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Seminar - Nicolas Delhomme: The “de facto” UPSC Bioinformatics Facility formalisation and its ongoing research
23-Nov-2015 10:00 - 11:00
Post-doc Seminar
Speaker:
Nicolas Delhomme
Title:
The “de facto” UPSC Bioinformatics Facility formalisation and its ongoing research
Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9
PhD Thesis defence - Melis Kucukoglu
27-Nov-2015 10:00 - 12:00
Title: Molecular Regulation of Vascular Cambium Identity and Activity
Respondent: Melis Kucukoglu
Opponent: Prof. Christian Hardtke, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
(http://wp.unil.ch/hardtkelab)
Time and Place: 2015-11-27, 10:00, Björken SLU
Seminar - Christian S. Hardtke: Autocrine peptide signals, self-organization and zombie cells: molecular switches in phloem formation
27-Nov-2015 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker:
Christian S. Hardtke
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Title:
Autocrine peptide signals, self-organization
and zombie cells: molecular switches in phloem formation
Host: Ove Nilsson
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB3A9
Seminar Wei Wang: Characterization of SUGAR RESPONSIVE (SRV) gene family in Arabidopsis and a serendipitous discovery of an embryo lethal mutant jotunn (jot)
30-Nov-2015 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker:
Wei Wang
Title:
Characterization of SUGAR RESPONSIVE (SRV) gene family in Arabidopsis and a serendipitous discovery of an embryo lethal mutant jotunn (jot)
Place: Lilla Hörsalen KB3A9
Kempestiftelserna offentliggör Gunnar Öquist Fellows 2015
03-Dec-2015 14:00 - 15:00
Gunnar Öquist Fellows 2015
Place: KB3B1, Stora hörsalen, KBC
Participants:
Carl Kempe, Kempestiftelserna
Gunnar Öquist, Department of Plant Physiology
Lena Gustafsson, Vice-Chancellor Umeå University
Karin Ljung, Dekanus, Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU
and two new Gunnar Öquist Fellows
PhD Thesis defence - Anastasia Matrosova
04-Dec-2015 10:00 - 12:00
Respondent: Anastasia Matrosova
Opponent: Dr Tracy Lawson, University of Essex, UK
Time and Place: 2015-12-04 10.00 Aspen SLU
Cutting Edge Seminar - Michael Lynch: Mutation, Drift, and the Origins of Cellular Features
14-Dec-2015 10:00 - 11:00
Cutting Edge Seminar
Michael Lynch
Department of Biology
Indiana University
Title: “Mutation, Drift, and the Origins of Cellular Features”
Host: Rosario García Gil
Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9
Michael Lynch's website:
http://www.bio.indiana.edu/faculty/directory/profile.php?person=milynch
Seminar - Jim Whelan: Mitochondrial Signaling
27-Jan-2016 14:00 - 15:00
UPSC Seminar
Speaker:
Jim Whelan, Professor
ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology
La Trobe Co-Director, Centre for AgriBioscience
RFA Director: Securing Food, Water and the Environment
Department of Animal, Plant and Soil Science, School of Life Science La Trobe University , Victoria, 3086 , Australia
Title: Mitochondrial Signalling
Room: KB4C10
Host: Olivier Keech
Seminar - Christoffer Johnsson: Understanding secondary xylem formation and creating tools for modifying it
01-Feb-2016 10:00 - 11:00
Half-Time seminar
Speaker:
Christoffer Johnsson
Title: Understanding secondary xylem formation and creating tools for modifying it
Place Lilla hörsalen KB3A9
Host: Urs Fischer
Seminar - Daria Chrobok: Dissecting the metabolic role of mitochondria during leaf senescence in Arabidopsis thaliana
08-Feb-2016 10:00 - 11:00
Halftime Seminar
Speaker:
Daria Chrobok
Title: Dissecting the metabolic role of mitochondria during leaf senescence in Arabidopsis thaliana
Host: Olivier Keech
Cutting Edge Seminar - Seth Davis: Plant circadian clocks: mechanisms and purposes
15-Feb-2016 10:00 - 11:00
Cutting Edge Seminar
Speaker
Seth Davis
Chair of Plant Biology
Department of Biology, University of York
Heslington, York, UK
Title: Plant circadian clocks: mechanisms and purposes
Host: Maria Eriksson
Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9, KBC
Abstract:
Plant circadian clocks: mechanisms and purposes
Plant growth and stress resistance are coordinated outputs that respond to predictable environmental variation that results from the earth's rotation. An interplay exists between exogenous environmental sensing and endogenous responses. Plants use a circadian clock to time such processes such that homeostasis is achieved. This creates fitness and maximizes growth. The circadian clock itself is a multiple transcriptional-translational feedback system that provides temporal information to coordinate stress resistance and metabolic responses. In this talk I will overview clock mechanism and then highlight our current efforts to examine the metabolic, stress response and circadian systems as integrated processes. Their combined effects on growth and development will be explored in a dicot and a monocot, both in the lab and in the field.
