Events under 'Seminar'

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2019

9:00 Laxmi Mishra
Department of Chemistry

Title: Reduced expression of the proteolytically inactive FtsH members has impacts on the Darwinian fitness of Arabidopsis thaliana
Supervisor: Christiane Funk

9:30 Jenna Lihavainen
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: When and how to senesce? – Exploring metabolic dynamics during autumn in aspen

Supervisor: Stefan Jansson

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

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Kelly Swarts
Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

Title: Tree Ring Genomics

Host: Ove Nilsson

 

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2019

9:30 Lauri Lindfors
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title: Monitoring winter processes and elasticity in pine and spruce needles using pneumatic dendrometers and dynamic modeling

Supervisor: Vaughan Hurry

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

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2019


9:30 Alexander Vergara Robles

Title: Responses of Arabidopsis to growth in the cold at gene and transcript level

Supervisor: Vaughan Hurry


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

Contact: Anne Honsel

Seminar

Luisa Gouveia
National Laboratory of Energy and Geology (LNEG) in Lisbon, Portugal

Title: Microalgae – the golden crop

Host: Christiane Funk (Department of Chemistry, Umeå University)

Abstract Louisa Gouveia

UPSC Seminar

Chung-Jui Tsai
Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, USA

Title: CRISPR genome Editing in Populus

Host: Nathaniel Street

 
More information: https://www.genetics.uga.edu/directory/chung-jui-tsai

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2019

9:00 Lauri Lindfors
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title: Monitoring winter processes and elasticity in pine and spruce needles using pneumatic dendrometers and dynamic modeling

Supervisor: Vaughan Hurry


9:30 Jenny Lundströmer
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title: Seed sources of Norway spruce from Eastern Europe tested in central Sweden

Supervisor: Harry Xiaming Wu


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

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Jürgen Schleucher
Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umea University

Title: Plant ecophysiology over timescale of decades: Lab experiments, tree rings and isotopes

Host: Catherine Bellini

 
20190319_JurgenSchleucher_abstract.pdf

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2019

9:00 Linda Vuorijoki
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: Targeted proteomics in the analysis of Fe-S cluster metabolism in iron-deprived cyanobacteria
Supervisor: Åsa Strand

9:30 Sonja Viljamaa
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title: Identification of transcription factors involved in the wood formation of aspen

Supervisor: Totte Niittylä

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

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2019

9:30 Anne Bünder
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Half-time seminar

Title: Investigating the Links between Cellulose Biosynthesis, Cell Wall Mechanics and Cellulose Microfibril Dimensions

Supervisor: Totte Niittylä

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

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2019

9:00 Ruben Benstein
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: INTACT of the SAM: Integrating SMART, ATAC and ChIPmentation

Supervisor: Markus Schmid

9:30 Federica Brunoni
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: Development of a rapid method for screening orthologs involved in IAA catabolism

Supervisor: Catherine Bellini


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

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2019


9:30 Clement Boussardon
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: The 19S proteasome-dependent modulation of cell longevity in leaves

Supervisor: Olivier Keech

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

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar

Cyril Zipfel
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Title: Regulation of receptor kinase signaling during immunity and beyond

Host: Rishikesh Bhalerao


Room: Lilla Hörsalen KB.E3.01

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2019

9:00 Bo Zhang
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title: The role of phytochrome B in response to seasonal cues - a different story in Aspen trees?

Supervisor: Ove Nilsson

9:30 Ilara Frasson Budzinski
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title: A Lipidomic perspective of wood forming tissues in hybrid aspen

Supervisor: Thomas Moritz

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

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2019

9:00 Wei Wang
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title: OPENER: an unknown protein related to nuclear envelope, mitochondria and cell cycle in Arabidopsis

Supervisor: Totte Niittylä

9:30 Nóra Lehotai
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: Impaired cold stress response in Mediator mutants

Supervisor: Åsa Strand

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

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2019

9:00 Joanne Lee
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: Modulation of flowering time by a gibberellin methyltransferase in Arabidopsis

Supervisor: Markus Schmid

9:30 Sijia Liu
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title: High-throughput phenotyping of pavement cell features in Swedish Aspen collection

Supervisor: Stéphanie Robert

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

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar

Markita P. Landry
Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Title: Nanomaterials Enable Biomolecule Delivery & Genetic Manipulation of Plants

