Monday, 17th of June 2024
Location: Carl Kempe salen ("Stora hörsalen"), KBC, Umeå
11:00 Registration
11:30 Lunch
13:00 Welcome and opening of the symposium
Stefan Jansson
13:05 25 years of UPSC
Ove Nilsson, Director of UPSC
13:35 Words from the Deans
Mikael Elofsson, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Umeå University
Göran Ericsson, Dean of the Faculty of Forest Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
13:45 Plant hormone and metabolite profiling at UPSC – past, present and future
Karin Ljung, Professor at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
14:15 Coffee break
14:45 Engineering Nitrogen Fixation in Eukaryotes
Stefan Burén, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Former industrial PhD student of Göran Samuelsson from UPSC in collaboration with SweTree Technologies
15:05 Exploring the role of noise in robust plant response to environmental cues
Rishikesh Bhalerao, Professor at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
15:25 Age-dependent phenological plasticity in trees
Jihua Ding, Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
Former postdoc with Ove Nilsson from UPSC
15:45 Climate adaptation in natural forest trees
Kelly Swarts, Assistant Professor and DDLS Fellow at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
16:05 Coffee break
16:35 25 years of genomics at UPSC
Nathaniel Street, Professor at the Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University
17:05 A journey in endomembrane trafficking and cell polarity, from North to South
Yohann Boutté, CNRS Researcher at The Laboratory of Membrane Biogenesis, Villenave-d’Ornon, France
Former postdoc with Markus Grebe and Rishikesh Bhalerao from UPSC
17:25 SweTree Technologies - Innovation partner
Christofer Rhen, SweTree Technologies
17:45 How did it happen?
Professor Göran Sandberg, The Wallenberg Foundations
18:30 Dinner (KBC cafeteria)
“Botanist pub” (UPSC coffee room)
