Events under 'Dissertations'

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PhD thesis defence

Bastian Schiffthaler
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: Embracing the Data Flood - Integrating Diverse Data to Improve Phenotype Association Discovery in Forest Trees

Faculty opponent: Marek Mutwil, The School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Supervisor: Nathaniel Street


The public dissertation will be broadcasted live via Zoom:

https://umu.zoom.us/j/64861332450?pwd=TjBvM0Z0aTJmV3FBQ012MWlJV2ZUQT09
Meeting ID: 648 6133 2450
Password: 863393

Please join the meeting in time. When joining, you will first come to a waiting room before being able to join the defence (it will be released after the start of the defence). Please stay muted with no video. If you want to ask a question during the public question time at the end of the defence, send a message in the chat clearly stating that you have a question (e.g. like "I have a question"). You will then be unmuted that you can ask your question.

PhD thesis defence

Jean Claude Nzayisenga
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: Autotrophic and heterotrophic culture of nordic microalgae in wastewater for lipid production

Faculty opponent: Professor Ashton Keith Cowan, Institute for Environmental Biotechnology, Rhodes University, South Africa

Supervisor: Anita Sellstedt

The public dissertation will be broadcasted live via Zoom:

https://umu.zoom.us/j/66172818246?pwd=T2dEcEIrKzgwQmxVV1BDRHJSRUFkQT09
Meeting ID: 661 7281 8246
Password: 575533

Please join the meeting in time. When joining, you will first come to a waiting room before being able to join the defence (it will be released after the start of the defence). Please stay muted with no video. If you want to ask a question during the public question time at the end of the defence, send a message in the chat clearly stating that you have a question (e.g. like "I have a question"). You will then be unmuted that you can ask your question.

PhD thesis defence

Linghua Zhou
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title: Towards genomic-based breeding in Norwary spruce

Faculty opponent: Marcio Resende, Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Florida, USA

Supervisor: M. Rosario Garcia-Gil

The public dissertation will be broadcasted live on https://play.slu.se.

PhD thesis defence

Pieter Nibbering
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title: The role and synthesis of β1,3-galactans in plant cell wall formation

Faculty opponent: Grégory Mouille, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, UMR 1318 INRAE-Agro Paris Tech, Versailles, France

Supervisor: Totte Niittylä

The public dissertation will be broadcasted live on https://play.slu.se.

PhD thesis defence

Bernadette Sztojka
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: New regulators of xylem lignification in Arabidopsis

Faculty opponent: Prof. Simon Hawkins, Department of Biology, University of Lille, France

Supervisor: Hannele Tuominen

The public dissertation will be streamed online.

We will have a small virtual Christmas celebration and also announce the winner of the UPSC Agrisera Prize 2020.
More information has been send out via mail.

PhD thesis defence

Yan Ji
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: Regulation of chloroplast development during the greening process

Faculty opponent: Eevi Rintamäki, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Supervisor: Åsa Strand

The public dissertation will be streamed online.

PhD thesis defence

Jenny Lundströmer
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title: Adaption of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) to current and future climatic conditions

Faculty opponent: Darius Danusevičius, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania

Supervisor: María Rosario García Gil

The public dissertation will be broadcasted live via Zoom:
https://slu-se.zoom.us/j/69342594349?pwd=NVdFK1pJUU9BaEFacktzNlBrdVB1Zz09
Passcode: 269071

Link to thesis: https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/21159/

PhD thesis defence

Sanaria Abbas Jaafar Alallaq
Department of Plant Physiology

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

Faculty opponent: María Carmen Díaz-Sala Galeano, Department of Life Sciences, University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain

Supervisor: Catherine Bellini

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PhD thesis defence

Domenique André
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title: Molecular Regulation of the Annual Growth Cycle in Populus Trees

Faculty opponent: Soraya Pelaz, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Barcelona, Spain

Supervisor: Ove Nilsson

The public dissertation will be live broadcasted via Zoom:
https://slu-se.zoom.us/j/61529444980
Passcode: 286111


Link to thesis: https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/24748/

PhD thesis defence

Anne Bünder
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title: The biology and properties of wood for nanocellulose production

Faculty opponent: Ingo Burgert, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Supervisor: Totte Niittylä

The public dissertation will be live broadcasted via Zoom:
https://slu-se.zoom.us/j/67948993612
Passcode: 370438

Link to the thesis: https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/25573/

PhD thesis defence

Evgeniy Donev
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title: Modification of forest trees by transgenic biotechnologies. From design to the field

Faculty opponent: Sharon Regan, Department of Biology, Queens's University Kingston Ontario, Canada

Supervisor: Ewa Mellerowicz

The public dissertation will be live broadcasted via Zoom:
https://slu-se.zoom.us/j/64843961201
Passcode: 125433

Link to the thesis: https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/25690/

PhD thesis defence

Laxmi Mishra
Department of Chemistry, Umeå University

Title: FtsH metalloproteases and their pseudo-proteases in the chloroplast envelope of Arabidopsis thaliana

Faculty opponent: Catherine De Vitry, CNRS, Sorbonne University, Paris, France

Supervisor: Christiane Funk

The public dissertation will be live broadcasted via Zoom.

