The UPSC Day 2025 will cover scientific updates from UPSC and a workshop about Artificial Intelligence (illustration generated by Thomas Dobrenel with some inspiration from ChatGPT)
Welcome to the UPSC Day 2025!
It will take place on September 3 at Hotel Mimer in Umeå
We are very excited to invite you for the UPSC Day 2025! Everyone working at UPSC (including students) as well as the group members of our associated groups are invited to join us.
In the morning, we will focus on cutting edge research at UPSC and highlight new initiatives. The afternoon will be dedicated on getting to know more about Artificial Intelligence. Beside talks, we might have an extended poster session during the coffee breaks.
The symposium is free of charge but registration is required.
The registration is now closed.
For questions, please contact Thomas Dobrenel (
Programme
Location: Hotel Mimer, downtown Umeå (link to Google Maps)
08:30 - 08:50: Registration and hanging posters
Scientific session
Chair: Johannes Hanson
08:50 - 09:00: Ove Nilsson (Director of UPSC), Johannes Hanson (Head of the Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University) and Totte Niittylä (Head of the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU)
Welcome and updates about UPSC
09:00 - 09:15: Ove Nilsson (Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU)
Wallenberg Initiatives in Forest Research (WIFORCE)
09:15 - 09:30: Sandra Jämtgård (Department of Forest Ecology and Management, SLU)
The research program Future Silviculture, part of WIFORCE
09:30 - 10:00: Coffee break
Chair: Totte Niittylä
10:00 - 10:15: Olivier Keech (Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University)
Towards Integrated Multi-Trophic Farming (IMTF)
10:15 - 10:30: Susan McEvoy (Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki)
Using computational genomics to advance understanding of conifer evolution and adaptation and support forest management and conservation
10:30 - 10:50: Laughing session
10:50 - 11:05: Juan Alonso Serra (Center of Excellence in Tree Biology, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Helsinki)
Introducing the Meristem Hydraulics Group
11:05 - 11:20: Leonard Blaschek (Copenhagen Plant Science Center (CPSC), Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen)
Redundancy and Specificity in Wood Formation
11:30 - 12:30: Lunch break
Artificial Intelligence Workshop
Chair: Nicolas Delhomme
Matthew Low, Department of Ecology, SLU Uppsala
Detailed programme of the workshop will come later
12:30 - 14:30: AI workshop part 1
14:30 - 14:45: Coffee break
14:45 - 16:00: AI workshop part 2
16:00 - 16:30: Coffee break
Chair: Ove Nilsson
16:30 - 16:45: Laura Bacete (Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University)
16:45 - 16:55: Nathaniel Street (Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University)
New Master’s programme in bioinformatics at Umeå University
17:00 - 19:00: Discussions in groups
19:30: Dinner