Mon. 18 Sep, 2023 - Sun. 24 Sep, 2023
Mon. 18 Sep, 2023
UPSC Monday Seminar 2023
Mon. 18 Sep, 2023 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Abu Imran Baba
Title: Role of RG-11 dimerization in cell adhesion of Arabidopsis and insights into the fiber cell intrusive growth in poplar
Supervisor: Stéphane Verger
9:30 Muhammad Shahzad Anjam
Title: Strengthening localized root immune responses: the mechanisms of lignin deposition
Supervisor: Peter Marhavý
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
Tue. 19 Sep, 2023
UPSC PhD Half-time Seminar Day
Tue. 19 Sep, 2023 10:00 - 16:15
UPSC PhD Half-time Seminar Day
Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå UniversityDepartment of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU
10:00 Laura Tünnermann (SLU)
Title: Molecular mechanisms underpinning plant nitrogen uptake
External evaluator: Doris Rentsch, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Supervisor: Torgny Näsholm
11:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00 Léa Bogdziewiez (SLU)
Title: Single-cell mechanical charcterization of cell-cell adhesion in plants
External evaluator: Edouard Pesquet, Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm
Supervisor: Stéphane Verger
14:00 Sara Häggström (UmU)
Title: Target of Rapamycin (TOR) mediates translational regulation in Arabidopsis
External evaluator: Anders Hafrén, Department of Plant Biology Sciences, SLU, Uppsala
Supervisor: Johannes Hanson
15:00-15:15 Short break
15:15 Adam Klingberg (SLU)
Title: Integrating genomics in tree breeding
External evaluator: Xiao-Ru Wang, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University
Supervisor: Harry Wu
16:15 End of PhD Half-time Seminar Day
Contact:
Stefan Jansson, UmU
Hannele Tuominen, SLU
UPSC Seminar: Edouard Pesquet
Tue. 19 Sep, 2023 16:30 - 17:30
Edouard Pesquet
Associate Professor at Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Title: Unravelling the functions behind differences in lignin chemistry between cell types for plant development and environmental resiliance
Host: Stéphane Verger
Abstract
The biopolymer lignin, deposited in the cell walls of vascular cells, is essential for plant long-distance water conduction, structural support and resistance to biotic and abiotic constraints. Independently of the plant species, the cell wall layers of each vascular cell type contain specific lignin chemistries differing in aromatic substitutions and aliphatic functions. Yet, both the spatial control and the biological function of this conserved and specific lignin chemistry for the cell wall layers of each vascular cell type remain unclear. This lack of clarity is due to our current methodologies for analyzing lignin mainly restricted to ground or ball-milled samples that averages out the spatial and developmental differences between each cell type. We thus optimized in situ quantitative chemical imaging methods to determine changes in lignin structure, concentration and/or composition at subcellular levels in whole plant biopsies using direct methods such as Raman spectroscopy, UV fluorescence and histochemistry [1-4]. We combined functional genetics, using a collection of mutants in Arabidopsis and poplar, with in situ quantitative chemical imaging to unravel the molecular mechanisms controlling the spatial accumulation of specific lignin chemistries in distinct cell types and its impact on each cellular function. We found that specific lignin chemistries accumulated dynamically and differently during the maturation of each cell type and morphotype, changing the concentration and composition of their lignin [5]. We found that lignin spatial accumulation in each cell type and cell wall layer depended on different paralog combination of phenol oxidizing enzymes exhibiting substrate specificities [6-7]. We lastly showed using multivariate analyses that modifying this specific lignin chemistry impaired the cell wall biomechanics of each cell type and morphotype, and consequently plant growth and its response to abiotic constraints [5-6]. Altogether, we show that lignin chemistry is differently controlled for each cell type and morphotype during their maturation to dynamically adjust their function in response to developmental and environmental constraints.
References
[1] Decou R, Serk H, Ménard D, Pesquet E. Methods Mol. Biol. 1544, 233-247, 2017.
[2] Blaschek L, Champagne A, Dimotakis C, Nuoendagula, Decou R, Hishiyama S, Kratzer S, Kajita S, Pesquet E. Front Plant Sci. 11, 109, 2020.
[3] Blaschek L, Nuoendagula, Bacsik Z, Kajita S, Pesquet E. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 8, 4900–4909, 2020.
[4] Yamamoto M, Blaschek L, Subbotina E, Kajita S, Pesquet E. ChemSusChem. 13, 4400-4408, 2020.
[5] Ménard D, Blaschek L, Kriechbaum K, Lee CC, Serk H, Lyubartsev A, Bacsik Z, Bergström L, Mathew A, Kajita S, Pesquet E. The Plant Cell 34, 4877-96, 2022.
[6] Blaschek L, Murozuka E, Ménard D, Pesquet E. The Plant Cell 35, 889-909, 2023.
[7] Blaschek L, Pesquet E. Front Plant Sci. 12,754601, 2021.
Thu. 21 Sep, 2023
UPSC Welcome Meeting for Newcomers
Thu. 21 Sep, 2023 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)
Fri. 22 Sep, 2023
UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar: Arthur Gessler
Fri. 22 Sep, 2023 10:15 - 11:15
Arthur Gessler
Director of the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research (LWF), Group Leader Forest Growth and Climate, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Adjunct Professor ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Title: New approaches for monitoring forest functioning in a changing climate - crossing scales from molecular mechanisms to stand wide processes
Host: Totte Niittylä