Tuesday, 18th of June 2024

Location:  Carl Kempe salen ("Stora hörsalen"), KBC, Umeå

Session 4
Chair: Catherine Bellini

09:00 Photosynthesis Research at UPSC
Stefan Jansson, Professor at the Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University

09:30 Cell and tissue polarity in the Arabidopsis root
Markus Grebe, Professor of Plant Physiology at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Germany
Former Professor at the Department of Plant Physiology at Umeå University and group leader at UPSC

09:50 MicroProteins, sORFs and other short proteins and their roles in plant development
Stephan Wenkel, Professor at the Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University

10:10 Coffee break

Session 5
Chair: Ove Nilsson

10:40 Knocking on the wood and other stories
Ewa Mellerowicz, Professor at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

11:10 Photosynthetic life at the extreme: the terrestrial ecology of Antarctic
Claudia Colesie, Senior Lecturer at the School of Geosciences – Global Change Institute, University of Edinburgh
Former postdoc with Vaughan Hurry

11:30 Mechanics and dynamics of cell-cell adhesion in plants
Stéphane Verger, Assistant Professor at the Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University

11:50 Closing words
Ove Nilsson

12:00 Lunch