Seminar series "Outside of Academia"

Title: Working in Umeå - Region Västerbotten

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

Speakers: Katja Stojkovič, Denise Rawcliffe, Domenique André and Romain Castilleux from Region Västerbotten.

More details will come closer to the event

Katja Stojkovič is a bioinformatician working for Region Västerbotten. Before leaving academia, Katja finished her PhD at the biotechnical faculty at the University of Ljubljana and continued her academic career as a Postdoc at UPSC. Denise Rawcliffe is an adjunct clinical laboratory geneticist for Region Västerbotten. Denise finished her PhD at Umeå University and worked as a Postdoc before joining Region Vesterbotten. Domenique André and Romain Castilleux are molecular biologists for Region Västerbotten. Domenique's and Romain's background is in plant science, and before switching to the industry, Domenique finished her PhD at UPSC. Romain received his PhD at the Université de Rouen Normandie and worked as a Postdoc at UPSC.  

You will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in a networking lunch afterwards.

Please register at the latest on 05.02.2025 using the following link: https://forms.gle/yQDjyR7jvz7fPYy28

The seminar will take place in room KB.J3.01 (below lunch room) (room finder: https://link.mazemap.com/ePaQPqp7)

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.).

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)

UPSC Seminar: Richard Immink

Richard Immink

Professor at Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlands

Title: Flowering time and seed quality control: Two sides of the same 'PEBP-coin'?

Host: Johannes Hanson

PhD Thesis Defence

Varvara Dikaya

Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University (UMU)

Title: Broken Sm-ring: A quest to the source of the cold sensitivity of the A.thaliana SmE1 splicing mutant

Faculty opponent: Richard Immink, Professor at Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlands.

Supervisor: Markus Schmid

Link to PhD thesis: It can be found here.