UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists 2025
Day 1 (Wednesday 26th of March)
Program:
Scientific symposium
Venue: Lilla hörsalen
9:00: Welcome by UPSC Director Ove Nilsson
9:10: Zoe Weeks, Oxford University, UK
The 2D to 3D growth transition in Physcomitrium patens.
9:30: Alagarasan Ganesan, IISER Tirupati, India
Phenotypic plasticity in crop reintroduction: Bridging genetics and evolution to address climate change.
9:50: Che Liu, University of Helsinki, Finland
Whole-tree Lagrangian optimal stomata model and its application to predicting cambial growth of tree stem.
10:10: Research pitches by UPSC PIs
10:30: Coffee break
11:00: Seungmee Jung, University of Wyoming, USA
Discovery of Autophagy Modulators to Combat Phytofungal Pathogens in Ascomycota.
11:20: Surendra Saddala, CEITEC Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Late Meiotic Genes by CDM1 in Arabidopsis thaliana.
11:40: Elsa Gascon, ENS, Lyon, France
Investigating the role of tissue topology during plant morpho-genesis: computational approaches in root and seed systems.
12:00: Research pitches by UPSC PI's
12:30: Lunch break with PI’s
13:30-17:00: Meet and discuss - Matchmaking event with UPSC PI’s
18:00: Joint dinner downtown with PI’s