Host: Alizée Malnoë

Room: Lilla Hörsalen KB.E3.01


More information about the Landry Lab: http://landrylab.com/contact/

Abstract for download:Landry-Abstract_Plant_Transformation-2019.pdf

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2019

9:00 Bibek Aryal
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title: Role of xyloglucan in differential growth during apical hook development in Arabidopsis

Supervisor: Rishikesh Bhalerao

9:30 Simon Law
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: A new approach for co-expression network assembly: a mitochondrial case-study

Supervisor: Olivier Keech

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

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2019

9:00 Sanaria Abbas Alallaq
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: Effect of light on the induction of AR in Norway spruce hypocotyl

Supervisor: Catherine Bellini

9:30 Linghua Zhou
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Half-time seminar

Title: Improve Norway spruce breeding program using genome-wide association study and genomic selection

Supervisor: Rosario García Gil

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

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Heidi Dungey
Senior scientist and Science Leader of Forest Genetics, Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institution), Christchurch, New Zealand

Title: Genetics, field phenotyping and delivery to the forests of New Zealand – current research at Scion

Host: Harry Wu

UPSC Seminar

Peter Kindgren
Section for Molecular Plant Biology,Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Title: Non-coding transcription in cold acclimation

Host: Karin Ljung

UPSC Seminar

Ricardo Alia Miranda
Department of Ecology and Forest Genetics, CIFOR-INIA (Madrid) and iuFOR (Palencia), Spain

Title: Conservation and Breeding of mediterranean pines. Examples from Spain

Host: Harry Wu

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2019

9:00 Andreas Schneider
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: Fungal metatranscriptomics under the influence of N addition

Supervisor: Nathaniel Street

9:30 Thomas Dobrenel
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: What did I do the last six years? (Three tales about stress management in plants)

Supervisor: Johannes Hanson

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

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar

Sally Aitken
Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Canada

Title: A forest of information: The effectiveness of genomic data for managing adaptation in a changing climate

Host: Rosario García-Gil

Room: Lilla Hörsalen KB.E3.01



Abstract:190603_SallyAitken_abstract.pdf

Seminar

Keith Cowan
Institute for Environmental Biotechnology, Rhodes University (EBRU), South Africa

Title: Water repair - the essence of biotechnology for a circular economy

Host: Christiane Funk (Department of Chemistry, Umeå University)


Abstract:

Potable water is becoming a scarce resource in many parts of the world and there is increasing pressure on food production systems. Also, increasing pressure is being exerted to obtain energy from sources other than fossil fuels. In many regions, the most extensive user and curator of terrestrial ecosystems is agriculture which is also the de facto steward of natural resources. In short, very few institutions come close to the comparative advantage held for this vital responsibility while simultaneously providing food, fibre, and other biology-based products including energy. Since modern commercial agriculture has transitioned from production of bulk commodities to the provision of standardised products and specific-attribute raw materials, we can argue that processes such as cultivation of microalgae and the concept of bio-refineries be seen as part of a ‘new’ and very necessary agronomy. At EBRU, we have been exploring integration of microalgae-based bioprocess technologies to achieve wastewater treatment, water recycle and re-use, energy production, and biomass utilisation. Efforts to establish a fully operational solar-driven microalgae bio-refinery for use not only in wastewater remediation but to transform waste and biomass to energy, fuels, and other useful materials (valorisation), with particular focus on environmental quality and sustainability goals remains challenging.

UPSC Seminar

Mads Eggert Nielsen
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Title: Plant membrane trafficking: How to avoid getting sick and conquer the World

Host: Rishikesh P. Bhalerao

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2019

9:00 Jay Prakash Maurya
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title: Identification of a new component in photoperiodic control of seasonal growth

Supervisor: Rishikesh Bhalerao


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

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2019

9:30 Jingfang Hao
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title: Investigation of the molecular mechansim of sustained energy dissipation, qH, in Arabidopsis.

Supervisor: Alizée Malnoë

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

Contact: Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Minna Kemppainen
Department of Science and Technology, National University of Quilmes, Argentina

Title: Laccaria bicolor as an ectomycorrhizal fungal model

Host: Judith Felten

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2019


PLEASE NOTE: This seminar is cancelled.

9:00 Irena Fundova
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title: Genetic improvement of sawn timber products in Scots pine

Supervisor: Harry Xiaming Wu


9:30 Tamara Hernández-Verdeja
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: Coming out of the darkness: Plastid retrograde signals during chloroplast development

Supervisor: Åsa Strand

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

Contact: Anne Honsel