Cutting Edge Seminar- Dave C. Nelson: Smoke and hormone mirrors: karrikins and strigolactones control plant growth through homologous signaling mechanisms
22-Feb-2016 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker
Dave C. Nelson
Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens
USA
Title: Smoke and hormone mirrors: karrikins and strigolactones control plant growth through homologous signaling mechanisms
Host: Stephanie Robert & Olivier Keech
Recent key publications:
(Full list at https://goo.gl/6b2tkK)
Conn CE, Bythell-Douglas R, Neumann D, Yoshida S, Whittington B, Westwood JH, Shirasu K, Bond CS, Dyer KA, Nelson DC. (2015) “Convergent evolution of strigolactone perception enabled host detection in parasitic plants.” Science, 349:540-43.
Soundappan I, Bennett T, Morffy N, Yueyang L, Stanga JP, Abbas A, Leyser O, Nelson DC. (2015) “SMAX1-LIKE/D53 family members enable distinct MAX2-dependent responses to strigolactones and karrikins in Arabidopsis.” Plant Cell, 27:3143-59.
Morffy N, Faure L, Nelson DC. (2016) “Smoke and hormone mirrors: action and evolution of karrikin and strigolactone signaling.” Trends in Genetics, doi:10.1016/j.tig.2016.01.002 (available online 2/2/16)
Conn CE, Nelson DC. (2016) “Evidence that KARRIKIN-INSENSITIVE2 (KAI2) receptors may perceive an unknown signal that is not karrikin or strigolactone.” Frontiers in Plant Science, 6:1219.
Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting 2016 -UREM 2016
24-Feb-2016 10:00 - 25-Feb-2016 17:00
Organizers: Christiane Funk, Sylvia Larsson, Johannes Hansson and Johannes Messinger
Registration is closed now!
Conference Website
This meeting is dedicated to presentations and discussions on how sunlight can be transformed into fuels or valuable products and applications. Examples are the storage of light energy in molecular hydrogen (H2), methanol or ethanol produced from water and or CO2 by photosynthetic organisms or by artificial photosynthesis, the cleaning of waste water and CO2-containing flue gasses with photosynthetic organisms, the production of fish food using algae and the efficient use of algae and forest biomass in biorefineries or for the production of biogas. We bring together world experts in the fields of natural and artificial photosynthesis, bioenergy and biorefinery that will interact closely with local researchers and the public to advance these fields.
The Umeå Renewable Energy meeting is an annual event in Umeå since 2009. UREM2016 will take place February 24 and 25. We will have 14 invited speakers (of which 3 give keynote lectures) and 14 local presentations. The meeting is highly interdisciplinary, with speakers and attendees having backgrounds in physics, chemistry, biology and physiology. The aim is to strengthen and focus the renewable energy related research in Umeå by inspiring the students and public. For this, also ‘Meet the speaker lunches’ will be organized for students and postdocs, and two public lectures will be held on February 23.
Conference Website
Seminar - Bernard Wessels: Ethylene signalling and wood development in Populus
29-Feb-2016 10:00 - 11:00
Half-time Seminar
Speaker:
Bernard Wessels
Title: Ethylene signalling and wood development in Populus
Host: Hannele Tuominen
UPSC Seminar - Andrew Groover: Genomic-enabled insights into growth and wood formation of Populus
03-Mar-2016 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker:
Andrew Groover
Department of Plant Biology
College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis, USA
Titel:
Genomic-enabled insights into growth and wood formation of Populus.
