UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Shashank Pandey

Title: Unravelling the molecular basis of low temperature as a seasonal cue for growth cessation

Supervisor: Rishi Bhalerao

9:30 Aswin Nair

Title: Control of bud break - a role for CIB transcription factors

Supervisor: Rishi Bhalerao


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

Contact: Maria Nordström

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

Which kind of plants have people eaten thousand years ago and how did they prepare their food? How does the pollen look like that causes allergies and how have the plants we eat developed over time? Find out what is the plant’s favourite food, discover their bacterial and fungal neighbours and be amazed at how different plants can look like. On the 21st of May, we invite you to a day filled with different activities around plants and plant research. Pass by and get fascinated!

At the Fascination of Plants Day, plant scientists will present their favourite plants, you can take a look into the underground life watching plant roots and their fungal friends, test how elastic plants are and do many more experiments.

Bonsaisällskapet will show bonsai trees from our forest trees and the Friends of Arboretum Norr will present the diversity of trees and bushes growing at the arboretum in Baggböle and that derive from different parts of the world. You can find all activities following the below programme link. Our mascot Flora will welcome you!

Umeå Plant Science Centre together with Curiosum, Umeå University and SLU are arranging the Fascination of Plants Day in Umeå. It is an international event and will be celebrated all over the world. More than 500 scientific institutions, universities, botanical gardens in more than 50 countries will open their doors to visitors.

Come and become part of this world-wide event and be amazed at the fascinating world of plants!

Link to more information and the full programme

Are you interested to read more about the Fascination of Plants Day in general? Have a look on these pages:
https://plantday18may.org (official international page)
https://www.fascinerandevaxtersdag.se (Swedish national page)

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Sara Raggi

Title: Lhook! Deep Learning-based method for High-throughput apical hook phenotyping

Supervisor: Stéphanie Robert

9:30 Alexander Vergara

Title: The role of alternative splicing during photomorphogenesis

Supervisor: Åsa Strand


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

Contact: Anne Honsel

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).

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:30 Nelson Rojas-Murcia

Title: Dissecting the gene activation of spliceosomal Sm required to cope with low temperature in Arabidopsis

Supervisor: Markus Schmid


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

Contact: Anne Honsel