WWSC Academy-UPSC Meeting, August 31st – September 2nd 2015

The goal for the Wallenberg Wood Science Center, WWSC Academy is to provide fundamental education within wood science and technology for all WWSC PhD students on graduate level in the interdisciplinary topics relevant for WWSC Center. We have hosting thirty students accompanied by their coordinator Prof. Paul Gatenholm from Chalmers.
We have prepared an exciting programme for this WWSC-UPSC meeting with
• lectures by Ove Nilsson, Ewa Mellerowicz, Rosario Garcia Gil and Nathaniel Street on wood biology, wood biotechnology, genetics and genomics
• a poster-session and a research seminar slot where WWSC-Academy PhD students and UPSC PhD students and postdocs will present their research to each other
• a team-building activity “5-kamp” and a BBQ that will foster closer connections of WWSC and UPSC members
• and finally a common workshop of UPSC and WWSC students/postdocs on topics such as “Design of new trees for growth of materials” and “New materials from transgenic trees”