Title:
"Gene Expression Analysis in Populus RNAi lines Targeting Xylan Biosynthesis Gene Family GT43"
Place: KBF30 Welcome!
Supervisors: Ewa Mellerowicz, László Bakó
Docentföreläsning- Torgeir Hvidsten: Is biology more than stamp collecting?
30-Mar-2012 13:30 - 14:30
Docentföreläsning/
Trial lecture for appointment as a docent
Torgeir Hvidsten
Umeå Plant Science Centre/Plant Physiology
Title:
"Is biology more than stamp collecting?"
Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9
Welcome!
Göran Samuelsson
Trial lecture for appointment as a docent
Torgeir Hvidsten
Umeå Plant Science Centre/Plant Physiology
Title:
"Is biology more than stamp collecting?"
Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9
Welcome!
Göran Samuelsson
UPSC Seminar - Kenneth Keefover-Ring
02-Apr-2012 15:00 - 16:00
UPSC Seminar Series 2012
Speaker:
Kenneth Keefover-Ring
Title: Phenolic Glycoside Diversity in European Aspen
Place KB3A9, Lilla hörsalen
Speaker:
Kenneth Keefover-Ring
Title: Phenolic Glycoside Diversity in European Aspen
Place KB3A9, Lilla hörsalen
Careers outside (INSIDE!) academia seminar: Göran Samuelsson and Stefan Jansson
03-Apr-2012 13:00 - 14:00
Göran Samuelsson and Stefan Jansson
UPSC
Success factors in grant applications
Slim and Stefan will talk about the writing a grant application and
the evaluation process, respectively
Time: Tuesday 3 April at 13.00
Place: KB3A9 "Lilla hörsalen", KBC
Welcome!
Contact: Jakob Prestele
UPSC
Success factors in grant applications
Slim and Stefan will talk about the writing a grant application and
the evaluation process, respectively
Time: Tuesday 3 April at 13.00
Place: KB3A9 "Lilla hörsalen", KBC
Welcome!
Contact: Jakob Prestele
UPSC Seminar - Maria Israelsson Nordström:Red light-induced stomatal opening in Arabidopsis thaliana
10-Apr-2012 14:00 - 15:00
UPSC Seminar
Speaker
Maria Israelsson Nordström
Title: Red light-induced stomatal opening in Arabidopsis thaliana
Place: Lilla hörsalen
Speaker
Maria Israelsson Nordström
Title: Red light-induced stomatal opening in Arabidopsis thaliana
Place: Lilla hörsalen
UPSC Seminar - Yogesh Mishra: Are plants cultivated in growth chamber actually the same as plants grown in field?
17-Apr-2012 14:00 - 15:00
UPSC Seminar
Yogesh Mishra
Title:
"Are Plants Cultivated in Growth Chamber Actually the Same as Plants Grown in Field? "
Place: Lilla hörsalen
Yogesh Mishra
Title:
"Are Plants Cultivated in Growth Chamber Actually the Same as Plants Grown in Field? "
Place: Lilla hörsalen
Seminar - Ewa Kurczynska: Symplasmic communication in plant growth and development including zygotic embryogenesis
18-Apr-2012 9:00 - 10:00
Seminar at UPSC
Place: KBF 30
Title:
"Symplasmic communication in plant growth and development including zygotic embryogenesis"
Ewa Kurczynska
University of Silesia, Poland
Welcome!
Ulrika Egertsdotter
Place: KBF 30
Title:
"Symplasmic communication in plant growth and development including zygotic embryogenesis"
Ewa Kurczynska
University of Silesia, Poland
Welcome!
Ulrika Egertsdotter
UPSC Seminar - Bo Zhang: 'Dual Function of Arabidopsis PIRIN2 in Tracheary Element Ligninfication and Pathogen Resistance
23-Apr-2012 15:00 - 16:00
UPSC Seminar
Speaker
Bo Zhang
Title: Dual Function of Arabidopsis PIRIN2 in Tracheary Element Ligninfication and Pathogen Resistance
Place: Lilla hörsalen
Speaker
Bo Zhang
Title: Dual Function of Arabidopsis PIRIN2 in Tracheary Element Ligninfication and Pathogen Resistance
Place: Lilla hörsalen
Seminar - Céline Hauzy: Evolution of quantitative defenses, qualitative defenses and specialization in plant-herbivore networks
25-Apr-2012 13:30 - 14:30
Ecology and Environemental Science Seminar
Speaker:
Céline Hauzy
Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Title:
Evolution of quantitative defenses, qualitative defenses and
specialization in plant-herbivore networks
Place:Lilla hörsalen
Speaker:
Céline Hauzy
Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Title:
Evolution of quantitative defenses, qualitative defenses and
specialization in plant-herbivore networks
Place:Lilla hörsalen
UPSC Cutting Edge Seminar - George Coupland: Mechanisms of seasonal flowering in annual and perennial Brassicaceae
30-Apr-2012 10:00 - 11:00
UPSC Cutting Edge Seminar
Speaker:
George Coupland
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
Title:
Mechanisms of seasonal flowering in annual and perennial Brassicaceae
Place: Stora Hörsalen, KBC
Host: Ove Nilsson, SLU
Speaker:
George Coupland
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
Title:
Mechanisms of seasonal flowering in annual and perennial Brassicaceae
Place: Stora Hörsalen, KBC
Host: Ove Nilsson, SLU
Seminar - Thierry Delatte: Trehalose 6-phosphate, a local signal with a global impact
04-May-2012 13:00 - 14:00
UPSC Seminars 2012
Speaker: Thierry Delatte
Laboratory of Plant Physiology
Wageningen UR, The Netherlands
Title: "Trehalose 6-phosphate, a local signal with a global impact"
Place: KB3A9 "Lilla hörsalen", KBC
Speaker: Thierry Delatte
Laboratory of Plant Physiology
Wageningen UR, The Netherlands
Title: "Trehalose 6-phosphate, a local signal with a global impact"
Place: KB3A9 "Lilla hörsalen", KBC
UPSC Seminar - Jehad Shaikali: The CRYPTOCHROME1-dependent response to excess light is mediated through the transcriptional activators ZML1 and 2 in Arabidopsis thaliana
07-May-2012 15:00 - 16:00
UPSC Seminar
Speaker:
Jehad Shaikali
Title:
The CRYPTOCHROME1-dependent response to excess light is mediated through the transcriptional activators ZML1 and 2 in Arabidopsis thaliana
Place: Lilla hörsalen, KBC
Host: Åsa Strand
Speaker:
Jehad Shaikali
Title:
The CRYPTOCHROME1-dependent response to excess light is mediated through the transcriptional activators ZML1 and 2 in Arabidopsis thaliana
Place: Lilla hörsalen, KBC
Host: Åsa Strand
Career outside academia Seminar and Workshop: Douglas Reeve
11-May-2012 10:30 - 11:30
Friday, 11 May 10:30-12:00, N 450 Naturvetarhuset
UPSC Seminar Series "career outside academia"
Speaker: Douglas Reeve
University of Toronto, Canada
Title: Engineers leading change to build a better world: the case for leadership education in engineering schools
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13:30 to 16:30, N 230 (it may last less than 3 hours) 2nd floor of Naturvetarhuset
Workshop for PhD-students and postdocs on
Title:
"Values/Vision/Mission and leadership styles".
For registration to the workshop, contact Sacha Escamez by e-mail (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) BEFORE Friday 5th of May.
Only the first 40 applicants will be selected for the workshop.
UPSC Seminar Series "career outside academia"
Speaker: Douglas Reeve
University of Toronto, Canada
Title: Engineers leading change to build a better world: the case for leadership education in engineering schools
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13:30 to 16:30, N 230 (it may last less than 3 hours) 2nd floor of Naturvetarhuset
Workshop for PhD-students and postdocs on
Title:
"Values/Vision/Mission and leadership styles".
For registration to the workshop, contact Sacha Escamez by e-mail (
Only the first 40 applicants will be selected for the workshop.
Seminar -Santiago Gonzalez-Martinez: Strong population genetic structure, recent demographic decline and selection shape diversity of taxol-related genes in European yew (Taxus baccata L.):
15-May-2012 10:00 - 11:00
Seminar:
Santiago Gonzalez-Martinez
Center of Forest Research,Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria INIA, Spain
Strong population genetic structure, recent demographic decline and selection shape diversity of taxol-related genes in European yew (Taxus baccata L.)
Room: KBF 30
Santiago Gonzalez-Martinez
Center of Forest Research,Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria INIA, Spain
Strong population genetic structure, recent demographic decline and selection shape diversity of taxol-related genes in European yew (Taxus baccata L.)
Room: KBF 30
UPSC Seminar - Gergely Molnar
15-May-2012 14:00 - 15:00
UPSC Seminar
Title: CUNCTATOR, a novel player in flowering time regulation at the chromatin level in Arabidopsis
Speaker: Gergely Molnar
Place: Lilla hörsalen
Title: CUNCTATOR, a novel player in flowering time regulation at the chromatin level in Arabidopsis
Speaker: Gergely Molnar
Place: Lilla hörsalen
Thesis Defence - Carolina Bernhardsson
16-May-2012 10:00 - 12:00
Department of Ecology and Environmental Science
Thesis Defence
Carolina Bernhardsson
Title:
Molecular population genetics of inducible defense genes in Populus tremula.
Opponent: Santiago Gonzalez-Martinez
Center of Forest Research,Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria INIA, Spain
Supervisor: Stefan Jansson, UPSC
Room: KB3B1
Thesis Defence
Carolina Bernhardsson
Title:
Molecular population genetics of inducible defense genes in Populus tremula.
Opponent: Santiago Gonzalez-Martinez
Center of Forest Research,Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria INIA, Spain
Supervisor: Stefan Jansson, UPSC
Room: KB3B1