Events under 'Seminar'

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

Please note in Carl Kempe Salen

9:00 Hemamshu Ratnakaram

Title: The Role of the Cuticle in Apical Hook Development

Supervisor: Stéphanie Robert

9:30 Julie Guerreiro

Title: H+ drives ultra-fast root-to-root responses to wounding

Supervisor: Peter Marhavý


Place: Carl Kempe hörsalen KB.E3.03
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:30 Klaudia Ordyniak

Title: Role of ZAT11 and ZAT18 in maintaining cell wall integrity in response to environmental stress

Supervisor: Laura Bacete


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:30-10:00

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar

Jenny Russinova
Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.
Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.
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Title: Brassinosteroids in Transit: The Role of Short-Distance Transport in Maintaining Brassinosteroid Homeostasis
Abstract:
Brassinosteroids are steroidal phytohormones essential for plant growth, development, and adaptation to environmental stresses. Acting in a dose-dependent manner, they do not move over long distances within plants, making the maintenance of brassinosteroid homeostasis crucial for their function. In roots, bioactive brassinosteroid synthesis depends on cell-to-cell movement of hormone precursors, while brassinosteroid perception in the apoplast requires their export from the cell. However, the mechanisms governing short-distance brassinosteroid transport remain unknown, and its role in regulating endogenous brassinosteroid levels is still unexplored.
In this presentation, I will provide evidence for the symplastic movement of brassinosteroids and their active export to the apoplast, where they initiate signalling. Our work reveals a previously unrecognized mode of steroid transport in eukaryotes and highlights an additional layer of brassinosteroid homeostasis regulation in plants, which is vital for brassinosteroid function.

Host: Peter Marhavý

UPSC technical seminar (UPSCtech)

The speaker will be Loïc Talide who will talk about:

A versatile gas exchange system: from 13C labelling to custom atmospheric compositions.

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.

Contact:
Laura García Romañach This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Lucija Lisica This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

The last UPSC Monday Seminar of 2024

9:00 Siamsa Doyle

Title: A MYB transcription factor regulates pavement cell shape in aspen leaves.

Supervisor: Stéphanie Robert

9:30 Lovely Mahawar

Title: Can Straw Mulching Enhance Potato Growth and Development by Enriching Microbial Communities?

Supervisor: Benedicte Albrectsen


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

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

3rd UPSC Christmas Lecture

13.30: How plants, algae and cyanobacteria make the oxygen we breathe
Johannes Messinger, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University

14.15: Understanding apical hook development with chemical biology
Stéphanie Robert, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU

15.00: Christmas fika with "pepparkakor" and "glögg" in the UPSC lunchroom

 

UPSC Seminar: Olivier van Aken

Olivier van Aken

Senior lecturer at Molecular Biosciences, University of Lund.

Title: Unravelling mechanosensitive signalling in plants

Host: Markus Schmid

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2025

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Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
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Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2025

9:00 Shi-Wei Zhao

Title: Haplotype-resolved genome assembly and allele-specific gene expression in T89

Supervisor: Jian-Feng Mao

9:30 Ioannis Theodorou

Title: Mechanical signals in plant cell fate

Supervisor: Stéphane Verger


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

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2025

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Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
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Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar: Stéphanie Arrivault

Stéphanie Arrivault

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology (MPIMP), Potsdam, Germany

Title: Following the path of carbon in plants

Host: Totte Niittylä

UPSC Seminar: Christian Hardtke

Christian Hardtke

Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Title: The phloem nexus of root growth

Host: Petra Marhava

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2025

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Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
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Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2025

Please note that the seminar will start at 09:30.

9:30 Anne Braunroth

Title: Effects of root exudates on soil nitrogen in the boreal forest

Supervisor: Sandra Jämtgård


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:30-10:00

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC PhD Student Halftime Seminar Day

Will be updated with schedule in the beginning of January.

Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU

09:00 Edward Carlsson (SLU)
Title: Genomic selection across one generation of Norway Spruce
External evaluator: Rosario García Gil, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU, Umeå
Supervisor: Harry Xiaming Wu

10:00 Lucija Lisica (SLU)
Title: Unraveling the contribution  of mechanosensing to cell-cell adhesion in plants.
External evaluator: Charles Melnyk, Department of Plant Biology, SLU, Uppsala
Supervisor: Stéphane Verger

11:00 Laura García Romañach (SLU)
Title: Flowering time in trees: The role of the miR156-SPL pathway.
External evaluator: Markus Schmid, Department of Plant Biology, SLU, Uppsala
Supervisor: Ove Nilsson

