Events under 'Seminar'
UPSC Seminar: Dorota Kwiatkowska
Thursday, October 02, 2025 14:00 - 15:00
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 2025
Wednesday, October 08, 2025 15:00 - 16:00
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
Friday, October 10, 2025 9:00 - 10:00
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 2025
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 15:00 - 16:00
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
Friday, October 24, 2025 14:00 - 15:00
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
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 14:00 - 15:00
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
Friday, November 07, 2025 9:00 - 10:00
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 2025
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 15:00 - 16:00
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
UPSCtech Seminar: Deploying web applications to the Swedish Science Cloud
Tuesday, November 25, 2025 14:00 - 15:30
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 (
UPSC Wednesday Seminar 2025
Wednesday, November 26, 2025 15:00 - 16:00
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
Friday, November 28, 2025 14:00 - 15:00
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 2025
Wednesday, December 03, 2025 15:00 - 16:00
15:00 tba
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15:30 tba
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Place: UPSC Lunch room
Time: 15:00-16:00
Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel
UPSC Wednesday Seminar 2025
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 15:00 - 16:00
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15:30 tba
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Place: UPSC Lunch room
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Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel
UPSC Seminar: Kristiina Mäkinen
Thursday, December 11, 2025 13:00 - 14:00
Kristiina Mäkinen
Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
Title: Synthetic biological solutions for virus resistance in potato
Host: Benedicte Albrectsen
UPSC Christmas lecture 2025
Friday, December 12, 2025 13:30 - 15:00
UPSC Christmas lecture 2025
13.30: tba
Olivier Keech, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University
14.15: tba
María Rosario García Gil, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU
15.00: Christmas fika with "pepparkakor" and "glögg" in the UPSC lunchroom
UPSC Seminar: Andrea Polle
Tuesday, December 16, 2025 9:00 - 10:00
Andrea Polle
University of Göttingen, Germany
Title: Ectomycorrhizal fungal-plant communication: consequences for plant stress resistance
Host: Hannele Tuominen
UPSC Wednesday Seminar 2025
Wednesday, January 14, 2026 15:00 - 16:00
15:00 tba
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15:30 tba
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Place: UPSC Lunch room
Time: 15:00-16:00
Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel
UPSC PhD Student Halftime Seminar 2026
Thursday, January 15, 2026 9:00 - 14:30
UPSC PhD Student Halftime Seminar Day
Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå UniversityDepartment of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU
09:00 Anne van Humbeeck (UMU)
Title: tba
External evaluator: tba
Supervisor: Stephan Wenkel
10:00 Annica Nordström (SLU)
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External evaluator: tba
Supervisor: María Rosario García Gil
11:00 Jarl Kjellström (SLU)
Title: tba
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Supervisor: Totte Niittylä
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
13:00 Hemamshu Ratnakaram (SLU)
Title: tba
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
Friday, January 16, 2026 9:00 - 10:00
Edwige Moyroud
Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
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Host: Stéphanie Robert
UPSC Wednesday Seminar 2025
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 15:00 - 16:00
15:00 tba
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15:30 tba
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Place: UPSC Lunch room
Time: 15:00-16:00
Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel
UPSC Wednesday Seminar 2025
Wednesday, January 28, 2026 15:00 - 16:00
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15:30 tba
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Place: UPSC Lunch room
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Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel
UPSC Wednesday Seminar 2025
Wednesday, February 04, 2026 15:00 - 16:00
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15:30 tba
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Place: UPSC Lunch room
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Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel
UPSC Wednesday Seminar 2025
Wednesday, February 11, 2026 15:00 - 16:00
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15:30 tba
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Place: UPSC Lunch room
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Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel
UPSC Wednesday Seminar 2025
Wednesday, February 18, 2026 15:00 - 16:00
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Place: UPSC Lunch room
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Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel
UPSC Wednesday Seminar 2025
Wednesday, February 25, 2026 15:00 - 16:00
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15:30 tba
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Place: UPSC Lunch room
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Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel
UPSC Wednesday Seminar 2025
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 15:00 - 16:00
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Place: UPSC Lunch room
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Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel
UPSC Wednesday Seminar 2025
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 15:00 - 16:00
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15:30 tba
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Place: UPSC Lunch room
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Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel
UPSC Wednesday Seminar 2025
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 15:00 - 16:00
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15:30 tba
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Place: UPSC Lunch room
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Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel
UPSC Wednesday Seminar 2025
Wednesday, April 01, 2026 15:00 - 16:00
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15:30 tba
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Place: UPSC Lunch room
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Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel
UPSC Wednesday Seminar 2025
Wednesday, April 08, 2026 15:00 - 16:00
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15:30 tba
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Place: UPSC Lunch room
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Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel