Events under 'Seminar'

UPSC Seminar

Speaker:
Abel Rosado
University of Malaga, Spain

Title:
The Arabidopsis Synaptotagmins 1 and 3 maintain lipid homeostasis during
cold stress episodes

Room. Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9, KBC

Host: Stephanie Robert

Department of Chemistry 
Seminar

Speaker:
Helena Berglund

Title: Presentation of the Protein Science Facility at KI/SciLifeLab

Place: KBF 31 (close to the entrance hall att Physiology Builidng)

UPSC Seminar Series

Speaker:
Marta Derba-Maceluch
postdoc

Title:
Modification of xylan structure in aspen and Arabidopsis

Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

Younger UPSC PI” seminars
Monday 11/2 2013 12.30-17.00 in KB3A9

12.30 Maria Eriksson
The role of the circadian oscillator(s) and NFX1-like proteins in growth and stress response

13.00 Urs Fischer
Cambial function of STM and KNAT1

13.30 Ulrika Ganeteg
Nitrogen use efficiency and biomass production
– Importance of N remobilization in plants

14.00 Johannes Hanson
Sugar-dependent translational dynamics

14.30 Coffee

15.00 Maria Israelsson-Nordström
Red light-induced signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana guard cells

15.30 Totte Niitylä
Sugar signaling and carbon allocation to cell walls

16.00 Edouard Pesquet
Understanding the molecular mechanisms controlling the morphology of xylem vessels in higher plants

16.30 Stéphanie Robert
Unraveling signaling molecules and their targeted pathways controlling plant growth

UPSC Seminar

Speaker:
Henrik Hallingbäck

Title:
Population subdivision in breeding against an adverse genetic correlation

Room: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

UPSC Cutting Edge Seminar

Olivier Hamant
Biophysics and Development Team, Plant Development and Reproduction Laboratory, ENS de Lyon, University de Lyon, Lyon, France

"Mechanical feedbacks in plant morphogenesis"

Time: Monday 4 March 15:00
Place: KB3A9 "Lilla Hörsalen", KBC

Host: Rishi Bhalerao

KBC seminar/workshop, KBC/UCMR  Research Schools

Speaker
Christian Skotte
Regional Marketing Manager
Science Information International Ltd. (SIIL) Chemical Abstracts Service CAS, Europe

Title:
SciFinder - the choice for chemistry research
- Introduction to SciFinder

Background:
All scientists at Umeå University have access to SciFinder:
http://www.ub.umu.se/sok/tidskrifter/scifinder-web

This database allows you to explore the CAS databases containing literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science.
In his lecture, Christian Skotte will give you an introduction on SciFinder, how to use it, and its possibilities. He will show you examples for how to find patents, molecules, structures, articles...

Workshop on SciFinder

This workshop, lead by Christian Skotte, will give you the possibility to work with SciFinder on your own Computer.
Registration is needed for this workshop. The number of participants is limited to 20 persons.

If you are interested to participate, then please send an Email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (please mark your Email "SciFinder") The workshop takes place in room KB3B3 and you need to bring your own computer/laptop.

Please register before 1 March (first come, first serve - hopefully one scientist in each KBC department will participate in the workshop...)

UPSC Seminar

Speaker:
Nicolas Delhomme

Title:
Spruce assemblies: expect the (un)expected

Place: Lilla hörsalen KB3A9, KBC

Host: Sabine Kunz, Delphine Gendre

UPSC seminar
Half-time Seminar

Speaker.
Henrik Serk

Title:
Understanding lignin biosynthesis and polymerization in Arabidopsis xylem vessels


Room: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

Host: Edouard Pesquet

UPSC Seminar

Speaker:
Petar Pujic
Centre National de la Recherche scientifique (CNRS)
UMR CNRS 5557, Ecologie Microbienne Lyon, France

Title:
Symbiosis between the bacterium Frankia and actinorhizal plants

Place. Lilla hörsalen KBC, KB3A9

UPSC Cutting Edge Seminar

Speaker:
Dolf Weijers
Laboratory of Biochemistry - Plant Development
Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Title:
Tissue and stem cell formation in the plant embryo

UPSC Seminar

Speaker:
Judith Felten, post-doc


Title: Modification of cell wall formation through ethylene signaling in the wood of hybrid aspen

Room: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

UPSC  Seminar

Speaker:
Siamsa Doyle, post-doc

Title:
Characterization of novel modulators of endomembrane trafficking


Room: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

UPSC Seminars 2013

Speaker:
Staffan Persson

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Potsdam-Golm, Germany

Title:

A Blue-print for cellulose synthesis in higher plants


Place: Lilla Hörsalen, KB3A9, KBC

Host: Björn Sundberg

UPSC Seminar

Speaker:
Christoph Peterhaensel
Department of Botany
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany


Title:
The chromatin code of gene regulation in maize and Arabidopsis

Host: Johannes Hanson
Room Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

UPSC Half-time Seminar

Speaker:
Louise Norén

Title:
Elucidating chloroplast to nucleus signaling pathways


Room: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

Seminar

Speaker:
Carmen Weisskopf
Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam

Title:
Mapping material properties in the wood of transgenic trees using Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (SAM)

UPSC - Seminar
Postdoc Seminar
Speaker:
Céline Davoine

Title:
tba


Room: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

UPSC Seminar:

Speaker:
Martijn van Zanten
Utrecht University

Title:
Chromatin organization dynamics during Arabidopsis development and in response to environmental change"

Host: Stephanie Robert
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB3A9

UPSC Half-time Seminar

Speaker:
Erik Olofsson

Title: tba

Room: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

UPSC Cutting Edge Seminar

Speaker:
Mark Estelle
Cell and Developmental Biology
University of California, San Diego

Title:
tba

Room: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

Cutting Edge Seminar
Title: C4 photosynthesis – new perspectives from comparative evolutionary transcriptomics

Andreas Weber
Plant Biochemistry
Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Germany

Room: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

Half-time Seminar

Speaker:
Sacha Escamez

Title:
Late xylem differentiation: Question of life and death?


Room: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

UPSC Seminar

Speaker:
Rachael Oakenfull
Durham University, UK

Title:
The role and regulation of transcription factors associated with freezing tolerance in blueberry

Host: Maria Eriksson
Place: New room: KB3A9 Lilla hörsalen

UPSC / UPRA Extra Seminar

Speaker:
Nicolas Rouhier
Université de Lorraine/INRA Interactions Arbres Microorganismes
VANDOEUVRE-Lès-NANCY, FRANCE

Title:
Roles of Nfu proteins for the assembly of iron-sulfur clusters in chloroplasts

Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9, KBC

Hosts: Gunnar Wingsle/Göran Samuelsson

Cutting Edge Seminar
Olivier J. Ratcliffe
Mendel Biotechnology, Inc., Hayward, California, USA

"Novel technology to enhance tomorrow's harvest"


Place: CHANGE of ROOM!
KB3A9 "Lilla hörsalen", KBC

Host: Totte Niittylä

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Biography: Oliver is Senior Vice President of R&D at Mendel Biotechnology, Inc., a privately-held plant biotechnology company based in the San Francisco Bay Area (http://www.mendelbio.com/index.php). Oliver joined Mendel in 1999 and fulfilled a number of technical roles prior to being appointed as head of research in December 2005. He is a named inventor on more than 40 issued patents and published patent applications and has authored a range of scientific papers on topics including developmental biology, the control of flowering, and the regulation of environmental stress responses in plants. Oliver received a B.A. in Natural Sciences (Part II Genetics) from Cambridge and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the John Innes Centre at the University of East Anglia in the UK. Oliver also holds an MBA from the Judge Business School at Cambridge University.

Seminar outline. Human demands on the planet's agricultural production systems create a long-term sustained need for new technology to improve crop productivity. Oliver will discuss the approaches that Mendel Biotechnology has taken in pursuit of this goal over the past 15 years. The talk will open with an overview of how the company, starting with an early focus on biotechnology traits for yield and stress tolerance based on transcription factors, has developed a leading knowledge base of the plant gene regulatory networks (PGRNs) that control important aspects of crop productivity. He will then explain how this understanding of transcriptional networks is being leveraged to develop unique tools that enable the discovery and development of new chemical and biological products that can be applied to boost multiple aspects of plant performance. Such products represent a brand-new emergent segment within the agrochemical industry, which offers both significant growth potential as well as the opportunity to markedly improve the productivity of a broad spectrum of crops.

Cutting Edge Seminar 2013

Speaker
Frederic Berger
Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore


Title:
Beyond packaging : roles and functions of Histones variants in plants

Place: 
KB3A9, Lilla hörsalen KBC

Host: Laszlo Bako

For a detailed description of his research interests, please visit his homepage http://www.tll.org.sg/group-leaders/frederic-berger/. 

Publication list:


- Vu MT, Nakamura M, Calarco JP, Susaki D, Lim PQ, Kinoshita T, Higashiyama T, Martienssen RA, Berger F. (2013) RNA-directed DNA methylation regulates parental genomic imprinting at several loci in Arabidopsis. Development.
-   Calarco J, Borges F, Donoghue M, Van Ex F, Jullien P, Lopes T, Gardner R, Berger F, Feijó J, Becker J, Martienssen R.. (2012) Reprogramming of DNA Methylation in Pollen Guides Epigenetic Inheritance via Small RNA. Cell 151: 194-205.
-    Jullien PE Susaki D Yelagandula R Higashiyama T Berger F. (2012) DNA methylation dynamics during sexual reproduction in Arabidopsis thaliana. Current Biology 22: 10.1016/j.cub.2.
-    Wollmann H, Holec S, Alden K, Clarke ND, Jacques P-E, Berger F. (2012) Dynamic Deposition of Histone Variant H3.3 Accompanies Developmental Remodeling of the Arabidopsis Transcriptome. PLoS Genetics 8: e1002658.
-    Holec S, Berger F. (2012) Polycomb group complexes mediate developmental transitions in plants.. Plant Physiology 158: 35-42
-    Chen Z, Higgins JD, Tan JLH, Li J, Franklin FCH, Berger F. (2011) Retinoblastoma protein is essential for early meiotic events in Arabidopsis. The EMBO Journal 30: 744-755
-   Hamamura Y, Saito C, Awai C, Kurihara D, Miyawaki A, Nakagawa T, Kanaoka M, Sasaki N, Nakano A, Berger F, and Higashiyama T.. (2011) Live-Cell Imaging Reveals the Dynamics of Two Sperm Cells during Double Fertilization in Arabidopsis thaliana.. Current Biology 21: 497-502
-    Wollmann H and Berger F. (2011) Epigenetic reprogramming during plant reproduction and seed development. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 15: 63-69
-    Berger F and Twell D. (2011) The plant Germline.. Annual review Plant Biology 62: 461-484
-    Kawashima T and Berger F. (2011) Green love talks; cell–cell communication during double fertilization in flowering plants.. Annals of Botany 2011: doi: 10.1093/ao
-    Ingouff M, Rademacher S, Holec S, Šoljic L, Nie X, Readshaw A, Foo SH, Lahouze B, Sprunck S, Berger F. (2010) Zygotic Resetting of the HISTONE 3 Variant Repertoire Participates in Epigenetic Reprogramming in Arabidopsis. Current Biology 20: 2137-2143
-    Aw SJ, Hamamura Y, Chen Z, Schnittger A, Berger F. (2010) Sperm entry is sufficient to trigger division of the central cell but the paternal genome is required for endosperm development in Arabidopsis. Development 137: 2683-2690
-    Jullien PE, Berger F. (2010) DNA methylation reprogramming during plant sexual reproduction?. Trends in Genetics 26: 394–399

UPSC Seminar
Sebastian Bednarek
Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin- Madison

Title:
Seeing Stars: Conserved and Plant-Specific Clathrin-Coated Vesicle Machinery in Cytokinesis and Cell Expansion

Room: KB4C10, KBC

Host: Rishikesh Bhalerao

Presentation of Master Thesis

Hanhan Xia
Department of Plant Physiology

"Influence of Lhcb3 and Lhcb5 on photosynthesis of plants lacking Lhcb1 and Lhcb2"


Place: KBF 30

Supervisor: Stefan Jansson

Career outside academia seminar series: 
Speaker:
Florin Paun
Business Development Deputy Director at ONERA

Title:
From Research to Business Development: challenges in how to create value

Host:
Daniel Pacurar

Room: KB3A9, lilla hörsalen
Resume: 
Dr. Florin Paun  is Business Developpement Deputy Director at ONERA since January 2005. He is in charge with the Technology Transfer and International Development, and defines programs and new partnership policies focusing on complementary knowledge, cross suporting offers, mutual intellectual property valuation, joint spin-off,… 
Previously, he was Senior Science and Technology Expert in materials and structures, Project Coordinator for Multifunctional Materials Program at ONERA, Technical Correspondant for ONERA – DARPA project on Design of High Temperature Acoustic Absorbent Materials and also teached for master degree in aerospace. 
In parallel Dr. Paun has extensive business development experience outside France, especially in emerging East-European markets. He had created his own Engineering and Development Company and he is an associated founder of a dynamic start-up in France.  
He obtained his PhD at ENSICA, Toulouse 1998. Previously, he has joined Ecole Polytechnique, ParisTech, after receiving a Master in Aerospace Engineering at the Aeronautic Faculty in Bucharest.
He has an Executive Certificate awarded by the MIT Sloan on”Management and Leadership”, 2007.