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Half-time Seminar - Kristoffer Jonsson
26-May-2014 10:00 - 11:00
Half-time Seminar
Speaker:
Kristoffer Jonsson
Room: KB3B1
UPSC symposium for young plant scientists
02-Jun-2014 9:00 - 12:00
9.00-9.15: welcome, introduction
9-15-9-45: Envel Kerdaffrec,GMI Vienna, Austria
“Seed dormancy, Sweden and local adaptation”
9.45-10-15: Sunita Kushwah, National Institute for Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi, India
“The interaction between glucose and cytokinin signal transduction pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana”
10-15-10.45: Simon Law, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology at the University of Western Australia, Australia
“Characterisation of mitochondrial biogenesis during seed germination in Arabidopsis thaliana”
10.45-11.15: Julia Wind, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden
"The role of the transcription factors ABI3, ABI4 and ANAC089 in seed maturation and germination”
11.15-11.45: Lin Xu, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology at the University of Western Australia, Australia
“An evolutionary perspective of dual-targeted proteins in plants”
Contact: Stephanie Robert and Totte Niitylä, Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology
Room : Stora hörsalen KB3B1, KBC
Dissertation - Christine Ratke
04-Jun-2014 10:00 - 12:00
Place: Björken SLU
Time: Jun 4 10.00
Welcome
Seminar: Carl Douglas - Genomic analysis of range-wide collections of Populus trichocarpa and P. balsamifera: connecting phenotype and genotype
12-Jun-2014 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker:
Carl Douglas
University of British Columbia
Department of Botany
Title:
Genomic analysis of range-wide collections of Populus trichocarpa and P. balsamifera: connecting phenotype and genotype
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB3A9
Host Björn Sundberg
Lic-seminar - Fredrik From
13-Jun-2014 10:00 - 12:00
Time: 10.00
Titel: Long-Term Effects of Nitrogen (N) Fertilizer and Simulated N Deposition on Boreal Forest Growth
Dissertation - David Öhman
13-Jun-2014 13:00 - 16:00
Title: Function of MAP20 and MYB103 in Cellulose and Lignin Formation of Xylem Secondary Cell Walls
Time and Place: 2014-06-13 13:00, Umeå, P-O Bäckströms sal SLU Umeå
Respondent: MSc David Öhman, Institutionen för skoglig genetik och växtfysiologi
Opponent: Professor Carl Douglas, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Post-doc Seminar - Marc Rühl: The role of EARLY BIRD in the circadian clock of Arabidopsis thaliana
16-Jun-2014 10:00 - 11:00
Post-doc Seminar
Speaker:
Marc Rühl
Title:
The role of EARLY BIRD in the circadian clock of Arabidopsis thaliana
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB3A9
Master Thesis Defence: Guillermo Bañares de Dios
23-Jun-2014 10:00 - 11:00
Guillermo Bañares de Dios
Title:
Eluidating the role of CSK during early light response and chloroplast development
Supervisor: Åsa Strand
place: KB4C10 (lecture room)
Master thesis seminar - Bastian Schiffthaler
23-Jun-2014 14:00 - 16:00
Time and Place: June 23rd, 14:00 in KBF30
Conference: Lignin 2014 – biosynthesis and utilization: 24-28 August 2014, Umeå
24-Aug-2014 9:00 - 28-Aug-2014 18:00
conference “Lignin 2014 – biosynthesis and utilization”
that will be held in
Umeå 24-28 of August 2014.
The conference aims to strengthen our knowledge on the various aspects of lignin biosynthesis and utilization, from the basic cell biology, molecular biology to pre-treatment of plant biomass and utilization of lignin.
Further information will be announced continuously under www.lignin2014.se
Master Thesis Defence: Domenique André
16-Sep-2014 15:00 - 16:00
Master Thesis Defence
Speaker:
Domenique André
Title:
The Role of The Populus FT Genes in the Regulation of Tree Phenology
Supervisor: Ove Nilsson
Room KBF30
Cutting Edge Seminar - Tom Beeckman
22-Sep-2014 10:00 - 11:00
UPSC Seminar Series 2014
Cutting Edge Seminar
Speaker:
Tom Beeckman
VIB, Department of Plant Systems Biology, University of Ghent, Belgiium
Title:
Root architecture steered by the root cap
Host: Stephanie Robért
Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9
Seminar - Dr Eung-Jun Park
26-Sep-2014 14:00 - 15:00
Dr. Park will present an introduction to the activities of KFRI, overview a new Korean Forest Resources Genome Project (in which UPSC is a collaborator) and current work focusing on metabolome-assisted early selection for fast-growing traits in Pinus densiflora.
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eung_Jun_Park target
Place: Friday 26th at 14:00 in KB4C10
Cutting edge seminar - Alain Goossens
06-Oct-2014 10:00 - 11:00
UPSC Cutting Edge Seminar
Title:
Jasmonates and biosynthesis of defines metabolites, can we break the multiple feedback loops?
Speaker:
Alain Goossens
VIB, Department of Plant Systems Biology, University of Ghent, Belgiium
Host: Catherine Bellini
Time and Place: Monday October 6th - 10:00-11:00.
Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9
Masters Thesis Presentation - Marcus Andersson
07-Oct-2014 15:15 - 16:15
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU
Marcus Andersson
Title:
Subcellular Localization of a Neutral Invertase from hybrid Aspen (Populus tremula x tremuloides)
Supervisor: Totte Niittylä
Place: KBF30
Thesis defence - Christian Kiefer: Characterisation of actin cytoskeletal functions and interactions during planar polarity formation in Arabidopsis
10-Oct-2014 10:00 - 12:00
Department of Plant Physiology
Thesis Defence
Christian Kiefer
Title:
Characterisation of actin cytoskeletal functions and interactions during planar polarity formation in Arabidopsis
Faculty Examiner:
Dr Tijs Ketelaar, Universitair docent, Laboratory of Cell Biologogy, Wageningnen University, the Netherlands.
Supervisor:
Markus Grebe
Place: Room BiA201, Biologihuset
Seminar - Terkel Hansen: My bioanalytic research in Tromsø - present and future
15-Oct-2014 10:00 - 11:00
UPSC Seminars 2014 presents
Speaker:
Terkel Hansen
University of Tromsø
The Arctic University of Norway
My bioanalytic research in Tromsø
- present and future
Place: KB3A9, Lilla hörsalen, KBC
Hosts: Gunnar Wingsle / Thomas Moritz
Seminar - Kamel Hammani: Mode of action of PPR proteins in plant organellar gene expression
28-Oct-2014 10:15 - 11:15
Speaker:
Kamel Hammani
CNRS-UPR2357
Institute de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes
Strasbourg, France
Title:
Mode of action of PPR proteins in plant organellar gene expression
Place: KB3A9 Lilla hörsalen
Hosts: Åsa Strand and Olivier Keech
Seminar - Frank and Elin Götmark: Why produce multiple woody stems? Hypotheses and models for the adaptive significance of the shrub growth form
29-Oct-2014 13:00 - 14:00
Seminar
Seminar by Frank & Elin Götmark
University of Gothenburg
Title:
Why produce multiple woody stems? Hypotheses and models for the adaptive significance of the shrub growth form
Place: Lecture room Aspen, SLU
Host: Lars Edenius, SLU
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Abstract:
Trees are tall woody plants with a single self-supporting woody stem, branching well above ground level, while shrubs are shorter woody plants with multiple self-supporting woody stems, branching at ground level. Shrubs occur in as many plant families as trees, and may have evolved before trees. Shrubs occur in 9 of 11 global biomes according to one classification; in another classification of terrestrial global biomes, shrubs occur 13 of 14 biomes. Shrubs grow in forests, but are also common in many regions and habitats that lack trees. Thus, shrubs are more widespread than trees, and important for many ecosystem functions. Surprisingly, we have not found any detailed analysis of factors that may have selected for the shrub growth form. We will present nine hypothesis, two supported by models, to explain the adaptive significance of shrubs.
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Frank Götmark is a professor in Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology at Gothenburg University.
His research interests covers:
Ecology and conservation of forest ecosystems, temperate zones
Broadleaved forests and management for biodiversity and biofuel
Oak (Quercus spp.) ecology: regeneration and stand management
Nature reserve systems and conservation policy
Anti-predator adaptations and predation by birds of prey
The less known biodiversity: molluscs, insects, cryptogams (collaboration with other researchers)
For more information about Frank, see: http://bioenv.gu.se/english/staff/Gotmark_Frank/ee
Elin Götmark is a senior lecturer at the department of Mathematical Sciences at Gothenburg University, and her research focuses at complex analysis and partial differential equations.
Welcome!
Lars Edenius
UPSC Seminar - Rossana Henriques: From genome dark matter to biological regulation: uncovering long non-coding RNA function in plants
10-Nov-2014 10:00 - 11:00
UPSC Seminar:
Speaker:
Rossana Henriques
Career Track Fellow
Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica (CRAG)
Edifici CRAG, Campus UAB
Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallés)
Barcelona
Title:
From genome dark matter to biological regulation: uncovering long non-coding RNA function in plants
Host
Laszlo Bako
Place Lilla hörsalen KB3A9
Seminar - Claudio Stasolla: In vitro plant embryogenesis: improving embryo yield
13-Nov-2014 15:00 - 16:00
UPSC Seminar
Sepaker:
Claudio Stasolla
Dept. Plant Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Title:
In vitro plant embryogenesis: improving embryo yield
Place: KB3A9, Lilla hörsalen
Host: Ulrika Egertsdotter
Plant embryogenesis is an essential phase of the plant life cycle and formation of embryos can be stimulated in vitro through the careful selection of media components and environmental conditions. Work in my lab has recently been focussed on the function of plant hemoglobins (Hbs) during somatic embryogenesis in dicots and monocots. First described in animals, Hbs have now been identified in a variety of organisms including plants where their major function is to scavenge cellular nitric oxide (NO). Suppression of the Arabidopsis class 2 Hb (Hb2) enhances the formation of somatic embryos through the NO-mediated suppression of the transcription factor MYC2. Repression of MYC2 increases IAA accumulation at the sites of embryogenic tissue formation, and favors the formation of Arabidopsis somatic embryos. In maize the two Hbs: ZmHb1 and ZmHb2 regulate the cell survival/death decision that influences somatic embryogenesis through their cell-specific localization patterns. Suppression of either of the two ZmHbs is sufficient to induce PCD through a pathway initiated by elevated nitric oxide (NO) and zinc (Zn2+) levels, and mediated by production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). The effect of the death program on the fate of the developing embryos is dependent upon the localization patterns of the two ZmHbs. During somatic embryogenesis, ZmHb2 transcripts are restricted to a few cells anchoring the embryos to the subtending embryogenic tissue, while ZmHb1 transcripts extend to several embryonic domains. Suppression of ZmHb2 induces PCD in the anchoring cells allowing the embryos to develop further, while suppression of ZmHb1 results in massive PCD leading to abortion. It is concluded that regulation of the expression of these ZmHbs has the capability to determine the developmental fate of the embryogenic tissue during somatic embryogenesis through their effect on PCD. These studies place Hbs as central regulators of in vitro embryogenesis
PhD Thesis Defence - Edward Businge: Regulation of Metabolic Events during Embryo Development in Norway Spruce (Picea abies L. Karst)
14-Nov-2014 10:00 - 13:00
PhD Thesis Defence
Regulation of Metabolic Events during Embryo Development in Norway Spruce (Picea abies L. Karst)
Edward Businge
Department of Forest Genetics & Plant Physiology
Faculty Examiner: Dr. Claudio Stasolla, Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Supervisor: Ulrika Egertsdotter
Room: P-O Bäckströms sal SLU Umeå
UPSC Seminar - Carole Dubreuil: Elucidating the mechanisms involved in chloroplast biogenesis by using an Arabidopsis cell culture system
17-Nov-2014 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker:
Carole Dubreuil
Post-doc
Title:
Elucidating the mechanisms involved in chloroplast biogenesis by using an Arabidopsis cell culture system
Host Åsa Strand
Cutting Edge Seminar - Sabrina Sabatini:New insight in root meristem size determination and root zonation
24-Nov-2014 10:00 - 11:00
UPSC Seminar Series 2014
Cutting Edge Seminar
Speaker:
Sabrina Sabatini
Università degli di Roma "La Sapienza"
Rome, Italy
Title: New insight in root meristem size determination and root zonation
Host: Karin Ljung
Place Lilla hörsalen KB3A9
Abstract:
Understanding the molecular mechanisms through which plant meristems are maintained is a central question in developmental biology. In the root of Arabidopsis thaliana, stem cells in the apical region of the meristem self-renew and produce daughter cells that differentiate in the distal meristem transition zone. To ensure root growth, the rate of cell differentiation must equal the rate of generation of new cells. Cell differentiation takes place in the transition zone that is localized in the distal part of the root meristem, but must be synchronized and balanced with division of the stem cells that are localized in the apical part of the meristem. We have previously shown that maintenance of the Arabidopsis root meristem size - and consequently root growth - is controlled by the interaction between two hormones at the meristem transition zone: cytokinins, which promote cell differentiation, and auxin, which promotes cell division.
New data will be presented on the molecular mechanism by which cytokinin induce cell differentiation influencing auxin distribution and, as a consequence, root zonation