UPSC Seminar

Karen Kloth

Assistant Professor at the Laboratory of Entomology (ENT), Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Title: Aphids, the phloem and the belowground microbiome

Host: Benedicte Albrectsen

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2023

9:00 Alicia López

Title: Knowns and unknowns about the mitochondrial iron-sulfur cluster assembly machinery in plants

Supervisor: Olivier Keech

9:30 Laura García Romañach

Title: Flowering time in trees: the role of the miR156-SPL pathway

Supervisor: Ove Nilsson


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Marek Mutwil

School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Title: Unraveling the rules of gene expression regulation in complex environments

Host: Stephan Wenkel

The KBC DAYS will be held this year on the 7th-8th of November. A scientific focus this year will be on "AI in research".

This interdisciplinary annual conference aims to foster collaborations between different departments and research centres affiliated with the Chemical Biological Centre, KBC, including departments from two faculties from Umeå University as well as from the Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU.

More information about the conference can be found here:
https://www.umu.se/en/events/kbc-days-2023_11766534/

The Heads of Department invite to an information meeting about Swedish Academia. This meeting is especially addressed to PhD students and postdocs at UPSC and is organised once per year in November.

The KBC DAYS will be held this year on the 7th-8th of November. A scientific focus this year will be on "AI in research".

This interdisciplinary annual conference aims to foster collaborations between different departments and research centres affiliated with the Chemical Biological Centre, KBC, including departments from two faculties from Umeå University as well as from the Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU.

More information about the conference can be found here:
https://www.umu.se/en/events/kbc-days-2023_11766534/

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2023

9:30 Amanda Mikko

Title: Deep sequencing air to monitor plant pathogens

Supervisor: Benedicte Riber Albrectsen


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:30-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

Seminar series

"Outside of Academia": #5 Being a Science Illustrator

Do you want to know which career paths are waiting for you outside of academia? Then listen to Daria Chrobok from DC SciArt.

Daria Chrobok is a scientific illustrator and founder of DC SciArt in Umeå. Her background is in plant physiology, and she finished her Ph.D. at the Umeå Plant Science Center before starting her own science illustration company in 2019. Daria will share her experience from academia to becoming a scientific illustrator and company founder. She will introduce us to her daily tasks as a scientific illustrator with an emphasis on plant science research. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in a networking lunch afterward.

Registration link: https://forms.gle/VfeoCMeR65c5kVgi7

Contact:

For questions, please contact the organisers Laura Tünnermann (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Tinkara Bizjak (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

UPSC PhD Student Halftime Seminar

Teitur Ahlgren, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University
Title: Exploring chromatin structure in Norway spruce
External evaluator: Per Stenberg, Associate lecturer at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University
Supervisor: Nathaniel Street

UPSC Monday Seminar Series 2023

9:30 Adrien Heymans

Title: In silico analysis of the influence of root hydraulic anatomy on water uptake

Supervisor: Stéphanie Robert


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:30-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

Two EMG Seminars
Department of Ecology and Environmental Science (EMG)

13:00-13:45 Yousry El-Kassaby
University of British Columbia, Canada
Title: Breeding without Breeding Evolution: from speeding breeding to genetic parameters unprecedented accuracy

13:50-14:30 Jarosław Burczyk
Department of Genetics, Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland
Title: Long-distance pollen dispersal in forest trees: myth or reality?

Host: Xiao-Ru Wang

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2023

9:00 Lucija Lisica

Title: Unravelling the contribution of mechanosensing to cell-cell adhesion in plants

Supervisor: Stéphane Verger

9:30 Dhruv Agrawal

Title: Bioprospecting thermophilic fungi for auxiliary and accessory activity proteins

Supervisor: Catherine Bellini


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

Are you new at UPSC?

We invite every newcomer at UPSC to participate in the Welcome Meeting. This meeting will be held twice per semester, four times per year and gives you important information about UPSC, how it is organised, who are your contact persons and will help you to find your way around at UPSC.

Please make sure to attend at least one meeting after your arrival at UPSC. We will serve fika for everyone participating.

We are looking forward to meeting you!

Johannes Hanson (Head of Department, UMU), Totte Niittylä (Head of Department, SLU), Ove Nilsson (Director of UPSC)