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)

Welcome!

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