Events under 'Seminar'

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Elsa Demes

Title: The role of cell wall in cell adhesion and quantification of microtubule dynamics

Supervisor: Stéphane Verger

Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-9:30

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar

Yousry El-Kassaby
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Title: Genomic-Based Nimble and Efficient Tree Selective Breeding Framework

Host: Rosario García Gil

Landscape Breeding: A new paradigm in forest tree management

This webinar, that is arranged with support from SNS, SSF and SLU Breeding Network, is part of a seminar series from the SLU Breeding Network that will be running at the different faculties at SLU during 2023. You can attend in real life, but it will also be streamed.

Please register latest on January 12 here: www.slu.se/webinar17Jan

Questions? Please contact Rosario García Gil (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Programme

09:00 - 09:30 “Genomic-Based Nimble and Efficient Tree Selective Breeding Framework” (Speaker: Yousry El-Kassaby, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)

09:30 – 10:00 “Breeding without Breeding” (Speaker: Milan Lstibůrek, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic)

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 – 11:00 “Practical experiences with phenotyping, genotyping, kinship estimation and selection for BWB in Scots pine and Norway spruce” (Speaker: Arne Steffenrem, NIBIO, Norway)

11:00 – 11:30 “Design, applications and limitations of Scots pine genotyping array” (Speaker: Tanja Pyhäjärvi, Helsinki University, Finland)

11:30 – 12:00 “Airborne and ground based remote sensing methods for estimation of tree attributes” (Speaker: Johan Holmgren, Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU)

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UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Anna Renström Half-time Seminar

Title: Regulation of wood formation by nitrogen

Opponent: Gabriel Krouk, Institute for Plant Sciences of Montpellier (IPSiM), University of Montpellier, CNRS, INRAE, Montpellier, France
Supervisor: Hannele Tuominen

Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Gabriel Krouk 
Institute for Plant Sciences of Montpellier (IPSiM), University of Montpellier, CNRS, INRAE, Montpellier, France

Title: From nutritional interactions in plants (N x P) to a new type of GWAS with a touch of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Host: Hannele Tuominen

UPSC Seminar

Frank Johannes
Department of Molecular Life Sciences & TUM Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Title: Spontaneous epimutations in plants

Host: Stefan Jansson


More information: http://www.johanneslab.org/ 

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Bodil Häggström

Title: Effect of belowground competition and canopy cover on seedling growth in a boreal pine forest

Supervisor: Annika Nordin

9:30 Vikash Kumar

Title: Conifers genome assemblies at UPSC: an update

Supervisor: Nathaniel Street


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:30 Eduardo Rodriguez Soldado

Half-time Seminar

Title: What makes a tree a tree?

Supervisor: Nathaniel Street


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:30-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar

Emmanuelle Bayer
Institute of Plant ScienceLaboratory of Membrane Biogenesis, CNRS-UMR, University of Bordeaux, Villenave d'Ornon Cedex, France

Title: Staying in Touch: cell-cell communication through plasmodesmata

Host: Stéphanie Robert

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Sanchali Nanda Half-time Seminar 

Title: Unravelling NPQ mechanisms by advanced chlorophyll fluorescence analysis

Supervisor: Stefan Jansson

9:30 Vladimír Skalický

Title: "FACSology" in Theory and Practice

Supervisor: Karin Ljung


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

Seminar series

"Outside of Academia": #1 Science & Law

Do you want to know which career paths are waiting for you outside of academia?

Then listen to Joel Malmgren, Patentkonsult at NOVITAS PATENT, working with intellectual property and patenting!

Please register at the latest* on 15.02.2023 following this link

There will be also the option to join the speaker for lunch (bringing your own food).

Contact:

For questions, please contact the organisers Laura Tünnermann (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Tinkara Bizjak (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Pierrick Bru

Title: Monomeric antennae contribute to photoprotectiove qH

Supervisor: Alizée Malnoë

9:30 Robert Calderon

Title: The role of long ncRNAs in seedling greening: potential new regulators of organelle biogenesis and metabolism

Supervisor: Åsa Strand


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Johan Sjölander Half-time seminar

Title: Timing is everything: Exploring the role of the circadian clock in plant growth

Supervisor: Maria E Eriksson

9:30 Nazeer Fataftah

Title: Autumn leaf senescence: It´s all about nutrients using efficiency

Supervisor: Stefan Jansson

Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Julie Guerreiro

Title: Plant-to-plant communication and perception in response to root wounding stress

Supervisor: Peter Marhavy

9:30 Camilla Canovi

Title: Descending into the abyss of my PhD: long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) in trees

Supervisor: Nathanial Street


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar

Bert De Rybel
Laboratory of Vascular Development, VIB-UGENT Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University, Belgium

Title: Studying vascular development at single-cell resolution

Host: Hannele Tuominen

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:30 András Gorzsas

Title: The Vibrational Spectroscopy Core Facility (ViSp) - What´s in it for you?


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:30-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Eduardo Mateo-Bonmati 
Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow, Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Title: The CPSF phosphatase module links alternative COOLAIR processing to chromatin silencing at FLC

Host: Karin Ljung

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Sara Westman

Title: A systems genetics approach to identifying genes in the biosynthesis pathway of salicinoid phenolic glycosides in Populus tremula

Supervisor: Nathaniel Street

9:30 Pratibha Kumari

Title: Golgi-localized galactan-modifying enzyme complexes for cell wall biosynthesis
Supervisor: Totte Niittylä


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Shahid Siddique
Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, USA

Title: Insights into Host-Parasite Interactions: Nematode Infection, Host Resistance, and the Challenge of Resistance Breaking

Host: Peter Marhavy


More information: https://entomology.ucdavis.edu/people/shahid-siddique

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Alice Marcon

Title: Molecular and protein characterization in different light conditions of the COL gene family in Populus

Supervisor: Ove Nilsson

9:30 Jenna Lihavainen

Title: How do trees know when to senesce?

Supervisor: Stefan Jansson


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

PhD half-time seminar

Tinkara Bizjak

Title: Boreal forest microbial communities in connection to nitrogen

Supervisor: Annika Nordin

Opponent: Göran Spong, Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, SLU

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Barbora Pařízková

Title: Effect of organic nitrogen on lateral root development

Supervisor: Karin Ljung


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-9:30

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Leonor Ramirez

Title: Why are conifers green in the dark?

Supervisor: Åsa Strand

9:30 Manoj Kumar Mandal

Title: Unveiling the role of Type II Metacaspases in poplar

Supervisor: Hannele Tuominen


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC technical seminar (UPSCtech)

The speaker will be Loïc Talide who will give two talks:

Talk 1: Using Organic Electronic Ion Pumps for controlled delivery of molecules of interest.
Talk 2: Introduction to the new Smart Plate Imaging Robot.

The UPSCtech seminar series is an internal series organised by PhD students and Postdocs at UPSC to exchange knowledge about different methods and techniques used in plant science.

Seminar series

"Outside of Academia": #2 Industry in Umeå - Nordic Biomarker

Do you want to know which career paths are waiting for you outside academia?
Then listen to Louise Lindbäck from Nordic Biomarker about becoming a R&D engineer after an academic career

Please register at the latest on 19.04.2023 following this link

Contact:

For questions, please contact the organisers Laura Tünnermann (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Tinkara Bizjak (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Sonali Ranade

Title: Norway spruce forests in Sweden: moving from local adaptations to landscape breeding

Supervisor: Rosario García-Gil

9:30 Rajiv Chaudhary

Title: Identification of molecular markers associated with fungal resistance in Norway spruce and common ash

Supervisor: Harry Wu


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Thomas Dobrenel

Title: Update on Norway spruce transformation

Supervisor: Ulrika Egertsdotter


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-9:30

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Bo Zhang

Title: Phytochrome B and Phytochrome-Interacting Factor 4 control trees low-temperature growth

Supervisor: Ove Nilsson


Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-9:30

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Andrew D. Friend
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Title: Tree growth, the global carbon cycle, and climate

Host: Totte Niittylä


More information: https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/friend/


Abstract of his talk:
The global natural land surface has been a substantial net sink of anthropogenic CO2 over recent decades (e.g. equivalent to 29% of fossil fuel plus land-use emissions over 2012-2021), reducing the rate of climate change. It is believed that forested ecosystems are a major contributor to this sink. However, we have a poor understanding of the causes of this imbalance, and hence have low confidence in our ability to predict future atmospheric CO2. The carbon balance of the land surface is typically viewed as being controlled by photosynthesis and heterotrophic respiration. However, plant growth (and hence carbon storage) is under direct control by biological factors and the environment independently of photosynthesis, suggesting current paradigms are at best incomplete. It is notable that global vegetation models disagree strongly on the relative attribution of the net land sink to different processes (especially to CO2 fertilization), and it is possible that this problem is at least partly due to their over-emphasis on photosynthesis parameterisations. Our research aims to improve understanding of controls on plant growth and how to incorporate this understanding into global models, shifting them away from the photosynthesis paradigm. We have developed a detailed model of xylogenesis that has provided insights into how wood formation is controlled, and are exploring formulations for coupling growth and photosynthesis at the whole-plant level in a new conceptual framework. Our model development is being supported by experimental and observational investigations into the physiological controls on wood formation at tissue and whole-plant levels in the hybrid poplar clone T89. Initial results from our new approach to modelling global vegetation carbon fluxes will be presented and remaining gaps in our understanding outlined.

UPSC Technical Seminar

ChatGPT and Bing: AI companions and applications for the scientific landscape

Michael Stewart

All are welcome!

Contact: Özer Erguvan and Laura García Garmañach (UPSC)