Contact:
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU: Hannele Tuominen
Department of Plant Physiology, UmU: Stefan Jansson

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2025

9:00 Vasilina Akulova

Title: Genetic and environmental contributions to growth habit in Mugo Pine

Supervisor: Kelly Swarts

9:30 Ioannis Theodorou

Title: Mechanical signals in plant cell fate

Supervisor: Stéphane Verger

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

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2025

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Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
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Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar: Michael Palmgren

Michael Palmgren

Professor at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Title: De novo domestication of wild plants – perspectives and challenges

Host: Stephan Wenkel and Stefan Jansson

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2025

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Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
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Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

Seminar series "Outside of Academia"

Title: Working in Umeå - Region Västerbotten

Do you want to know which career paths are waiting for you outside of academia?

Speakers: Katja Stojkovič, Denise Rawcliffe, Domenique André and Romain Castilleux from Region Västerbotten.

More details will come closer to the event

 

Katja Stojkovič is a bioinformatician working for Region Västerbotten. Before leaving academia, Katja finished her PhD at the biotechnical faculty at the University of Ljubljana and continued her academic career as a Postdoc at UPSC. Denise Rawcliffe is an adjunct clinical laboratory geneticist for Region Västerbotten. Denise finished her PhD at Umeå University and worked as a Postdoc before joining Region Vesterbotten. Domenique André and Romain Castilleux are molecular biologists for Region Västerbotten. Domenique's and Romain's background is in plant science, and before switching to the industry, Domenique finished her PhD at UPSC. Romain received his PhD at the Université de Rouen Normandie and worked as a Postdoc at UPSC.  

You will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in a networking lunch afterwards.

Please register at the latest on 05.02.2025 using the following link: https://forms.gle/yQDjyR7jvz7fPYy28

The seminar will take place in room KB.J3.01 (below lunch room) (room finder: https://link.mazemap.com/ePaQPqp7)

Contact:

For questions, please contact the organisers Laura Tünnermann (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Tinkara Bizjak (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2025

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Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
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Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2025

9:00 Andreas Schneider

Title: Microbial short-term response to carbon and nitrogen supply

Supervisor: Sandra Jämtgård

9:30 Subash Reddy Gaddam

Title: How do cytokinin control adventitious root development?

Supervisor: Catherine Bellini


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

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2025

9:30 Leonor Ramirez

Title: What can we learn about GUN1 and retrograde signaling in angiosperms from conifers?

Supervisor: Åsa Strand


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:30-10:00

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC technical seminar (UPSCtech)

The speaker will be Siamsa Doyle who will talk about:

InsituPro VSi: an automated pipetting robot for immunolabelling, in situ hybridization and de/rehydration series

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.

Contacts: Lucija Lisica (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Laura García Romañach (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

UPSC Seminar: Richard Immink

Richard Immink

Professor at Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlands

Title: Flowering time and seed quality control: Two sides of the same 'PEBP-coin'?

Host: Johannes Hanson

UPSC Seminar: Matt Johnson

Matt Johnson

Professor at University of Sheffield, UK. 

Title: Using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to rewire photosynthetic electron transfer

Host: Stefan Jansson

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2025


9:30 Sarah Mermet

Title: The link between transcription and chromatin in cold

Supervisor: Peter Kindgren


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

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

Seminar series "Outside of Academia"

Title: Working for RISE (Research Institute of Sweden)

Speaker: Jenny Veide Vilg

Jenny Veide Vilg is working as a Unit Manager for Process Engineering, Security, and Hygiene at the RISE Research Institute of Sweden. Before leaving academia, Jenny finished her PhD at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg with a focus on biotechnology, microbiology, and food science. After her PhD, she continued her academic career as a Postdoc at the University of Gothenburg and as a researcher and project manager at the Chalmers University of Technology. Jenny worked as a project leader at a grants office before she moved on as a unit manager at RISE.

Location: Vitis, UPSC (meet us by the main UPSC entrance at 10:25 if you do not have access to UPSC)

You will have the opportunity to ask questions after the presentation.

Contact:

For questions, please contact the organisers Laura Tünnermann (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Tinkara Bizjak-Johansson (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2025

9:30 Kumar Seerangan

Title: Starch turnover in leaves increases the CO₂ assimilation capacity of aspen

Supervisor: Totte Niittylä


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:30-10:00

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2025


9:30 Adrien Heymans

Title: Exploring epidermal mechanics in Arabidopsis hypocotyl with FEM: insight on stress/strain, adhesion, and growth

Supervisor: Stéphanie Robert, Stéphane Verger


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:30-10:00

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel