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.

UPSC Seminar 

Speaker:
Anke Carius
post-doc

Title:
Control of photosynthetic membrane expression in the anoxygenic purple bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum

Host: Göran Samuelsson

UPSC Seminar Series Fall 2013

Speaker
Thomas Stanislas
post-doc UPSC

Title: Lipid composition and endocytosis in plant cell polarity

Host: Markus Grebe

Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9

Cutting Edge Seminar


Speaker:
Dario Grattapaglia
Plant Genetics Laboratory, EMBRAPA Genetic Resources and Biotechnology,
Department of Cell Biology, Universidade de Brasilia, and Genomic Sciences Program - Universidade Católica de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil

Title:
Genomic selection in forest trees

Host: Harry Wu

Room KB3A9 Lilla hörsalen, KBC

UPSC Half-time Seminar

Speaker:
Ogonna Obudulu

Title:

Combine profiling in poplar, a system biology approach 

 

Place: Lilla hörsalen KB3A9, KBC