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UPSC /UPRA Seminar - Nicolas Rouhier: Roles of Nfu proteins for the assembly of iron-sulfur clusters in chloroplasts
20-Aug-2013 10:00
Speaker:
Nicolas Rouhier
Université de Lorraine/INRA Interactions Arbres Microorganismes
VANDOEUVRE-Lès-NANCY, FRANCE
Title:
Roles of Nfu proteins for the assembly of iron-sulfur clusters in chloroplasts
Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9, KBC
Hosts: Gunnar Wingsle/Göran Samuelsson
Cutting Edge Seminar - Oliver J. Ratcliffe: Novel technology to enhance tomorrow's harvest
26-Aug-2013 10:00
Cutting Edge Seminar
Olivier J. Ratcliffe
Mendel Biotechnology, Inc., Hayward, California, USA
"Novel technology to enhance tomorrow's harvest"
Place: CHANGE of ROOM!
KB3A9 "Lilla hörsalen", KBC
Host: Totte Niittylä
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Biography: Oliver is Senior Vice President of R&D at Mendel Biotechnology, Inc., a privately-held plant biotechnology company based in the San Francisco Bay Area (http://www.mendelbio.com/index.php). Oliver joined Mendel in 1999 and fulfilled a number of technical roles prior to being appointed as head of research in December 2005. He is a named inventor on more than 40 issued patents and published patent applications and has authored a range of scientific papers on topics including developmental biology, the control of flowering, and the regulation of environmental stress responses in plants. Oliver received a B.A. in Natural Sciences (Part II Genetics) from Cambridge and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the John Innes Centre at the University of East Anglia in the UK. Oliver also holds an MBA from the Judge Business School at Cambridge University.
Seminar outline. Human demands on the planet's agricultural production systems create a long-term sustained need for new technology to improve crop productivity. Oliver will discuss the approaches that Mendel Biotechnology has taken in pursuit of this goal over the past 15 years. The talk will open with an overview of how the company, starting with an early focus on biotechnology traits for yield and stress tolerance based on transcription factors, has developed a leading knowledge base of the plant gene regulatory networks (PGRNs) that control important aspects of crop productivity. He will then explain how this understanding of transcriptional networks is being leveraged to develop unique tools that enable the discovery and development of new chemical and biological products that can be applied to boost multiple aspects of plant performance. Such products represent a brand-new emergent segment within the agrochemical industry, which offers both significant growth potential as well as the opportunity to markedly improve the productivity of a broad spectrum of crops.
Cutting Edge Seminar - Frederic Berger: Beyond packaging : roles and functions of Histones variants in plants
02-Sep-2013 10:00
Speaker
Frederic Berger
Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore
Title:
Beyond packaging : roles and functions of Histones variants in plants
Place:
KB3A9, Lilla hörsalen KBC
Host: Laszlo Bako
For a detailed description of his research interests, please visit his homepage http://www.tll.org.sg/group-leaders/frederic-berger/.
Publication list:
- Vu MT, Nakamura M, Calarco JP, Susaki D, Lim PQ, Kinoshita T, Higashiyama T, Martienssen RA, Berger F. (2013) RNA-directed DNA methylation regulates parental genomic imprinting at several loci in Arabidopsis. Development.
- Calarco J, Borges F, Donoghue M, Van Ex F, Jullien P, Lopes T, Gardner R, Berger F, Feijó J, Becker J, Martienssen R.. (2012) Reprogramming of DNA Methylation in Pollen Guides Epigenetic Inheritance via Small RNA. Cell 151: 194-205.
- Jullien PE Susaki D Yelagandula R Higashiyama T Berger F. (2012) DNA methylation dynamics during sexual reproduction in Arabidopsis thaliana. Current Biology 22: 10.1016/j.cub.2.
- Wollmann H, Holec S, Alden K, Clarke ND, Jacques P-E, Berger F. (2012) Dynamic Deposition of Histone Variant H3.3 Accompanies Developmental Remodeling of the Arabidopsis Transcriptome. PLoS Genetics 8: e1002658.
- Holec S, Berger F. (2012) Polycomb group complexes mediate developmental transitions in plants.. Plant Physiology 158: 35-42
- Chen Z, Higgins JD, Tan JLH, Li J, Franklin FCH, Berger F. (2011) Retinoblastoma protein is essential for early meiotic events in Arabidopsis. The EMBO Journal 30: 744-755
- Hamamura Y, Saito C, Awai C, Kurihara D, Miyawaki A, Nakagawa T, Kanaoka M, Sasaki N, Nakano A, Berger F, and Higashiyama T.. (2011) Live-Cell Imaging Reveals the Dynamics of Two Sperm Cells during Double Fertilization in Arabidopsis thaliana.. Current Biology 21: 497-502
- Wollmann H and Berger F. (2011) Epigenetic reprogramming during plant reproduction and seed development. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 15: 63-69
- Berger F and Twell D. (2011) The plant Germline.. Annual review Plant Biology 62: 461-484
- Kawashima T and Berger F. (2011) Green love talks; cell–cell communication during double fertilization in flowering plants.. Annals of Botany 2011: doi: 10.1093/ao
- Ingouff M, Rademacher S, Holec S, Šoljic L, Nie X, Readshaw A, Foo SH, Lahouze B, Sprunck S, Berger F. (2010) Zygotic Resetting of the HISTONE 3 Variant Repertoire Participates in Epigenetic Reprogramming in Arabidopsis. Current Biology 20: 2137-2143
- Aw SJ, Hamamura Y, Chen Z, Schnittger A, Berger F. (2010) Sperm entry is sufficient to trigger division of the central cell but the paternal genome is required for endosperm development in Arabidopsis. Development 137: 2683-2690
- Jullien PE, Berger F. (2010) DNA methylation reprogramming during plant sexual reproduction?. Trends in Genetics 26: 394–399
Seminar Sebastian Bednarek: Seeing Stars: Conserved and Plant-Specific Clathrin-Coated Vesicle Machinery in Cytokinesis and Cell Expansion
02-Sep-2013 15:00
Sebastian Bednarek
Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin- Madison
Title:
Seeing Stars: Conserved and Plant-Specific Clathrin-Coated Vesicle Machinery in Cytokinesis and Cell Expansion
Room: KB4C10, KBC
Host: Rishikesh Bhalerao
Master thesis presentation - Hanhan Xia: Influence of Lhcb3 and Lhcb5 on photosynthesis of plants lacking Lhcb1 and Lhcb2
06-Sep-2013 13:00
Hanhan Xia
Department of Plant Physiology
"Influence of Lhcb3 and Lhcb5 on photosynthesis of plants lacking Lhcb1 and Lhcb2"
Place: KBF 30
Supervisor: Stefan Jansson
Career outside academia seminar - Florin Paun: From Research to Business Development: challenges in how to create value
06-Sep-2013 15:00
Speaker:
Florin Paun
Business Development Deputy Director at ONERA
Title:
From Research to Business Development: challenges in how to create value
Host:
Daniel Pacurar
Room: KB3A9, lilla hörsalen
Resume:
Dr. Florin Paun is Business Developpement Deputy Director at ONERA since January 2005. He is in charge with the Technology Transfer and International Development, and defines programs and new partnership policies focusing on complementary knowledge, cross suporting offers, mutual intellectual property valuation, joint spin-off,…
Previously, he was Senior Science and Technology Expert in materials and structures, Project Coordinator for Multifunctional Materials Program at ONERA, Technical Correspondant for ONERA – DARPA project on Design of High Temperature Acoustic Absorbent Materials and also teached for master degree in aerospace.
In parallel Dr. Paun has extensive business development experience outside France, especially in emerging East-European markets. He had created his own Engineering and Development Company and he is an associated founder of a dynamic start-up in France.
He obtained his PhD at ENSICA, Toulouse 1998. Previously, he has joined Ecole Polytechnique, ParisTech, after receiving a Master in Aerospace Engineering at the Aeronautic Faculty in Bucharest.
He has an Executive Certificate awarded by the MIT Sloan on”Management and Leadership”, 2007.
Seminar - Anke Carius: Control of photosynthetic membrane expression in the anoxygenic purple bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum
09-Sep-2013 10:00
Speaker:
Anke Carius
post-doc
Title:
Control of photosynthetic membrane expression in the anoxygenic purple bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum
Host: Göran Samuelsson
Seminar - Thomas Stanislas: Lipid composition and endocytosis in plant cell polarity
16-Sep-2013 10:00
Speaker
Thomas Stanislas
post-doc UPSC
Title: Lipid composition and endocytosis in plant cell polarity
Host: Markus Grebe
Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9
UPSC Cutting Edge Seminar - Dario Grattapaglia: Genomic selection in forest trees
23-Sep-2013 10:00
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
Half-time seminar - Ogonna Obudulu: Combine profiling in poplar, a system biology approach
30-Sep-2013 13:00
UPSC Half-time Seminar
Speaker:
Ogonna Obudulu
Title:
Combine profiling in poplar, a system biology approach
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB3A9, KBC
Seminar - Ron Pace, Australian National University – Canberra ACT, Australia
01-Oct-2013 15:00
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
Seminar - Marie-Theres Hauser, BOKU-University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
03-Oct-2013 15:00
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
Thesis Defence - Márcia Sofia Frescatada-Rosa
04-Oct-2013 10:00
Márcia Sofia
Frescatada Rosa
Plant Physiology
"Dissecting sterol function during clathrin-dependent endocytosis and cytokinesis in Arabidopsis thaliana"
Opponent:
Wolfgang Lukowitz, Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, USA
Supervisor: Markus Grebe, UPSC
Place: KB3A9 "Lilla hörsalen", KBC
Cutting Edge Seminar - Alain Goossens
06-Oct-2013 10:00
Cutting Edge Seminar
Speaker:
Alain Goossens
Title: tba
Host: Catherine Bellini
Seminar - Pitter Huesgen: Proteome TAILS - proteolysis and its functions revealed by positional proteomics
10-Oct-2013 13:00
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
Seminar - Hailiang Mao:Mechanisms underlying PEN3 membrane trafficking and outer lateral polarity formation
14-Oct-2013 10:00
Speaker:
Hailing Mao
postdoc
Title: Mechanisms underlying PEN3 membrane trafficking and outer lateral polarity formation
Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9
Host: Markus Grebe
Seminar - Nico Blanco: ...Retrograde Signalling Revisited...
21-Oct-2013 10:00
UPSC Seminar Series Fall 2013
Speaker:
Nico Blanco
postdoc
Title:
...Retrograde Signalling Revisited...
Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9
Host: Åsa Strand
Defence of Master Thesis - Jean Claude Nzayisenga
22-Oct-2013 13:00
Jean Claude Nzayisenga
Title
"Analyses of in vitro protein-protein interaction of ACT7 or ACT2 and AIP1-2 from Arabidopsis thaliana and in vivo analysis of AIP1-2 expression"
Tuesday, 22 October 13:00
Room: KBF 30
Supervisor: Markus Grebe
Thesis Defence - Joakim Bygdell: Plant biology through quantitative proteomics
25-Oct-2013 9:00
Thesis Defence
Joakim Bygdell
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology
Title:
Plant biology through quantitative proteomics
Faculty Examinar: Prof. Einar Jensen, University of Tromsø, Norway
Supervisor: Prof. Gunnar Wingsle, SLU
Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9
Seminar Azeez Abdul
28-Oct-2013 10:00
Speaker:
Azeez Abdul
postdoc
Title: tbc
Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9
Host: Rishi Bhalerao
Career outside academia seminar series: Anton Mangstl, Vice-President German Jordanian University, Former Director at FAO
30-Oct-2013 10:00
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
Half-time Seminar - Vicky Guo
04-Nov-2013 10:00 - 11:00
Half-time seminar
Speaker:
Vicky Guo
PhD
Title: tbc
Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9
Host: Benedicte Albrectsen
Seminar - Moritz Nowack: Programmed Cell Death in plant (reproductive) development
07-Nov-2013 15:15
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
Thesis Defence - Benjamin Bollhöner: Significance of hydrolytic enzymes expressed during xylem cell death
08-Nov-2013 10:00 - 13:00
UPSC - Thesis Defence
Benjamin Bollhörner
Plant Physiology
Title:
Significance of hydrolytic enzymes expressed during xylem cell death
Faculty Examiner:
Moritz Nowack, Dr, VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University
Supervisor: Hannele Tuominen
Place: Hörsal F, Humanisthuset
Seminar - Daniela Liebsch
11-Nov-2013 10:00 - 11:00
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
Seminar - Xu Jin
25-Nov-2013 10:00 - 11:00
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
Carreer outside academia - Workshop: Soft skills: how to recognize and advertise them
27-Nov-2013 16:00 - 17:00
Career Outside Academia Seminar
Victoria Sörensson
Mats Reinhold
Soft skills: how to recognize and advertise them (workshop)
Place: KB3A9 Lilla hörsalen
Host: Delphine Gendre
Docentföreläsning - Maria Eriksson
28-Nov-2013 14:15
Maria Eriksson, Department of Plant Physiology
Title: Regulation of growth and development – it's about time!
Host: Göran Samuelsson
Time: Thursday, 28 November, 14.15
Place: KB3A9 "Lilla hörsalen", KBC
Seminar by Jack Saddler - The potential of biofuels and the need for a biorefinery approach
28-Nov-2013 15:15 - 17:15
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