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Seminar series

"Outside of Academia": #9 R&D scientist at Qiagen

Do you want to know which career paths are waiting for you outside of academia? Then listen to Janina Leinberger from Qiagen – Düsseldorf.

Janina Leinberger is working as an R&D Scientist with a special focus on the microbiome at Qiagen in Düsseldorf. Her background is in the field of microbiology. Before switching to industry Janina finished her Ph.D. at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Janina will share her career path from academia to industry and introduce us to the process of becoming an R&D scientist with a molecular biology background. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in a networking lunch afterwards.

Registration link: https://forms.gle/ThgRhgL4myTak85p6

Contact:

For questions, please contact the organisers Laura Tünnermann (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Tinkara Bizjak (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Sara Rydman

Title: Identification of candidate genes driving salicinoid diversity in Populus tremula chemotypes: insight from metabolomic and transcriptomic profiling

Supervisor: Nathaniel Street

9:30 David Castro

Title: (An attempt for) depicting conifer-ECM fungi interactions in N-enriched boreal forests

Supervisor: Vaughan Hurry


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Asal Atakhani

Title: Quantifying cell-cell adhesion strength in plants

Supervisor: Stéphane Verger

9:30 Tuuli Aro

Title: Genomic insight into spring frost in Norway spruce: bridging updated phenotyping and predictive modeling

Supervisor: Vaughan Hurry


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

Cutting-Edge Seminar: Anja Geitmann

Anja Geitmann
Professor at the Department of Plant Science, McGill University, Quebec, Canada

Title: Multi-scale control of structural functionality in plants

Host: Stéphanie Robert

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Sandeep Yadav

Title: Pavement cell shape acquisition in Arabidopsis

Supervisor: Stéphanie Robert

9:30 Sara Raggi

Title: The role of the plant cuticle during apical hook development

Supervisor: Stéphanie Robert


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

Company Seminar: Traitomic - Agnieszka Nielsen

Speaker: Agnieszka Nielsen
Traitomic , Copenhagen, Denmark

Title: Induced genetic variation: Precision breeding utilizing conventional breeding technologies

An innovative, accelerated trait development process, enables consumer accepted precision breeding, utilizing non-GM technologies

TRAITOMIC is a Carlsberg spin-out that is specialized in developing vast libraries of genetic variants in elite germplasm to identify traits of interest in plants and microbes. We have established successful collaborations with both, universities, and the agri-food industry. Utilizing only traditional breeding techniques, TRAITOMIC fast-tracks the identification of traits by combining large genetic libraries with an innovative and patented screening method. The method was validated in various crops, including several legumes as well as tropical plants for the identification of valuable traits. The platform technology is also routinely used to develop microbial strains for applications in food, feed, and agricultural bio-solutions. This non-GM approach can lead from seed to trait or cell to trait in a few weeks, thereby accelerating project deliverables and time to market for commercial products.

Hosts: Stephan Wenkel and Jian-Feng Mao

UPSC Seminar: Simon Law

Simon Law

Research Scientist
Microbiomes for One System Health (MOSH) Future Science Platform
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Canberra, Australia

Title: Charting a functional atlas of microbiome assembly across plant development 

Host: Vaughan Hurry

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:30 Isabell Rosenkranz

Title: Cold acclimation: A tug of war between transcriptional repression and activation

Supervisor: Peter Kindgren


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar

Nils Stein
Professor at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany

Title: Global barley diversity and the barley pangenome

Host: Stefan Jansson

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Chen-Jui Yang

Title: Uncovering genetic diversity, introgression, and adaptation in three pine species through whole-genome sequencing

Supervisor: Harry Wu

9:30 Anne Van Humbeeck

Title: LITTLE TWEEZERS: novel family of potential microProteins

Supervisor: Stephan Wenkel


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC technical seminar (UPSCtech)

The UPSCtech seminar series is an internal series organised by PhD students and Postdocs at UPSC to exchange knowledge about different methods and techniques used in plant science.

This seminar will be held  in KB.J3.01 (the room under the fika room). 

Maximiliano Estravis Barcala, a postdoc from Harry Wu’s group, will be showing you how to use the Shiny R package.
This technical seminar could help you in your quest of discovering how to show the data in a more interactive way.

For those of you wanting to join through Zoom, see below

Join Zoom Meeting 
https://slu-se.zoom.us/j/61970430535

Meeting ID: 619 7043 0535 
Passcode: 663877

Contact: Lucija Lisica & Laura García Romañach

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Bertold Mariën

Title: Nature's Master of Ceremony: the circadian clock as orchestrator of tree growth and phenology 

Supervisor: Maria E. Eriksson

9:30 Nazeer Fataftah

Title: tba 

Supervisor: Stefan Jansson


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar

Julia Santiago

Associate Professor at the Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Title: A new connection with the matrix: Structural role of peptides to sustain cell tube expansion

Host: Petra Marhava

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Özer Erguvan

Title: Ultrastructural characterisation of cell ahesion in plants

Supervisor: Stéphane Verger

9:30 Markus Larsson

Title: Tree species choice and soil organic carbon

Supervisor: Annika Nordin


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC technical seminar (UPSCtech)

The UPSCtech seminar series is an internal series organised by PhD students and Postdocs at UPSC to exchange knowledge about different methods and techniques used in plant science.

Ioannis Theodorou, postdoc in Stéphane Verger’s group

Title: Image processing and AI: when is it really needed?