Link to Laxmi Mishra's PhD thesis

UPSC Christmas lunch at SLU Kårhus

The Christmas lunch will start at 12.00 o'clock and will include e.g. rice pudding, ham, glögg and more.

Date: Tuesday, 7th December 2019
Place: Skogis Kårhus (SLU’s student union house), Umeå

The registration for the lunch is closed. For questions please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Licentiate lecture

Matej Domevscik
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Title:
Adapting Scots pine Regeneration to the Changing Climate: An investigation of the effects of seed coating, arginine addition, and planting position

Supervisor: Annika Nordin

Link to the thesis: https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/id/eprint/26663 

You are welcome to attend the lecture online, via Zoom! To register, please contact Tinkara Bizjak, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
With a valid vaccination certificate you can also join the lecture in P-O Bäckströms sal, SLU Umeå.

PhD thesis defence

Pushan Bag
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: How do Christmas trees remain ever green? Photosynthetic acclimation of Scots pine and Norway spruce needles during winter

Faculty opponent: Francis Andre Wollman, Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology (IBPC), Laboratory of Membrane and Molecular Physiology of Chloroplast, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

Supervisor: Stefan Jansson

PhD thesis defence

David Castro
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU

Title: Who comes first? Implications of the plantmicrobiome-soil continuum feedback on plant performance

Faculty opponent: Barbara Hawkins, Centre for Forest Biology, University of Victoria, Canada

Supervisor: Vaughan Hurry

The thesis defence will be live broadcasted via Zoom (please contact Vaughan Hurry for details).

PhD thesis defence

Andreas Schneider
Department of Plant Physiology

Title: Perturbance and Stimulation - Using nitrogen addition and high throughput sequencing to study fungal communities in boreal forests

Faculty opponent: Colin Averill, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Supervisor: Nathaniel Street

PhD thesis defence

Sonja Viljamaa
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU

Title: Carbon allocation in aspen trees

Faculty opponent: Andrew D Friend, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Supervisor: Totte Niittylä

PhD thesis defence

Isabella Hallberg-Sramek
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU

Title: Tailoring forest management to local socio-ecological contexts - Addressing climate change and local stakeholders’ expectations of forests

Faculty opponent: Professor Georg Winkel, Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Supervisor: Annika Nordin

Assistant supervisors:
Camilla Sandström, Department of Political Science, Umeå University
Erland Mårald, Department of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Umeå University
Eva-Maria Nordström, Department of Forest Resource Management, SLU Umeå

Location: The public defence will take place in P-O Bäckströms sal at SLU in Umeå and will be also broadcasted via Zoom.

The thesis will be available via the following link from May 3: https://doi.org/10.54612/a.6os9e6ei21

A brief description of the thesis:
Forests are expected to provide multiple ecosystem services and contribute to climate change mitigation, while also being adapted to the impacts of climate change. This thesis highlights the various competing expectations placed on forests in Sweden and how they can be addressed by tailoring forest management to local socio-ecological contexts in collaboration with local forest stakeholders, thereby reducing the gap between forest science and practice.

Keywords: sustainable forest management, climate-smart forestry, ecosystem services, media analysis, machine learning, co-production processes, local knowledge, forest policy, forest stakeholders, scenario modelling.

PhD Thesis Defence

Camilla Canovi

Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University (UMU)

Title: Tackling a genomic abyss: Approaches to link long non-coding RNAs to potential biological function in Norway spruce and aspen.

Faculty opponent: Tanja Susanna Pyhäjärvi, Department of Forest Sciences Viikki Plant Science Centre (ViPS), Helsinki, Finland.

Supervisor: Nathaniel Street

Link to PhD thesis:

https://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1900774&dswid=6874

PhD Thesis Defence

Nabila El Arbi

Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University (UMU)

Title: Exploring the role of RNA metabolism in the context of plant development under temperature stress.

Faculty opponent: Artur Jarmolowski from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.

Supervisor: Markus Schmid

Link to PhD thesis: