Mon. 12 Jan, 2026 - Sun. 18 Jan, 2026
Mon. 12 Jan, 2026
UPSC Monday Seminar 2026
Mon. 12 Jan, 2026 15:00 - 16:00
15:00 Huibin Wang
Title: Microbial diversity and community structure in two boreal forest sites
Supervisor: Vaughan Hurry
15:30 Chen-Jui Yang
Title: How Recombination Varies Along Genes in Pine and Spruce
Supervisor: Harry Wu
Place: KB.E3.01 Lilla Hörsalen
Time: 15:00-16:00
Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel
Thu. 15 Jan, 2026
UPSC PhD Student Halftime Seminar 2026
Thu. 15 Jan, 2026 9:00 - 14:30
UPSC PhD Student Halftime Seminar Day
Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå UniversityDepartment of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU
09:00 Jarl Kjellström (SLU)
Title: Exploring the link between protein glycosylation and cellulose biosynthesis: A sugar sweet mystery
External evaluator: Colin Ruprecht (Institute of Organic Chemistry, BOKU University, Vienna, Austria)
Supervisor: Totte Niittylä
10:00 Annica Nordström (SLU)
Title: Landscape Breeding: A cost- and time- effective tool to accelerate tree selection and guide deployment
External evaluator: Nathaniel Street (Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University)
Supervisor: María Rosario García Gil
11:00 Anne van Humbeeck (UMU)
Title: LITTLE TWEEZERS: microProteins regulating plant reproduction
External evaluator: Germán Martinez-Arias (Department of Plant Biology, SLU, Uppsala)
Supervisor: Stephan Wenkel
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
13:00 Hemamshu Ratnakaram (SLU)
Title:The Plant Cuticle Regulates Apical Hook Morphogenesis via ROS
External evaluator: Edwige Moyroud (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK)
Supervisor: Stéphanie Robert
Contact:
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU: Hannele Tuominen
Department of Plant Physiology, UmU: Stefan Jansson
Fri. 16 Jan, 2026
UPSC Seminar: Edwige Moyroud
Fri. 16 Jan, 2026 9:00 - 10:00
Edwige Moyroud
Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Title: One size fits all? Understanding the development & evolution of petal patterning using Hibiscus as a model system
More information about the speaker here: https://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/people/edwige-moyroud
Host: Stéphanie Robert
UPSC Seminar: Colin Ruprecht
Fri. 16 Jan, 2026 14:00 - 15:00
Colin Ruprecht
Institute of Organic Chemistry, BOKU University, Vienna, Austria
Title: Substrate promiscuity of plant cell wall glycosyltransferases
Host: Totte Niittylä