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April 2024
June 2024

Mon. 6 May, 2024

UPSC Monday Seminar 2024

Mon. 6 May, 2024 9:00 - 10:00
UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Asal Atakhani

Title: Quantifying cell-cell adhesion strength in plants

Supervisor: Stéphane Verger

9:30 Tuuli Aro

Title: Genomic insight into spring frost in Norway spruce: bridging updated phenotyping and predictive modeling

Supervisor: Vaughan Hurry


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC PI meeting

Mon. 6 May, 2024 10:15 - 11:15

Wed. 8 May, 2024

Cutting-Edge Seminar: Anja Geitmann

Wed. 8 May, 2024 10:00 - 11:00
Cutting-Edge Seminar: Anja Geitmann

Anja Geitmann

Professor at the Department of Plant Science, McGill University, Quebec, Canada

Title: Multi-scale control of structural functionality in plants

Host: Stéphanie Robert

Mon. 13 May, 2024

UPSC Monday Seminar 2024

Mon. 13 May, 2024 9:00 - 10:00
UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Sandeep Yadav

Title: Pavement cell shape acquisition in Arabidopsis

Supervisor: Stéphanie Robert

9:30 Sara Raggi

Title: The role of the plant cuticle during apical hook development

Supervisor: Stéphanie Robert


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC all meeting

Mon. 13 May, 2024 10:15 - 11:15

Tue. 14 May, 2024

Company Seminar: Traitomic - Agnieszka Nielsen

Tue. 14 May, 2024 16:00 - 17:00

Company Seminar: Traitomic - Agnieszka Nielsen

Speaker: Agnieszka Nielsen
Traitomic , Copenhagen, Denmark

Title: Induced genetic variation: Precision breeding utilizing conventional breeding technologies

An innovative, accelerated trait development process, enables consumer accepted precision breeding, utilizing non-GM technologies

TRAITOMIC is a Carlsberg spin-out that is specialized in developing vast libraries of genetic variants in elite germplasm to identify traits of interest in plants and microbes. We have established successful collaborations with both, universities, and the agri-food industry. Utilizing only traditional breeding techniques, TRAITOMIC fast-tracks the identification of traits by combining large genetic libraries with an innovative and patented screening method. The method was validated in various crops, including several legumes as well as tropical plants for the identification of valuable traits. The platform technology is also routinely used to develop microbial strains for applications in food, feed, and agricultural bio-solutions. This non-GM approach can lead from seed to trait or cell to trait in a few weeks, thereby accelerating project deliverables and time to market for commercial products.

Hosts: Stephan Wenkel and Jian-Feng Mao

Wed. 15 May, 2024

UPSC Seminar: Simon Law

Wed. 15 May, 2024 10:00 - 11:00

UPSC Seminar: Simon Law

Simon Law

Research Scientist
Microbiomes for One System Health (MOSH) Future Science Platform
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Canberra, Australia

Title: Charting a functional atlas of microbiome assembly across plant development 

Host: Vaughan Hurry

Mon. 20 May, 2024

UPSC Monday Seminar 2024

Mon. 20 May, 2024 9:00 - 10:00
UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:30 Isabell Rosenkranz

Title: Cold acclimation: A tug of war between transcriptional repression and activation

Supervisor: Peter Kindgren


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

Departmental meeting genfys (SLU) (APT möte)

Mon. 20 May, 2024 10:15 - 11:15

Thu. 23 May, 2024

UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar: Nils Stein

Thu. 23 May, 2024 13:00 - 14:00
UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar

Nils Stein
Professor at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany

Title: Global barley diversity and the barley pangenome

Host: Stefan Jansson

UPSC Welcome Meeting for Newcomers

Thu. 23 May, 2024 14:00 - 15:00

Are you new at UPSC?

We invite every newcomer at UPSC to participate in the Welcome Meeting. This meeting will be held twice per semester, four times per year and gives you important information about UPSC, how it is organised, who are your contact persons and will help you to find your way around at UPSC.

Please make sure to attend at least one meeting after your arrival at UPSC. We will serve fika for everyone participating.

We are looking forward to meeting you!

Johannes Hanson (Head of Department, UMU), Totte Niittylä (Head of Department, SLU), Ove Nilsson (Director of UPSC)

Mon. 27 May, 2024

UPSC Monday Seminar 2024

Mon. 27 May, 2024 9:00 - 10:00
UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Chen-Jui Yang

Title: Uncovering genetic diversity, introgression, and adaptation in three pine species through whole-genome sequencing

Supervisor: Harry Wu

9:30 Anne Van Humbeeck

Title: LITTLE TWEEZERS: novel family of potential microProteins

Supervisor: Stephan Wenkel


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

Departmental meeting fysbot (UmU) (APT möte)

Mon. 27 May, 2024 10:15 - 11:15

Wed. 29 May, 2024

UPSCtech Seminar

Wed. 29 May, 2024 14:00 - 15:30
UPSC technical seminar (UPSCtech)

The UPSCtech seminar series is an internal series organised by PhD students and Postdocs at UPSC to exchange knowledge about different methods and techniques used in plant science.

This seminar will be held  in KB.J3.01 (the room under the fika room). 

Maximiliano Estravis Barcala, a postdoc from Harry Wu’s group, will be showing you how to use the Shiny R package.
This technical seminar could help you in your quest of discovering how to show the data in a more interactive way.

For those of you wanting to join through Zoom, see below

Join Zoom Meeting 
https://slu-se.zoom.us/j/61970430535

Meeting ID: 619 7043 0535 
Passcode: 663877


Contact: Lucija Lisica & Laura García Romañach