UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2023

9:00 Aswin Nair

Title: Control of bud break - a role for CIB transcription factors

Supervisor: Rishikesh Bhalerao

9:30 Shruti Choudhary

Title: Nitrate responses on a cellular level in the cambial region of hybrid aspen

Supervisor: Hannele Tuominen


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

Seminar series

"Outside of Academia": #6 Can the innovation system be useful for your career?

Do you want to know which career paths are waiting for you outside of academia?

Title: Can the innovation system be useful for your career?

Speakers: Pia Kayser from the Umeå Biotech Incubator and Sofia Mayans from Inficure Bio

Pia Kayser and Sofia Mayans have both worked in companies with support from the innovation system. And both are now working within the innovation system. During this seminar they will tell you about their journey: why they chose to leave academia, how it was to work in a small startup as well as why they are working at the innovation system today. They will also discuss how you can use the innovation systems at UmU and SLU to get a career outside of academia. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in a networking lunch afterward.

Registration link: https://forms.gle/1swhdMCPGYBw5phL7

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 Monday Seminarseries 2023

9:00 Vladimir Skalický

Title: From single cell to root system shaping in response to nitrogen

Supervisor: Karin Ljung

9:30 Reyes Maria Benlloch

Title: LupinOMICs to dissect environmental signals controlling lupin development

Visiting guest


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC PhD Student Halftime Seminar

10:30 Julie Guerreiro

Title: Characterization of tissue specific molecular signaling pathway controlling plant defense responses

External evaluator: Charles Melnyk, Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala, SLU

Supervisor: Peter Marhavý

UPSC Seminar

Charles Melnyk, Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala, SLU

Title: The hormonal regulation of parasitic plant infection

Abstract
Parasitic plants are globally prevalent pathogens that attach to and infect a wide range of plant hosts. Key to their success is the formation of the haustorium that fuses to and invades hosts tissues to connect to the vasculature of often distantly related species. Despite their agricultural impact and ecological importance, we have little understanding of how such haustoria form and successfully infect. Here, I will discuss my group’s efforts to understand the developmental basis of plant parasitism and haustoria formation using the parasitic plant Phtheirospermum japonicum and host Arabidopsis thaliana. I will present our work showing that high nitrogen levels act as an external cue to repress haustoria formation via the hormone ABA. I will also present our recent work looking at the systemic regulation of haustoria formation. There, we have uncovered a mechanism whereby existing haustoria repress the formation of future haustoria. This auto-regulation acts systemically in the parasite and depends on the mobile hormone cytokinin that is locally upregulated in haustoria during infection. Altogether, our research sheds light on the importance of cytokinin and ABA to regulate haustoria numbers according to both local and environmental cues to balance resource acquisition.

Host: Peter Marhavý

Listen to Sonhita Chakraborty a former editor at Elsevier and Cell Press.

Have you ever wondered about what happens after you hit submit and send your paper to a journal? Do you know what a scientific editor does? Do you like to think and read about scientific concepts over a piping hot cup of coffee?

Then a career in scientific editing might be just the thing for you! Listen to Umeå Plant Science Centre postdoc Sonhita Chakraborty.

After completing her PhD in plant molecular biology from the University of Toronto, Sonhita worked as an editor for an editing company, the academic publishing company Elsevier and its associated partner Cell Press.

Besides giving you a basic rundown of academic publishing and where it is heading, Sonhita will tell you about her journey, how she got into editorial work, what the day-to-day of an editor looks like and help you decide if it’s a career option for you.

This seminar is jointly organised by "Outside of Academia" seminar series and Umeå Postdoc Society (UPS).

Contact:

For questions, please contact Laura Tünnermann (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Tinkara Bizjak (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Maximiliano Estravis Barcala (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).