Events under 'Seminar'

UPSC Seminar 

Speaker:
Anke Carius
post-doc

Title:
Control of photosynthetic membrane expression in the anoxygenic purple bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum

Host: Göran Samuelsson

UPSC Seminar Series Fall 2013

Speaker
Thomas Stanislas
post-doc UPSC

Title: Lipid composition and endocytosis in plant cell polarity

Host: Markus Grebe

Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

Cutting Edge Seminar


Speaker:
Dario Grattapaglia
Plant Genetics Laboratory, EMBRAPA Genetic Resources and Biotechnology,
Department of Cell Biology, Universidade de Brasilia, and Genomic Sciences Program - Universidade Católica de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil

Title:
Genomic selection in forest trees

Host: Harry Wu

Room KB3A9 Lilla hörsalen, KBC

UPSC Half-time Seminar

Speaker:
Ogonna Obudulu

Title:

Combine profiling in poplar, a system biology approach 

 

Place: Lilla hörsalen KB3A9, KBC

Seminar at the Department of Chemistry

Speaker:
Ron Pace
Research School of Chemistry – Australian National University – Canberra ACT, Australia

Title: New results from computational chemistry and magnetic resonance spectroscopy on the oxygen evolving center in photosystem II- Implications for water oxidation chemistry.

Location: KB3B3

Host: Johannes Messinger

UPSC Seminars 2013 presents

Marie-Theres Hauser
Applied Genetics and Cell Biology
BOKU-University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Title: tba

Place: KB3A9, Lilla hörsalen

Host: Markus Grebe

Cutting Edge Seminar

 

Speaker:

Alain Goossens

Title: tba

 

Host: Catherine Bellini

Seminar

Speaker
Pitter Huesgen
University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada

Title:
Proteome TAILS - proteolysis and its functions revealed by positional proteomics

Host: Göran Samuelsson

Place Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

UPSC Seminar Series Fall 2013

Speaker:
Hailing Mao
postdoc

Title: Mechanisms underlying PEN3 membrane trafficking and outer lateral polarity formation

Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

Host: Markus Grebe

UPSC Seminar Series Fall 2013

Speaker:
Nico Blanco
postdoc

Title:

...Retrograde Signalling Revisited...

Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

Host: Åsa Strand

UPSC Seminar Series Fall 2013

Speaker:
Azeez Abdul
postdoc

Title: tbc

Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

Host: Rishi Bhalerao

Career Outside Academia Semiar Series 2013

Speaker:
Prof. Anton Mangstl
Affiliation: German Jordanian University, Jordan
Former Director at FAO


Résumé:
Anton Mangstl has a Ph.D. in Crop Science and is a specialist in agronomy and information management. He is now the Vice-President of the German-Jordanian University. Prior to joining the German-Jordanian University, he was the Director of the Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN since 1996. Dr. Mangstl has guided the transition of FAO's information services into the Internet age. He was the Director of the Central German Center for Agricultural Documentation, the Director of the Centre for Agricultural Documentation and Information (ZADI) Bonn, Germany, and the Deputy to the Head of the Working Group on Crop Production and Informatics, Center for Life and Food Sciences in Agriculture, Freising-Weihenstephan (Germany).


Room: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

UPSC Seminar Series Fall 2013
Half-time seminar
Speaker:
Vicky Guo
PhD

Title: tbc

Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

Host: Benedicte Albrectsen

UPSC Seminar (OBS time quarter past)

Moritz Nowack
VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University, Belgium

 
Titel:
Programmed Cell Death in plant (reproductive) development
 
Host:
Hannele Tuominen
 
Place :
KB3B1 Stora hörsalen

UPSC Seminar Series Fall 2013

Speaker:
Daniela Liebsch
post-doc

Title: Beyond meristem maintenance
Unexpected functions of SHOOT MERISTEMLESS and KNAT1 on differentiation of cambial derivatives in the Arabidopsis hypocotyl

Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

Host: Urs Fischer

UPSC Seminar Series Fall 2013
Half-time seminar by

Speaker:
Xu Jin


Title: Auxin transport during leaf abscission in Populus

Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

Host: Urs Fischer

Career Outside Academia Seminar

Victoria Sörensson
Mats Reinhold

Soft skills: how to recognize and advertise them (workshop)

Place: KB3A9 Lilla hörsalen
Host: Delphine Gendre

 

Seminar by Jack Saddler from Forest Products Biotechnology / Bioenergy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Title: The potential of biofuels and the need for a biorefinery approach (a forest products perspective)

Place and Time: Thursday, 28 Nov 15.15, Stora hörsalen KB3B1

Host: Leif Jönsson, Chemistry

UPSC Cutting Edge Seminar Series 2013

Speaker:
Eva Benkova
Institute of Science of Technology, Klosterneuburg, Austria

Host: Catherine Bellini

UPSC Seminar Series Fall 2013
Half-time Seminar
Speaker:
Franziska Bandau


Title: tbc

Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

Host: Benedikte Albrectsen

UPSC Seminar Series Fall 2013

Half-time seminar

Speaker:
Thomas Vain

Title: Chemical Genomics to Unravel Auxin Perception Controlling Arabidopsis Seedling Development”

Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

Host: Stephanie Robert

UPSC Cutting Edge Seminar

Speaker
Daniel Hofius
Department of Plant Physiology
SLU Uppsala

Title: Interplay of membrane trafficking and
autophagy during immunity-related cell death

Place: Stora hörsalen, KBC, KB3B1
Host: Stephanie Robert

UPSC Seminar Series 2014 CHANGE OF TIME!!!

