May 2024
Mon. 6 May, 2024
UPSC Monday Seminar 2024
Mon. 6 May, 2024 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Asal Atakhani
Title: Quantifying cell-cell adhesion strength in plants
Supervisor: Stéphane Verger
9:30 Tuuli Aro
Title: Genomic insight into spring frost in Norway spruce: bridging updated phenotyping and predictive modeling
Supervisor: Vaughan Hurry
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
Wed. 8 May, 2024
Cutting-Edge Seminar: Anja Geitmann
Wed. 8 May, 2024 10:00 - 11:00
Anja Geitmann
Professor at the Department of Plant Science, McGill University, Quebec, Canada
Title: Multi-scale control of structural functionality in plants
Host: Stéphanie Robert
Mon. 13 May, 2024
UPSC Monday Seminar 2024
Mon. 13 May, 2024 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Sandeep Yadav
Title: Pavement cell shape acquisition in Arabidopsis
Supervisor: Stéphanie Robert
9:30 Sara Raggi
Title: The role of the plant cuticle during apical hook development
Supervisor: Stéphanie Robert
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
Tue. 14 May, 2024
Company Seminar: Traitomic - Agnieszka Nielsen
Tue. 14 May, 2024 16:00 - 17:00
Company Seminar: Traitomic - Agnieszka Nielsen
Speaker: Agnieszka Nielsen
Traitomic , Copenhagen, Denmark
Title: Induced genetic variation: Precision breeding utilizing conventional breeding technologies
An innovative, accelerated trait development process, enables consumer accepted precision breeding, utilizing non-GM technologies
TRAITOMIC is a Carlsberg spin-out that is specialized in developing vast libraries of genetic variants in elite germplasm to identify traits of interest in plants and microbes. We have established successful collaborations with both, universities, and the agri-food industry. Utilizing only traditional breeding techniques, TRAITOMIC fast-tracks the identification of traits by combining large genetic libraries with an innovative and patented screening method. The method was validated in various crops, including several legumes as well as tropical plants for the identification of valuable traits. The platform technology is also routinely used to develop microbial strains for applications in food, feed, and agricultural bio-solutions. This non-GM approach can lead from seed to trait or cell to trait in a few weeks, thereby accelerating project deliverables and time to market for commercial products.
Hosts: Stephan Wenkel and Jian-Feng Mao
Wed. 15 May, 2024
UPSC Seminar: Simon Law
Wed. 15 May, 2024 10:00 - 11:00
UPSC Seminar: Simon Law
Simon Law
Research Scientist
Microbiomes for One System Health (MOSH) Future Science Platform
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Canberra, Australia
Title: Charting a functional atlas of microbiome assembly across plant development
Host: Vaughan Hurry
Mon. 20 May, 2024
UPSC Monday Seminar 2024
Mon. 20 May, 2024 9:00 - 10:00
9:30 Isabell Rosenkranz
Title: Cold acclimation: A tug of war between transcriptional repression and activation
Supervisor: Peter Kindgren
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
Thu. 23 May, 2024
UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar: Nils Stein
Thu. 23 May, 2024 13:00 - 14:00
Nils Stein
Professor at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
Title: Global barley diversity and the barley pangenome
Host: Stefan Jansson
UPSC Welcome Meeting for Newcomers
Thu. 23 May, 2024 14:00 - 15:00
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)
Mon. 27 May, 2024
UPSC Monday Seminar 2024
Mon. 27 May, 2024 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Chen-Jui Yang
Title: Uncovering genetic diversity, introgression, and adaptation in three pine species through whole-genome sequencing
Supervisor: Harry Wu
9:30 Anne Van Humbeeck
Title: LITTLE TWEEZERS: novel family of potential microProteins
Supervisor: Stephan Wenkel
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
Wed. 29 May, 2024
UPSCtech Seminar
Wed. 29 May, 2024 14:00 - 15:30
The UPSCtech seminar series is an internal series organised by PhD students and Postdocs at UPSC to exchange knowledge about different methods and techniques used in plant science.
This seminar will be held in KB.J3.01 (the room under the fika room).
Maximiliano Estravis Barcala, a postdoc from Harry Wu’s group, will be showing you how to use the Shiny R package.
This technical seminar could help you in your quest of discovering how to show the data in a more interactive way.
For those of you wanting to join through Zoom, see below
Join Zoom Meeting
https://slu-se.zoom.us/j/61970430535
Meeting ID: 619 7043 0535
Passcode: 663877
Contact: Lucija Lisica & Laura García Romañach