UPSC - Seminar Series
Half-Time seminar

Speaker:
Christoffer Johnsson

Title: Understanding secondary xylem formation and creating tools for modifying it


Place Lilla hörsalen KB3A9
Host: Urs Fischer

UPSC Seminar Series
Halftime Seminar

Speaker:
Daria Chrobok

Title: Dissecting the metabolic role of mitochondria during leaf senescence in Arabidopsis thaliana

Host: Olivier Keech

UPSC Seminar Series
Cutting Edge Seminar

Speaker 
Seth Davis
Chair of Plant Biology
Department of Biology, University of York
Heslington, York, UK

Title: Plant circadian clocks: mechanisms and purposes

Host: Maria Eriksson

Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9, KBC

Abstract:

Plant circadian clocks: mechanisms and purposes
Plant growth and stress resistance are coordinated outputs that respond to predictable environmental variation that results from the earth's rotation. An interplay exists between exogenous environmental sensing and endogenous responses. Plants use a circadian clock to time such processes such that homeostasis is achieved. This creates fitness and maximizes growth. The circadian clock itself is a multiple transcriptional-translational feedback system that provides temporal information to coordinate stress resistance and metabolic responses. In this talk I will overview clock mechanism and then highlight our current efforts to examine the metabolic, stress response and circadian systems as integrated processes. Their combined effects on growth and development will be explored in a dicot and a monocot, both in the lab and in the field.

UPSC Seminar Series - Cutting Edge Seminar

Speaker
Dave C. Nelson
Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens
USA

Title: Smoke and hormone mirrors: karrikins and strigolactones control plant growth through homologous signaling mechanisms

Host: Stephanie Robert & Olivier Keech

Recent key publications:

(Full list at https://goo.gl/6b2tkK)

Conn CE, Bythell-Douglas R, Neumann D, Yoshida S, Whittington B, Westwood JH, Shirasu K, Bond CS, Dyer KA, Nelson DC. (2015) “Convergent evolution of strigolactone perception enabled host detection in parasitic plants.” Science, 349:540-43.

Soundappan I, Bennett T, Morffy N, Yueyang L, Stanga JP, Abbas A, Leyser O, Nelson DC. (2015) “SMAX1-LIKE/D53 family members enable distinct MAX2-dependent responses to strigolactones and karrikins in Arabidopsis.” Plant Cell, 27:3143-59.  

Morffy N, Faure L, Nelson DC. (2016) “Smoke and hormone mirrors: action and evolution of karrikin and strigolactone signaling.” Trends in Genetics, doi:10.1016/j.tig.2016.01.002 (available online 2/2/16)

Conn CE, Nelson DC. (2016) “Evidence that KARRIKIN-INSENSITIVE2 (KAI2) receptors may perceive an unknown signal that is not karrikin or strigolactone.” Frontiers in Plant Science, 6:1219.

UREM 2016 - Understanding and applying photosynthesis for a safe future
Organizers: Christiane Funk, Sylvia Larsson, Johannes Hansson and Johannes Messinger

Registration is closed now!

Conference Website
 
This meeting is dedicated to presentations and discussions on how sunlight can be transformed into fuels or valuable products and applications. Examples are the storage of light energy in molecular hydrogen (H2), methanol or ethanol produced from water and or CO₂ by photosynthetic organisms or by artificial photosynthesis, the cleaning of waste water and CO₂-containing flue gasses with photosynthetic organisms, the production of fish food using algae and the efficient use of algae and forest biomass in biorefineries or for the production of biogas. We bring together world experts in the fields of natural and artificial photosynthesis, bioenergy and biorefinery that will interact closely with local researchers and the public to advance these fields.
 
The Umeå Renewable Energy meeting is an annual event in Umeå since 2009. UREM2016 will take place February 24 and 25. We will have 14 invited speakers (of which 3 give keynote lectures) and 14 local presentations. The meeting is highly interdisciplinary, with speakers and attendees having backgrounds in physics, chemistry, biology and physiology. The aim is to strengthen and focus the renewable energy related research in Umeå by inspiring the students and public. For this, also ‘Meet the speaker lunches’ will be organized for students and postdocs, and two public lectures will be held on February 23.


Conference Website

UREM 2016 - Understanding and applying photosynthesis for a safe future
Organizers: Christiane Funk, Sylvia Larsson, Johannes Hansson and Johannes Messinger

Registration is closed now!

Conference Website
 
This meeting is dedicated to presentations and discussions on how sunlight can be transformed into fuels or valuable products and applications. Examples are the storage of light energy in molecular hydrogen (H2), methanol or ethanol produced from water and or CO₂ by photosynthetic organisms or by artificial photosynthesis, the cleaning of waste water and CO₂-containing flue gasses with photosynthetic organisms, the production of fish food using algae and the efficient use of algae and forest biomass in biorefineries or for the production of biogas. We bring together world experts in the fields of natural and artificial photosynthesis, bioenergy and biorefinery that will interact closely with local researchers and the public to advance these fields.
 
The Umeå Renewable Energy meeting is an annual event in Umeå since 2009. UREM2016 will take place February 24 and 25. We will have 14 invited speakers (of which 3 give keynote lectures) and 14 local presentations. The meeting is highly interdisciplinary, with speakers and attendees having backgrounds in physics, chemistry, biology and physiology. The aim is to strengthen and focus the renewable energy related research in Umeå by inspiring the students and public. For this, also ‘Meet the speaker lunches’ will be organized for students and postdocs, and two public lectures will be held on February 23.


Conference Website

UPSC Seminar Series
Half-time Seminar

Speaker:
Bernard Wessels

Title: Ethylene signalling and wood development in Populus



Host: Hannele Tuominen