Day 1 (Thursday 1st of June)

Morning session - Open for all
Venue: Hörsal NAT.D.320
Please find map to venue here

9:00 Welcome

Symposium Part I

9:05 Grid formation and tissue emergence in the embryos of Saccharina latissima
Ioannis Theodorou Sorbonne University, France / NMBU, Norway

9:35 Low substitution xyloglucan disrupts trafficking to the cell wall
Natalie Hoffmann University of Toronto, Canada

10:05 A gynoecium is born: what growth patterns underlie its development
Andrea Gomez Felipe Université de Montréal, Canada

10:40 Fika (coffee break)

Symposium Part II

10:55 A molecular mechanism for root thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings
Haiyue Ai Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

11:25 Calcium signaling mediates mitochondrial intra-cellular communication during oxidative stress: Role of CIPK9-VDAC3-CIPK3 module in regulating oxidative stress responses in Arabidopsis
Barkha Ravi University of Delhi, India

11:55 Multifaceted role of WRKYs and its cross talk under abiotic stress in Pearl Millet
Jeky Chanwala Institute of Life Sciences Bhubaneswar, India

12:25 Closing

Afternoon session - Per invitation only
Lunch
14:00-14:30 Sowing the postdoc seeds: a personal journey beyond the PhD - Laura Bacete
14:30-16:00 Project "speed-dating" with PIs (with fika)
19:00 Dinner

Contact: Stéphane Verger, Laura Bacete, Petra Marhava

Photo: Laxmi Mishra

Please find more information about the symposium here

Day 2 (Friday 2nd June)

Day session - Per invitation only:
9:00-9:25 Presentation of UPSC and Umeå Postdoc Society
9:25-9:45 Visit of UPSC
Fika (coffee break)
10:00-12:00 Meetings with PIs I
Lunch
13:30-15:00 Workshop by UmU´s Research Support and Collaborations Office
15:00 Meetings with PIs II

Open for all UPSC and invited guests:
17:00 Evening activity at UPSC with dinner

Contact: Stéphane Verger, Laura Bacete, Petra Marhava 

Please find more information about the symposium here

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

Half-time Seminar

9:00 Özer Erguvan 
Title: Ultrastructural characterization and new molecular players of cell adhesion in plants

External evaluator: Charlotte Kirchelle, Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes INRAe / ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France

Supervisor: Stéphane Verger

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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Charlotte Kirchhelle
Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes INRAe / ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France

Title: Shaping multi-layered organs through edge-based growth control

Read more about her research here

Host: Stéphane Verger

UPSC Seminar

Emilie Jacob (Cavel)
CRRBM (molecular biology platform - plant phenotyping facilities),
University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France

Title: Analysis of drought stress in Arabidopsis mutants and waterlogging tolerance in barley by high-throughput phenotyping

Host: Ewa Mellerowicz

PhD Half-time Seminar

13:00 Marcus Larsson

Title: How tree species choice and nitrogen fertilization can increase the climate benefit of managed forests

Supervisor: Annika Nordin

Master thesis presentation 2023

13:00 Anne Braunroth

Title: Plant-growth-promoting-properties of endophytic bacteria isolated from Scots pine needles

Supervisor: Annika Nordin
Co-supervisor: Tinkara Bizjak

Place: Stora Fokusrummet KB.E2.01
Link to map

Time: 13:00-14:00

Contact: Annika Nordin

Welcome to the first UPSC Midsummer lecture!

Two of UPSCs most recent group leaders are presenting an overivew about their groups research. After the lecture, UPSC invites everyone working at UPSC to a joint barbecue starting at around 16:00.

14:00-14:45: MicroProteins - from identification to finding novel solutions for plant breeding
Stephan Wenkel

14:45-15:30: High-fidelity genomics to high-efficiency investigation: accurate prediction of allele-specific gene expression in poplar
Jian-Feng Mao

16:00 Midsummer Barbecue

We cordially invite everyone working at UPSC to the first UPSC Midsummer Barbecue. The registration to the barbecue is closed now. If you have questions regarding your registration, please contact Anna Gustavsson This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Hosts: Johannes Hanson, Totte Niittylä

More information:
http://www.npc-nas2023.se/

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2022

9:00 Luis Cervela-Cardona

Title: CDK8/CDKE1 modulates stress response through CAMTA3 regulation

Supervisor: Åsa Strand

9:30 Shah Hussain

Title: When to die: Arginin and Ornithine fluxes regulate the progression of leaf senescence

Supervisor: Olivier Keech


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

More information:
http://www.npc-nas2023.se/

More information:
http://www.npc-nas2023.se/