Sun. 28 May, 2023 - Sat. 3 Jun, 2023
Mon. 29 May, 2023
UPSC Monday Seminar 2023
Mon. 29 May, 2023 9:00 - 10:00
9:00 Wei Wang
Title: OPENER and interactors: into the unknown of essential plant cell biology
Supervisor: Totte Niittylä
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01
Time: 9:00-10:00
Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel
Thu. 1 Jun, 2023
UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists
All day
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
Fri. 2 Jun, 2023
UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists
All day
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