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Thu. 1 Jun, 2023

UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists

All day

Day 1 (Thursday 1st of June)

Morning session - Open for all
Venue:
Hörsal NAT.D.320
Please find map to venue here

9:00 Welcome

Symposium Part I

9:05 Grid formation and tissue emergence in the embryos of Saccharina latissima
Ioannis Theodorou
Sorbonne University, France / NMBU, Norway

9:35 Low substitution xyloglucan disrupts trafficking to the cell wall
Natalie Hoffmann
University of Toronto, Canada

10:05 A gynoecium is born: what growth patterns underlie its development
Andrea Gomez Felipe Université de Montréal, Canada

10:40 Fika (coffee break)

Symposium Part II

10:55 A molecular mechanism for root thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings
Haiyue Ai
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

11:25 Calcium signaling mediates mitochondrial intra-cellular communication during oxidative stress: Role of CIPK9-VDAC3-CIPK3 module in regulating oxidative stress responses in Arabidopsis
Barkha Ravi
University of Delhi, India

11:55 Multifaceted role of WRKYs and its cross talk under abiotic stress in Pearl Millet
Jeky Chanwala Institute of Life Sciences Bhubaneswar, India

12:25 Closing

Afternoon session - Per invitation only
Lunch
14:00-14:30 Sowing the postdoc seeds: a personal journey beyond the PhD - Laura Bacete
14:30-16:00 Project "speed-dating" with PIs (with fika)
19:00 Dinner

Contact: Stéphane Verger, Laura Bacete, Petra Marhava

Pink-coloured seedlingsPhoto: Laxmi Mishra

Please find more information about the symposium here

Fri. 2 Jun, 2023

UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists

All day
Day 2 (Friday 2nd June)

Day session - Per invitation only:

9:00-9:25 Presentation of UPSC and Umeå Postdoc Society
9:25-9:45 Visit of UPSC
Fika (coffee break)
10:00-12:00 Meetings with PIs I
Lunch
13:30-15:00 Workshop by UmU´s Research Support and Collaborations Office
15:00 Meetings with PIs II

Open for all UPSC and invited guests:

17:00 Evening activity at UPSC with dinner

Contact: Stéphane Verger, Laura Bacete, Petra Marhava 

Please find more information about the symposium here

UPSC Board Meeting Jun 2023

Fri. 2 Jun, 2023 13:00 - 15:00

Wed. 7 Jun, 2023

UPSC Monday Seminar 2023

Wed. 7 Jun, 2023 9:00 - 10:00
UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

Half-time Seminar

9:00 Özer Erguvan 
Title: Ultrastructural characterization and new molecular players of cell adhesion in plants

External evaluator: Charlotte Kirchelle, Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes INRAe / ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France

Supervisor: Stéphane Verger

Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar: Charlotte Kirchhelle

Wed. 7 Jun, 2023 14:00 - 15:00

UPSC Seminar

Charlotte Kirchhelle

Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes INRAe / ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France

Title: Shaping multi-layered organs through edge-based growth control

Read more about her research here

Host: Stéphane Verger

KBC grillfest

Wed. 7 Jun, 2023 16:00 - 20:00

Thu. 8 Jun, 2023

UPSC Seminar: Emilie Jacob (Cavel)

Thu. 8 Jun, 2023 9:00 - 10:00

UPSC Seminar

Emilie Jacob (Cavel)
CRRBM (molecular biology platform - plant phenotyping facilities),
University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France

Title: Analysis of drought stress in Arabidopsis mutants and waterlogging tolerance in barley by high-throughput phenotyping

Host: Ewa Mellerowicz

Fri. 9 Jun, 2023

Departmental meeting fysbot (UmU) (APT möte)

Fri. 9 Jun, 2023 9:00 - 10:00

PhD Half-time Seminar: Marcus Larsson

Fri. 9 Jun, 2023 13:00 - 14:00
PhD Half-time Seminar

13:00 Marcus Larsson

Title: How tree species choice and nitrogen fertilization can increase the climate benefit of managed forests

Supervisor: Annika Nordin

Mon. 12 Jun, 2023

UPSC PI meeting

Mon. 12 Jun, 2023 10:15 - 11:15

Thu. 15 Jun, 2023

Master thesis presentation - Anne Braunroth

Thu. 15 Jun, 2023 13:00 - 14:00
Master thesis presentation 2023

13:00 Anne Braunroth

Title: Plant-growth-promoting-properties of endophytic bacteria isolated from Scots pine needles

Supervisor: Annika Nordin
Co-supervisor: Tinkara Bizjak

Place: Stora Fokusrummet KB.E2.01
Link to map

Time: 13:00-14:00

Contact: Annika Nordin

Fri. 16 Jun, 2023

UPSC Midsummer Lecture and barbecue

Fri. 16 Jun, 2023 14:00 - 18:00

Welcome to the first UPSC Midsummer lecture!

Two of UPSCs most recent group leaders are presenting an overivew about their groups research. After the lecture, UPSC invites everyone working at UPSC to a joint barbecue starting at around 16:00.

14:00-14:45: MicroProteins - from identification to finding novel solutions for plant breeding
Stephan Wenkel

14:45-15:30: High-fidelity genomics to high-efficiency investigation: accurate prediction of allele-specific gene expression in poplar
Jian-Feng Mao

16:00 Midsummer Barbecue

We cordially invite everyone working at UPSC to the first UPSC Midsummer Barbecue. The registration to the barbecue is closed now. If you have questions regarding your registration, please contact Anna Gustavsson This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..


Hosts: Johannes Hanson, Totte Niittylä

Mon. 19 Jun, 2023

UPSC Monday Seminar 2023

Mon. 19 Jun, 2023 9:00 - 10:00
UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Luis Cervela-Cardona

Title: CDK8/CDKE1 modulates stress response through CAMTA3 regulation

Supervisor: Åsa Strand

9:30 Shah Hussain

Title: When to die: Arginin and Ornithine fluxes regulate the progression of leaf senescence

Supervisor: Olivier Keech


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC all meeting

Mon. 19 Jun, 2023 10:15 - 11:15