Events under 'Seminar'

UPSC Monday Seminar 2018

9:00 Laxmi Mishra, PhD student, Department of Chemistry

Title: Darwinian fitness of proteolytic inactive FtsH protease members (FtsHi) analysed in the annual plant Arabidopsis thaliana

Supervisor: Christiane Funk

9:30 Irena Fundova, PhD student, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title: Progress in the study of Scots pine sawn timber genetics

Supervisor: Harry Xiaming Wu


Place: Lilla hörsalen
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminar 2018

9:00 Joanne Lee, Postdoc

Title: CRISPR-based tools for targeted transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in Arabidopsis

Supervisor: Markus Schmid

9:30 Federica Brunoni, Postdoc

Title: Contribution of DAO-mediated IAA inactivation to auxin homeostasis in Norway spruce seedlings

Supervisor: Catherine Bellini

Place: Lilla hörsalen
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar

Dirk Inze
Science Director, VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium

Title: Molecular networks orchestrating biomass productivity


Host: Ove Nilsson

UPSC Monday Seminar 2018

9:00 Bo Zhang

Title: BLADE-ON-PETIOLE Proteins Act in an E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Complex to Regulate LEAFY Activity

Supervisor: Ove Nilsson

9:30 Claudia Colesie

Title: The cryptocover project - an Antarctic Expedition report

Supervisor: Vaughan Hurry

Place: Lilla hörsalen
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Heather McFarlane

ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia

Title: Cell wall signaling: mechanisms that regulate plant cell wall synthesis and secretion

Host: Totte Niittylä, Rishikesh Bhalerao



Abstract:
20180423_McFarlane_UPSC_Abstract.pdf

UPSC Seminar

Rozenn Le Hir

Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin - UMR1318 INRA-AgroParisTech, INRA Centre of Versailles-Grignon, France

Title: How sugar transport and vascular system development became a "sweet" story

Host : Catherine Bellini

UPSC Monday Seminar 2018

9:30 Anirban Baral, Postdoc in Rishikesh Bhalerao’s group

Title: Probing secretion in plants: Echidna and associates

Place: Lilla hörsalen
Time: 9:30-10:00

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminar 2018

9:30 Peter Grones

Title: Specific auxin distribution regulates lobe formation in pavement cells

Supervisor: Stéphanie Robert

10:00 Jenny Lundströmer, Half-Time seminar

Title: Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) adaptation to varying climatic conditions

Supervisor: Harry Xiaming Wu


Place: Lilla hörsalen
Time: 9:30-10:30

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar


Yousry El-Kassaby

Forest Sciences Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Title: Genomic selection: the tug-of-war between linkage disequilibrium and pedigree


Host: Harry X. Wu

UPSC Monday Seminar 2018

9:30 Jay Prakash Maurya

Title: Control of shoot architecture in trees

Supervisor: Rishikesh Bhalerao

Place: Lilla hörsalen
Time: 9:30-10:00

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Christopher Carrie
Ludwig-Maxmilians University, Munich

Title: How do plants make mitochondria?

Host: Stefan Jansson

UPSC Seminar

Christopher Surridge
Chief Editor, Nature Plants

Title: What is the point of yet another plant science journal? 

Host: Anirban Baral

This seminar series is organised by PhD students and postdocs working at KBC. The aim is to connect academics from KBC with local and international experts to exchange knowledge and experiences that can help to promote a successful individual career development for young scientists.

Are you interested in a career in publishing? Christopher Surridge, Chief Editor at Nature Plants, will talk about how he came to be an editor and the basics of what he does. You are welcome to discuss with him career opportunities in science publishing in an informal discussion round.
 

Speaker: Christopher Surridge

Chief Editor at Nature Plants

Title: Science Editing for fun and profit!

The seminar will be this time in KB.F3.01 KBC Stora Fokusrummet (Seminarroom from the KBC Focus Environment). The space in the room is limited to 40. Please register here if you intent to join the seminar! Registration deadline will be Monday, 21st of May, 10:00h. 

Host: Anirban Baral & Rubén Casanova-Sáez 

UPSC Monday Seminar 2018

9:30 Sanaria Alallaq (Half-time seminar)

Title: Characterization of adventitious root formation in Populus species and Norway spruce

Supervisor: Catherine Bellini

Place: Lilla hörsalen
Time: 9:30-10:00

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar

Julia A. Vorholt
Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Title: The leaf microbiota: disassembling and rebuilding to explore plant microbe interactions

Host: Johannes Hanson

Lab web page:
http://www.micro.biol.ethz.ch/research/vorholt.html

Abstract:

The aerial parts of the plants, which are dominated by leaves, represent one of the largest terrestrial habitats for microorganisms. There is a growing interest to study commensal bacteria to elucidate their interactions with the plants, among each other and to learn how they withstand the hostile conditions of their habitat. A predominance of Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria and Bacteroidetes living in the phyllosphere of numerous plants has been revealed, while metagenomics and metaproteomics approaches gave insights into the general bacterial adaptation strategies to the phyllosphere. We conducted large-scale experiments to isolate Arabidopsis thaliana leaf bacteria as pure cultures. Individual plants as well as individual leaves were sampled at different European sites to determine their core leaf community and to establish a reference strain collection using flow cytometry and dilution series plating. After identifying approximately 3,000 isolates using a high-throughput DNA sequencing-based method we selected more than 200 representative strains belonging to 52 genera of the major phyllosphere phyla covering the majority of the culture-independent taxonomic diversity. Draft genomes of all selected isolates were generated. Recolonization experiments using synthetic communities in a gnotobiotic model system showed reproducible colonization patterns and represents a valuable starting point to identify mechanisms of community formation and function. Examination of plant responses to its microbiota revealed that the plant reacts differently to members of its natural phyllosphere microbiota. A subset of commensals increase expression of defense-related genes and thereby contribute to plant health and performance.