Cutting Edge Seminar

Speaker:
Anthony Dodd
Royal Society Research Fellow
School of Biological Science, University of Bristol, UK

Title: Circadian regulation of chloroplasts


Host: Maria Eriksson

Place: Lilla hörsalen KBC, KB3A9

Abstract:
Circadian timekeeping improves plant performance. Understanding the cellular basis for the circadian optimization of plant function is important, because this could unlock additional agricultural productivity. There are circadian rhythms of photosynthesis and correct circadian regulation increases plant productivity, but it is not known how the circadian oscillator regulates the photosynthetic apparatus or the chloroplast genome. I will show that in Arabidopsis, a subset of chloroplast-encoded photosynthesis genes is controlled by a nuclear-encoded signalling protein. Our findings reveal one pathway by which the nuclear-encoded circadian oscillator controls rhythms of chloroplast gene expression. I will show that light and circadian signals are integrated to adjust chloroplast transcription. I will conclude that (i) during evolution, prokaryotic transcriptional regulators in chloroplasts were recruited by the eukaryotic circadian system in higher plants, and (ii) circadian timing information is communicated between organelles with distinct genetic systems.

Career outside academia seminar / event.

Topic:
Working as a high-school teacher after a life-science education

The seminar will inform about the possibilities for PhDs and post-docs to work as teachers in schools, the necessary administrative hurdles to take and the activities of e.g. Umeå University to smoothen this change from science to education.

For that we present 3 speakers with key competences:

Christina Ottander
Associate Professor in Science Education, PhD in Biology, Dep of science and mathematics education, Umeå University

Annika Kjellsson-Lind 
kanslichef för lärarhögskolan, PhD in Physics , Dep of science and mathematics education, Umeå University, high-school teacher in the past.

Nathalie Druar
PhD with Rishi, now NTI-school Umeå, Director for social science, history, religion.

I dare to say we again can offer the perfect combination of people to cover the topic!
Most welcome everybody!

Jakob Prestele

Speaker:
Deborah Goffner
Research director at CNRS Toulouse (France) based at Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar (Senegal) and Stockholm Resilience Centre (Sweden)

Title: Working as a a researcher in Africa: The Great Green Wall for the Sahara project
 

Place: Lilla Hörsalen
Host: Judith Felten

UPSC Seminar 2014

Speaker:
Arne Weiberg
Center for Plant Cell Biology,
UC Riverside, California, USA.

Title:
Fungal Small RNAs Suppress Plant Immunity by Hijacking Host RNAi Pathway.

Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

Host: Stefan Jansson

UPSC Seminar Series 2014
Cutting Edge Seminar

Speaker:
Enrico Martinoia
University of Zurich Switzerland
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea

Title: ABC transporters are major players in phytohormone transport

Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

Host: Urs Fischer

UPSC Seminar

Speaker:
Laurens Pauwels
VIB Ghent, Belgium

Title:
Dissecting the JAZ/TIFY protein interaction landscape

Host: Stephanie Robert
Room: Lilla hörsalen

UPSC Seminar Series 2014
Post-doc Seminar

Kerstin Richau
postdoc

Title:
Frankia & me:
An atypical relationship

Room KB3A9
Host AS

UPSC Seminar/CLiC/BILS seminar

Speaker:
John Marioni
EMBL-EBI/Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute/Single-Cell Genomics Centre (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/marioni

Title:
Computational challenges in single-cell transcriptomics – from immune cells to neurons

Room:
Lilla Hörsalen KB3A9

Abstract:

Recent technical developments, facilitated in large part by work at the Karolinska Institutet, have enabled the transcriptomes of hundreds of cells to be assayed in an unbiased manner. These approaches have enabled heterogeneity in gene expression levels across populations of cells to be characterized as well as facilitating the identification of new, and potentially physiologically relevant, sub-populations of cells.

However, to fully exploit such data and to answer these questions, it is necessary to develop robust computational methods that take account of both technical noise and underlying, potentially confounding, variables such as the cell cycle.

In this presentation I will begin by briefly describing how we used spike-ins to quantify technical noise in single-cell RNA-seq data, thus facilitating identification of genes with more variation in expression levels across cells than expected by chance. Subsequently, I will discuss a computational approach that uses latent variable models to account for potentially confounding factors such as the cell cycle before applying it to study the differentiation of Th2 cells. I will show that accounting for cell-to-cell correlations due to the cell cycle allows identification of otherwise obscured sub-populations of cells that correspond to different stages along the path to fully differentiated Th2 cells.

To conclude, I will discuss further applications of single-cell RNA-seq in the context of studying neuronal cell types, including olfactory neurons. I will also describe how we are studying heterogeneity in gene expression levels whilst taking into account the spatial location of cells from the tissue under study.

Welcome!

If you’re interested in meeting personally with John, contact Jeanette Tångrot and Nicolas Delhomme ( jeanette.tangrot at molbiol.umu.se and nicolas.delhomme at umu.se) as we have a few time slots available during the day.