Organisers: Laura Garcia Romañach & Lucija Lisica

UPSC Seminar: Thorsten Hamann

Thorsten Hamann

Professor at the Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

Title: Plant cell wall integrity at the crossroads of plant defence, mechanics and making a difference

Host: Ewa Mellerowicz

UPSC Seminar: Kazuhiro Sato

Kazuhiro Sato

Professor at the Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Title: Genome editing of seed dormancy genes in wheat and barley

Host: Ove Nilsson

The Royal Swedish Academy of Science (KVA) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) collaborate in support of and promotion of scientific exchange between Sweden and Japan. SLU, Lund University and Umeå Plant Science Center (UPSC) have invited a distinguished Japanese scientist, Professor Kazuhiro Sato, to present lectures and discuss further collaboration in the area of plant molecular genetics and breeding. Kazuhiro Sato is a professor in genetics and plant breeding at the Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University.

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:30 Nageena Zahid

Title: Decoding environmental cues in plant-nematode showdowns

Supervisor: Peter Marhavý


Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar

Alisdair Fernie
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany

Title: Biochemical genetics in the omics era

Host: Ove Nilsson

Information meeting for UPSC from the Vibrational Spectroscopy Facility

09:00 Introduction to OPTIR

09:30 Questions and Answers

10:00 Demonstration

Contact

Andras Gorzsas (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024


9:30 Rajiv Chaudhary

Title: Combining dendroecology and association genetics identified candidate SNPs involved in local adaptation to drought in Scots Pine

Supervisor: Harry Xiaming Wu


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

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

SLU Breeding Network Seminar

Jack Wang

Forest Biotechnology Group, North Carolina State University, USA

Title: Multiplex CRISPR Design and Transgene-Free Genome Editing in Forest Trees to Improve Bioenergy and Biomaterials Production

Host: Harry Wu

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Casper Ter Waarbeek

Title: MicroProteins in the Shade Avoidance Response

Supervisor: Stephan Wenkel

9:30 Léa Bogdziewiez

Title: Q-WARG: quantitative cell wall regeneration pipeline (To study adhesion of isolated plant cells)

Supervisor: Stéphane Verger


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

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

Seminar series "Outside of Academia"

Working in Umeå - Agrisera

Speaker: Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund, Agrisera

Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund is working as a Technical Support Manager at Agrisera in Umeå. Her background is in Plant physiology. Before switching to the industry Johanna finished her Ph.D. at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland and continued her academic career as a Postdoc at UPSC. After her Postdoc Joanna joined Agrisera, an antibody-producing biotech company in Umeå. Joanna will share her career path from academia to industry and introduce us to Agrisera. You will have the opportunity to submit questions about Agrisera or Joanna's career path before the seminar (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). All questions will be handled anonymously. As always you can ask questions after the seminar and participate in a networking lunch afterwards.

Please register at the latest on 21.10.2024 using the following link: https://forms.gle/CDkwjdAa3sGLnLEj8

 

Contact

Laura Tünnermann This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Tinkara Bizjak, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Theoretical lecture about the C-Trap

Tomas Soolsma

Application Scientist LEC at LUMICKS

Title: Unravelling biological mechanisms by looking at single molecules in real-time

Host: Åsa Strand

We have a new instrument at KBC and UPSC, the C-Trap. The C-Trap is a versatile and powerful tool that can be used as a single or dual optical tweezers system combined with 3-colour confocal imaging and a multi-channel microfluidics system. With its integration of optical tweezers and multi-colour fluorescence microscopy, the C-Trap allows for the measurement of both force and fluorescence, making it an ideal tool for investigating a wide range of biological processes. 

https://lumicks.com/products/c-trap-optical-tweezers-fluorescence-label-free-microscopy/

On October 23-25 there will be a workshop here at UPSC for the instrument. The theoretical lecture at 9.00 on Wednesday October 23 will be open to everyone.

UPSC Seminar: Tanja Pyhäjärvi

Tanja Pyhäjärvi

Associate professor at the Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki.

Title: Resilience of genetic diversity in forest trees over the Quaternary

Host: Nathaniel Street

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Elena Van Zalen

Title: Comparative genomics of abiotic stress responses

Supervisor: Nathaniel Street

9:30 Ilian Giordano Ponce Pineda

Title: MPK6 signaling in response to cold orchestrates the remodeling of the plasma membrane, serving as a key strategy for enhancing freezing tolerance

Supervisor: Åsa Strand


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

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Barnabás Cseh

Title: Towards clarifying the transport of S-Adenosyl Methionine to energy oganelles

Supervisor: Olivier Keech

9:30 Barbora Pařízková

Title: Lateral Root Development: Is glutamine a novel factor or auxin is the effector?

Supervisor: Karin Ljung


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

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Huanying Niu

Title: Role of ZPR microProteins in plant development and adaptation

Supervisor: Stephan Wenkel

9:30 Laura Tünnermann

Title: Plant organic nitrogen nutrition: costs, benetifs, and carbon use efficiency

Supervisor: Torgny Näsholm


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

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

Seminar series "Outside of Academia"

Title: Working for BioAscent

Speaker: Michalina Lewicka

Michalina Lewicka-Yammine is the director of business development at BioAscent, supporting drug discovery projects. Before switching to industry, Michaline finished a PhD in developmental neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet focused on regenerative medicine. Afterwards, she worked as a product manager, project manager, business development manager and sales account manager at companies such as Pelago Bioscience, Spiber Technologies and GenScript. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in a networking lunch afterwards.

Please register at the latest on 20.11.2024 using the following link: https://forms.gle/KiaFjJmFRzSEbxTP6

Contact:

For questions, please contact the organisers Laura Tünnermann (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Tinkara Bizjak (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).