Events under 'Seminar'

UPSC Seminar

Dorota Kwiatkowska
Institute of Biology, Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

Title: Heterogeneous growth of leaf epidermis: from subcellular to tissue scale

Host: Stéphane Verger

UPSC Wednesday Seminar series 2025

15:00 Ahsan Rizvi

Title: Bioinformatics of miRNA dynamics of Norway Spruce

Supervisor: Ulrika Egertsdotter

15:30 Alexis Brun

Title: ChIP-MS a new method for plant biology to identify proteins linked to histone post-translational modifications

Supervisor: Åsa Strand


Place: UPSC Lunch room
Time: 15:00-16:00

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar

Ari-Pekka Mähönen
Vikki Plant Science Centre (ViPS), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Title: Stem cells of the vascular cambium: where a receptor captures its ligand

Host: Hannele Tuominen

UPSC Wednesday Seminar series 2025

15:00 Dhriti Singh

Title: Ribosomal Heterogeneity: A New Layer of Translational Regulation

Supervisor: Johannes Hanson



Place: UPSC Lunch room
Time: 15:00-16:00

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Omid Karami

Molecular Biology Department, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Germany

Title:The Mystery of Auxin in Plant Regeneration

Host: Ove Nilsson

UPSC Seminar

Jean-Christophe Palauqui
Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin (IJPB), Versailles, France

Title: Studying and predicting cell division plane positioning in Arabidopsis embryo

Host: Stéphane Verger

UPSC Seminar

Abdul Kareem Valiya Kadavu

Department of Plant Biology, Linnean Center for Plant Biology, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden

Title: How plants regenerate: Molecular mechanisms, fate decisions, and lessons for plant development

Host: Ove Nilsson

UPSC Wednesday Seminar series 2025

15:00 Thomas Wieloch

Title: Developing robust indicators of forest ecosystem health and resilience

Supervisor: Totte Niittylä

15:30 Naveen Shankar Alanga

Title: MicroProteins in the cold: All roads lead to SVP

Supervisor: Stephan Wenkel


Place: UPSC Lunch room
Time: 15:00-16:00

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC technical seminar (UPSCtech)

The speaker will be Jamie McCann who will talk about:

Deploying web applications to the Swedish Science Cloud.

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 Wednesday Seminar series 2025

15:00 Giacomo Matera

Title: Timing Matters: Achieving CONSTA-ntly Timed Flowering through microProteins

Supervisor: Stephan Wenkel


Place: UPSC Lunch room
Time: 15:00-16:00

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Wanfeng Li
State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China

Title: Time regulation of larch life-cycle progression

Host: Jian-Feng Mao

UPSC Wednesday Seminar series 2025

15:00 Jeky Chanwala

Title: Genomic Architecture and Functional Insights into Antisense Transcription

Supervisor: Peter Kindgren

15:30 Sara Häggström

Title: 409 Conflict: Bioinformatic Predictions vs. Wet-Lab Reality

Supervisor: Johannes Hanson


Place: UPSC Lunch room
Time: 15:00-16:00

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Kristiina Mäkinen
Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland

Title: Synthetic biological solutions for virus resistance in potato

For more information about Kristiina Mäkinen: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/kristiina-m%C3%A4kinen/

Host: Benedicte Albrectsen

UPSC Christmas lecture 2025

13.30: Sustainable Forestry: From a geneticist’s perspective
María Rosario García Gil, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU

14.15: tba
Olivier Keech, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University

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

UPSC Seminar

Andrea Polle
University of Göttingen, Germany

Title: Ectomycorrhizal fungal-plant communication: consequences for plant stress resistance

More information about Andrea Polle: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/58018.html

Host: Hannele Tuominen

UPSC Monday Seminar series 2026

15:00 tba

Title: tba

Supervisor: tba

15:30 Chen-Jui Yang

Title: How Recombination Varies Along Genes in Pine and Spruce

Supervisor: Harry Wu


Place: KB.E3.01 Lilla Hörsalen
Time: 15:00-16:00

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Germán Martinez-Arias
Department of Plant Biology, SLU, Uppsala

Title: Canonical and non-canonical RNA silencing during plant reproduction

Host: Stephan Wenkel

UPSC PhD Student Halftime Seminar Day

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

09:00 Anne van Humbeeck (UMU)
Title: LITTLE TWEEZERS: microProteins regulating plant reproduction
External evaluator: Germán Martinez-Arias (Department of Plant Biology, SLU, Uppsala)
Supervisor: Stephan Wenkel

10:00 Annica Nordström (SLU)
Title: tba
External evaluator: tba
Supervisor: María Rosario García Gil

11:00 Jarl Kjellström (SLU)
Title: tba
External evaluator: Colin Ruprecht (Institute of Organic Chemistry, BOKU University, Vienna, Austria)
Supervisor: Totte Niittylä

12:00-13:00 Lunch break

13:00 Hemamshu Ratnakaram (SLU)
Title:The Plant Cuticle Regulates Apical Hook Morphogenesis via ROS
External evaluator: Edwige Moyroud (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK)
Supervisor: Stéphanie Robert

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

UPSC Seminar

Edwige Moyroud
Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK

Title: One size fits all? Understanding the development & evolution of petal patterning using Hibiscus as a model system

More information about the speaker here: https://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/people/edwige-moyroud

Host: Stéphanie Robert

UPSC Seminar

Colin Ruprecht
Institute of Organic Chemistry, BOKU University, Vienna, Austria

Title: tba

Host: Totte Niittylä

UPSC Monday Seminar series 2026

15:00 tba

Title: tba

Supervisor: tba

15:30 tba

Title: tba

Supervisor: tba


Place: KB.E3.01 Lilla Hörsalen
Time: 15:00-16:00

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC technical seminar (UPSCtech)

The speaker will be Mengrou Li who will talk about:

Growth Through Conflicts: Understanding Causes and Building Effective Solutions

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: Isabell Rosenkranz (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 Monday Seminar series 2026

15:00 Shandry Tebele

Title: In situ microscopic method development for visualizing the rhizosphere of pine seedlings

Supervisor: Sandra Jämtgård

15:30 Chen Hu

Title: Developmental variations in state transitions shape canopy photoregulation in trees

Supervisor: Stefan Jansson


Place: KB.E3.01 Lilla Hörsalen
Time: 15:00-16:00

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Marek Mutwil
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Title: tba

Host: Nathaniel Street

UPSC Monday Seminar series 2026

15:00 tba

Title: tba

Supervisor: tba

15:30 tba

Title: tba

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Place: KB.E3.01 Lilla Hörsalen
Time: 15:00-16:00

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminar series 2026

15:00 tba

Title: tba

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15:30 tba

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Place: KB.E3.01 Lilla Hörsalen
Time: 15:00-16:00

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminar series 2026

15:00 tba

Title: tba

Supervisor: tba

15:30 tba

Title: tba

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Place: KB.E3.01 Lilla Hörsalen
Time: 15:00-16:00

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminar series 2026

15:00 tba

Title: tba

Supervisor: tba

15:30 tba

Title: tba

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Place: KB.E3.01 Lilla Hörsalen
Time: 15:00-16:00

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminar series 2026

15:00 tba

Title: tba

Supervisor: tba

15:30 tba

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Place: KB.E3.01 Lilla Hörsalen
Time: 15:00-16:00

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminar series 2026

15:00 tba

Title: tba

Supervisor: tba

15:30 tba

Title: tba

Supervisor: tba


Place: KB.E3.01 Lilla Hörsalen
Time: 15:00-16:00

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel