UPSC PhD Student Halftime Seminar 2026

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Date:
Thursday, January 15, 2026 9:00 - 14:30
Duration:
5 Hours, 30 Minutes
Categories:
Seminar
Location:
KB.E3.03 Carl Kempe salen
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UPSC PhD Student Halftime Seminar Day

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

09:00 Jarl Kjellström (SLU)
Title: Exploring the link between protein glycosylation and cellulose biosynthesis: A sugar sweet mystery
External evaluator: Colin Ruprecht (Institute of Organic Chemistry, BOKU University, Vienna, Austria)
Supervisor: Totte Niittylä

10:00 Annica Nordström (SLU)
Title: Landscape Breeding: A cost- and time- effective tool to accelerate tree selection and guide deployment
External evaluator: Nathaniel Street (Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University)
Supervisor: María Rosario García Gil

11:00 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

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