PhD Thesis Defence
Tinkara Bizjak-Johansson
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology (SLU)
Title: Some aspects on boreal forest microbiotas and nitrogen
Faculty opponent: A. Carolin Frank, Environmental Sciences group, University of California, Merced, USA
Supervisor: Annika Nordin
PhD Thesis Defence
Özer Erguvan
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology (SLU)
Title: Ultrastructural and molecular basis of cell-cell adhesion in plants
Faculty opponent: Dorota Kwiatkowska, Institute of Biology, Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
Supervisor: Stéphane Verger
PhD Thesis Defence
Tuuli Aro
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology (SLU)
Title: Colder in a warming world - Global warming challenges low temperature resilience of boreal trees
Faculty opponent: Majken Pagter, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Denmark
Supervisor: Vaughan Hurry
PhD Thesis Defence
Laura Tünnermann
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology (SLU)
Title: Organic nitrogen – molecular regulation of uptake and physiological implications
Faculty opponent: Andreas Weber, Department of Plant Biochemistry, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
Supervisor: Torgny Näsholm
PhD Thesis Defence
Léa Bogdziewiez
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology (SLU)
Title: Quantitative imaging and mechanics of single plant cell adhesion
Faculty opponent: Jean Christophe Palauqui, INRAE – Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin (IJPB),Versailles, France
Supervisor: Stéphane Verger
PhD Thesis Defence
Anna Renström
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology (SLU)
Title: Physiological and molecular responses to nitrogen-stimulated cambial growth in aspen
Faculty opponent: Andrea Polle, University of Göttingen, Germany
Supervisor: Hannele Tuominen
PhD Thesis Defence
Sara Rydman
Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University (UMU)
Title: A systems approach to identify candidate genes driving salicinoid diversity in Populus tremula
Faculty opponent: Fernando Geu-Flores, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Supervisor: Nathaniel Street
PhD Thesis Defence
Location: UMU lecture room NAT.D.410 (mazemap link)
Elena van Zalen
Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University (UMU)
Title: Comparative co-expression network analysis of abiotic stress response in boreal conifers
Faculty opponent: tba
Supervisor: Nathaniel Street