Host: Hannele Tuominen
Place: KB3A9
More about Andrew Groover
Thesis Defence- Sacha Escamez: Xylem cells cooperate in the control of lignification and cell death during plant vascular development
04-Mar-2016 13:00
UPSC Department of Plant Physiology
Sacha Escamez
Title:
Xylem cells cooperate in the control of lignification and cell death during plant vascular development
Faculty Examiner:
Andrew Groover, Department of Plant Biology
College of Biological Sciences
University of California, Davis, USA
Supervisor: Hannele Tuominen
Place: Lilla hörsale KB3A9
Cutting Edge Seminar - Claus Schwechheimer: PIN-ning down the function of D6PK protein kinases in auxin transport
07-Mar-2016 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker:
Claus Schwechheimer
Technische Universität München TUM, School of Life Sciences
Weihenstephan/Munich, Germany
Title: PIN-ning down the function of D6PK protein kinases in auxin transport
Host: Markus Schmid
Place Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9
Abstract:
The biosynthesis and proper distribution of the plant hormone auxin within the plant influences almost every aspect of plant growth and development. To the largest extent, differences in the morphology between plants are the results of differential auxin distribution and auxin actions at the level of individual plants cells. Whereas auxin transport from cell to cell and within a plant had for a long time been inferred solely based on the polar distribution of PIN auxin exporters, we have recently shown that PINs require activation by protein kinases, such as the D6 PROTEIN KINASE, to become active auxin transporters. I will describe the biochemistry of D6PK and mechanisms that are required for targeting D6PK to the plasma membrane and the PINs. I will also present data that challenge the current view of how PIN polarity is controlled by phosphorylation. Finally, I will highlight some other regulatory functions of D6PK that are independent of PIN-dependent auxin transport control.
Relevant References:
Arabidopsis D6PK is a lipid domain-dependent mediator of root epidermal planar polarity. Stanislas T et al.; Nature Plants 1, 15162 (2015)
Dynamic control of auxin transport-dependent growth by AGCVIII protein kinases. Barbosa IC and Schwechheimer C.; Curr Opin Plant Biol (2014) 22:108-15.
Auxin efflux by PIN-FORMED proteins is activated by two different protein kinases, D6 PROTEIN KINASE and PINOID. Zourelidou M et al. Elife (2014) 19;3.
D6 PROTEIN KINASE activates auxin transport-dependent growth and PIN-FORMED phosphorylation at the plasma membrane. Barbosa IC, Zourelidou M, Willige BC, Weller B, Schwechheimer C. Dev Cell (2014) 29(6):674-85.
D6PK AGCVIII kinases are required for auxin transport and phototropic hypocotyl bending in Arabidopsis. Willige BC et al. Plant Cell (2013) 25(5):1674-88
The polarly localized D6 PROTEIN KINASE is required for efficient auxin transport in Arabidopsis thaliana. Zourelidou M, Müller I, Willige BC, Nill C, Jikumaru Y, Li H, Schwechheimer C. Development. 2009 Feb;136(4):627-36.
In addition to the work on auxin transport that Claus will discuss about in his presentation, his lab has a long-staninding interest in the function of the COP9 signalosome and gibberellic acid (GA) signaling. More information can be found here: http://sysbiol.wzw.tum.de/index.php?id=2&L=1
Seminar - Raphael Decou: Features and analysis of lignin accumulation, composition, distribution and regulation in A. thaliana
14-Mar-2016 10:00 - 11:00
Postdoc seminar
Speaker
Raphael Decou
postdoc
Title:
Features and analysis of lignin accumulation, composition, distribution and regulation in A. thaliana
Place Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9
Host: Edouard Pesquet
Seminar - Thomas Dobrenel: Deciphering the role of the TOR-SnRK1 axis on metabolism reprogramming in Arabidopsis
21-Mar-2016 10:00 - 11:00
Postdoc Seminar
Speaker:
Thomas Dobrenel
Title: Deciphering the role of the TOR-SnRK1 axis on metabolism reprogramming in Arabidopsis
Host: Johannes Hansen
Place: Lilla Hörsalen, KB3A9
NOTE CHANGE of TIME and PLACE!!! Cutting Edge Seminars - Maria Albani and Wim Soppe
05-Apr-2016 15:15 - 16:45
UPSC Cutting Edge Seminar
Speakers:
Maria Albani and Wim Soppe
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Cologne, Germany
Titles:
Maria Albani: Arabis alpina as a model system to study flowering and perennial traits
Wim Soppe: How do seeds wake up in time?
Host: Rishikesh Bhalerao
Place: KBC- Building KB3B1, Stora hörsalen
Seminar - Abdellah Lakehal: Unraveling the molecular mechanism controlling adventitious root initiation and cell reprogramming in Arabidopsis hypocotyl
18-Apr-2016 10:00 - 11:00
Halftime-Seminar
Speaker:
Abdellah Lakehal
Title: Unraveling the molecular mechanism controlling adventitious root initiation and cell reprogramming in Arabidopsis hypocotyl
Place: Lilla hörsalen
Host: Catherine Belini
Seminar - Stefania Giacomello, SciLife Lab
18-Apr-2016 15:30 - 16:30
Title: Spatially resolved global transcriptomics in plants
Time & Place: Moday 18/4 2016, 15.15, KBF30, UPSC
Seminar - Pal Miskolczi: Photoperiodic control of growth cessation and dormancy in hybrid aspen
02-May-2016 10:00 - 11:00
Postdoc Seminar
Speaker:
Pal Miskolczi
Title: Photoperiodic control of growth cessation and dormancy in hybrid aspen
Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9
Host: Rishikesh Bhalerao
Popular Science Lectures of the new professors at SLU, Umeå
13-May-2016 8:30 - 11:00
8.30 | Arne Pommerening, professor i skoglig matematisk statistik |
Title: Can't see the wood for the trees? - The journey of mathematical forestry | |
9.00 | Vaughan Hurry, professor i skogsträdens fysiologi |
Title: Life in a hothouse world | |
10.00 | Karin Ljung, professor in plant physiology |
Title: Forskningen går under jorden – Vad kan ett ogräs lära oss om växters och träds rotutveckling? | |
10.30 | David Parsons, professor i växtodlingslära |
Title: Agricultural Systems – Finding clarity in the complexity |
For more information look here: Nya professor at SLU Umeå
PhD School on Environmental Regulation of Plant Development - Valencia 17-19 May 2016
17-May-2016
Cutting edge seminar - Rainer Hedrich: Carnivory - how to turn the sword around
24-May-2016 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker:
Rainer Hedrich
Title:
Carnivory - how to turn the sword around
Host: Catherine Bellini
Room: KB3A9 Lilla hörsalen
Seminar - Wolfgang Dröge-Laser: Low energy signalling in plants: the SnRK1- bZIP connection
25-May-2016 11:00 - 12:00
UPSC Extra Seminar
Speaker
Wolfgang Dröge-Laser
Department of Pharmaceutical Biology
Biozentrum Universität Würzburg
Title:
Low energy signalling in plants: the SnRK1- bZIP connection
Host: Johannes Hanson
Seminar - Fikret Isik: Genomic selection in trees
26-May-2016 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker:
Fikret Isik
North Carolina State University, USA
Title:
Genomic selection in trees
Host: Harry X.Wu
Room: Stora hörsalen KB3B1, KBC
Thesis Defence - Zhi-qiang Chen: Quantitative Genetics of Norway Spruce in Sweden
27-May-2016 10:00 - 11:00
Thesis Defence
Zhi-qiang Chen
Title:
Quantiative Genetics of Norway Spruce in Sweden
Faculty Examiner:
Professor Fikret Isik, Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA.
Supervisor:
Harry, X. Wu
Place: P-O Bäckström sal, SLU Library Building, SLU, Umeå
UPSC Days 2016
30-May-2016 9:00 - 31-May-2016 23:00
We welcome you to the UPSC Days 2016!
They will take place the 30-31 May 2016 at Skogshögskolan (SLU, Umeå).
The meeting will focus on cutting edge research in plant science and highlight new initiatives and facilities here at the UPSC. Besides talks we will have an extended poster session during lunch and coffee breaks.
We like to encourage every participant to submit a proposal for a poster title together with the registration. The UPSC Young Scientist Symposium is included in the UPSC days.
Location: P.O. Bäckström salen and Åteln, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU) in Umeå
Programme and registration
Contact: Anne Honsel,