Selected papers (by Johannes):

Bai, Y., Müller, D.B., Srinivas, G., Garrido-Oter, R., Potthoff, E., Rott, M., Dombrowski, N., Münch, P.C., Spaepen, S., Remus-Emsermann, M., et al. (2015). Functional overlap of the Arabidopsis leaf and root microbiota. Nature 528, 364–369.

Delmotte, N., Knief, C., Chaffron, S., Innerebner, G., Roschitzki, B., Schlapbach, R., Mering, von, C., and Vorholt, J.A. (2009). Community proteogenomics reveals insights into the physiology of phyllosphere bacteria. PNAS 106, 16428–16433.

Peyraud, R., Kiefer, P., Christen, P., Massou, S., Portais, J.-C., and Vorholt, J.A. (2009). Demonstration of the ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway by using 13C metabolomics. PNAS 106, 4846–4851.

Publication list:

http://www.micro.biol.ethz.ch/research/vorholt/publications.html

UPSC Monday Seminar 2018

9:00 Vikash Kumar

Title: New annotations and functional characterization CAZymes in P. trichocarpa v3.0

Supervisor: Ewa Mellerowicz

9:30 Tamara Hernández-Verdeja

Title: Redox regulation of the Plastid-Encoded Polymerase during chloroplast development

Supervisor: Åsa Strand


Place: Lilla hörsalen
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Tuija Aronen
Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Helsinki, Finland

Title: Somatic embryogenesis of Norway spruce in Finland – on a way from research to applications

Host: Ulrika Egertsdotter

Master thesis presentation

Sara Westman
Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University

Title: Can vitamins applied during the seed stage enhance herbivore resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana plants?

Supervisor: Benedicte Albrectsen

Master thesis presentation

Cecilia Ström
Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University

Title: SLI1-mediated resistance to Myzus persicae aphids: Implications of transcription and temperature

Supervisor: Karen Kloth, Benedicte Albrectsen 

UPSC Monday Seminar 2018

9:00 Vasiliki Zacharaki
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: How Trehalose-6-Phosphate Synthase 1 (TPS1) controls flowering time in A. thaliana?

Supervisor: Markus Schmid

9:30 Tomas Funda
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title: Applying FTIR spectroscopy for modeling chemical composition of wood in Scots pine

Supervisor: Harry Xiaming Wu

Place: Lilla hörsalen
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Aimin Wu
College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, South China Agricultural University, China

Title: The biosynthesis of the nucleotide sugar UDP-Xylose in Arabidopsis

Host: Totte Niittylä

UPSC Seminar

Thomas Jacobs
VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Gent, Belgium

Title: How do you CRISPR? Simplifying genome editing projects and avoiding common pitfalls

Host: Ove Nilsson

UPSC Seminar

Stefan Burén
Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (CBGP), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain

Title: On the road to making nitrogen fixing plants

Host: Göran Samuelsson, Stefan Jansson

UPSC Seminar

Charles Melnyk
Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden

Title: When Two Make One: Understanding How Plants Graft

Host: Ove Nilsson


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Time and place: 10:30-11:30, KB.F3.01 Stora Fokusrummet (Seminar room at the KBC Focus Environment)

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2018

9:00 Bastian Schiffthaler
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: tba

Supervisor: Nathaniel Street

9:30 Sacha Escamez
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: tba

Supervisor: Hannele Tuominen


Place: Lilla hörsalen
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2018

14:00 Chanaka Mannapperuma
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: What is new and what is coming in PlantGenIE?

Supervisor: Nathaniel Street

14:30 Niklas Mähler
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: Candidate gene selection across species – our collection of hairballs

Supervisor: Nathaniel Street


Place: Carl Kempe salen
Time: 14:00-15:00

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Alfredo Cruz-Ramirez
Molecular and Developmental Complexity Group, Genómica Avanzada-Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad (LANGEBIO), CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico

Title: Study of the lin28-let7 circuit during Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) limb regeneration

Host: László Bakó

Time and place: 14:00-15:00, Carl Kempe salen KB.E3.03

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2018

9:00 Shashank Sane
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title: Role of microRNAs in ageing and bud phenology in populus

Supervisor: Ove Nilsson

9:30 Anna Gustavsson
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: Upgrading the microscope platform to 2018 standard – what is new?

UPSC Microscopy Facility


Place: Lilla hörsalen
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Jana Krajnakova
Scion, New Zealand Forest Research Institute, New Zealand

Title: Cellular levels of ATP, are they important for the success of somatic embryogenesis?

Host: Ulrika Egertsdotter


Abstract and more information about Jana Krajnakova

UPSC Seminar

Francisco Cánovas
Biología Molecular y Bioquímica, Universidad de Málaga, Spain 

Title: Nitrogen uptake, assimilation and metabolism in maritime pine

Host: Ulrika Egertsdotter

More information:
20180927_FranciscoCanovas_Abstract.pdf