Events under 'Seminar'

Two EMG Seminars
Department of Ecology and Environmental Science (EMG)

13:00-13:45 Yousry El-Kassaby
University of British Columbia, Canada
Title: Breeding without Breeding Evolution: from speeding breeding to genetic parameters unprecedented accuracy

13:50-14:30 Jarosław Burczyk
Department of Genetics, Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland
Title: Long-distance pollen dispersal in forest trees: myth or reality?

Host: Xiao-Ru Wang

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2023

9:00 Lucija Lisica

Title: Unravelling the contribution of mechanosensing to cell-cell adhesion in plants

Supervisor: Stéphane Verger

9:30 Dhruv Agrawal

Title: Bioprospecting thermophilic fungi for auxiliary and accessory activity proteins

Supervisor: Catherine Bellini


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2023

9:00 Varvara Dikaya

Title: Identifying the role of PCP in acclimation to cold temperatures

Supervisor: Markus Schmid

9:30 Ling Cheng

Title: Insights into the functionality of ABCB transporters in the face of temperature stress

Supervisor: Petra Marhava


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2023

9:30 Xuemin Ma

Title: Identification of tissue-specific hormonal regulation of root hair development and response to wounding stress

Supervisor: Peter Marhavý



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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

2nd UPSC Christmas lecture

13.30: Deciphering plant fortresses: insights into plant cell wall integrity
Laura Bacete, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University

14.15: The soil microbiome and the fate of carbon
Vaughan Hurry, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU

15.00: Christmas fika with "pepparkakor" and "glögg" in the UPSC lunchroom

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2023

9:00 Aswin Nair

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

Supervisor: Rishikesh Bhalerao

9:30 Shruti Choudhary

Title: Nitrate responses on a cellular level in the cambial region of hybrid aspen

Supervisor: Hannele Tuominen


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

Seminar series

"Outside of Academia": #6 Can the innovation system be useful for your career?

Do you want to know which career paths are waiting for you outside of academia?

Title: Can the innovation system be useful for your career?

Speakers: Pia Kayser from the Umeå Biotech Incubator and Sofia Mayans from Inficure Bio

Pia Kayser and Sofia Mayans have both worked in companies with support from the innovation system. And both are now working within the innovation system. During this seminar they will tell you about their journey: why they chose to leave academia, how it was to work in a small startup as well as why they are working at the innovation system today. They will also discuss how you can use the innovation systems at UmU and SLU to get a career outside of academia. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in a networking lunch afterward.

Registration link: https://forms.gle/1swhdMCPGYBw5phL7

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 2023

9:00 Vladimir Skalický

Title: From single cell to root system shaping in response to nitrogen

Supervisor: Karin Ljung

9:30 Reyes Maria Benlloch

Title: LupinOMICs to dissect environmental signals controlling lupin development

Visiting guest


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC PhD Student Halftime Seminar

10:30 Julie Guerreiro

Title: Characterization of tissue specific molecular signaling pathway controlling plant defense responses

External evaluator: Charles Melnyk, Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala, SLU

Supervisor: Peter Marhavý

UPSC Seminar

Charles Melnyk, Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala, SLU

Title: The hormonal regulation of parasitic plant infection

Abstract
Parasitic plants are globally prevalent pathogens that attach to and infect a wide range of plant hosts. Key to their success is the formation of the haustorium that fuses to and invades hosts tissues to connect to the vasculature of often distantly related species. Despite their agricultural impact and ecological importance, we have little understanding of how such haustoria form and successfully infect. Here, I will discuss my group’s efforts to understand the developmental basis of plant parasitism and haustoria formation using the parasitic plant Phtheirospermum japonicum and host Arabidopsis thaliana. I will present our work showing that high nitrogen levels act as an external cue to repress haustoria formation via the hormone ABA. I will also present our recent work looking at the systemic regulation of haustoria formation. There, we have uncovered a mechanism whereby existing haustoria repress the formation of future haustoria. This auto-regulation acts systemically in the parasite and depends on the mobile hormone cytokinin that is locally upregulated in haustoria during infection. Altogether, our research sheds light on the importance of cytokinin and ABA to regulate haustoria numbers according to both local and environmental cues to balance resource acquisition.

Host: Peter Marhavý

Listen to Sonhita Chakraborty a former editor at Elsevier and Cell Press.

Have you ever wondered about what happens after you hit submit and send your paper to a journal? Do you know what a scientific editor does? Do you like to think and read about scientific concepts over a piping hot cup of coffee?

Then a career in scientific editing might be just the thing for you! Listen to Umeå Plant Science Centre postdoc Sonhita Chakraborty.

After completing her PhD in plant molecular biology from the University of Toronto, Sonhita worked as an editor for an editing company, the academic publishing company Elsevier and its associated partner Cell Press.

Besides giving you a basic rundown of academic publishing and where it is heading, Sonhita will tell you about her journey, how she got into editorial work, what the day-to-day of an editor looks like and help you decide if it’s a career option for you.

This seminar is jointly organised by "Outside of Academia" seminar series and Umeå Postdoc Society (UPS).

Contact:

For questions, please contact Laura Tünnermann (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Tinkara Bizjak (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Maximiliano Estravis Barcala (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Madhusree Mitra

Title: Novel linkages between polysaccharides and lipids in the cell wall

Supervisor: Ewa Mellerowicz

9:30 Loïc Talide

Title: Crafting tailored tools to study cell wall properties and carbon metabolism 

Supervisor: Totte Niittylä


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Kristoffer Jonsson

Title: Bending the rules: how plants control their shape through an endogenous developmental program

Supervisor: Stefan Jansson

9:30 Garima Pandey

Title: Effect of drought stress on wood development in hybrid aspen

Supervisor: Ewa Mellerowicz


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar

Speaker: Daniël Van Damme
VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium

Title: Order and disorder in clathrin-mediated endocytosis

Host: Stéphanie Robert

Seminar series

"Outside of Academia": #7 Working in Umeå – Skogforsk

Do you want to know which career paths are waiting for you outside of academia? Then listen to Henrik Svennerstam and Jörgen Hajek from Skogforsk.

Skogforsk is the forestry research institute of Sweden with a mission to develop and communicate knowledge about forests, and promote sustainability in forestry through research, services and products. Both Henrik Svennerstam and Jörgen Hajek have been working at Skogforsk for years in their silviculture team. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in a networking lunch afterwards.

Registration link: https://forms.gle/PTp7qgG5b6wtd2rh9
Last date for registration is February 14

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 Clydecia Spitzer

Title: Aboveground and belowground traits are coordinated across twelve boreal tree species

Supervisor:  Sandra Jämtgård, Associated UPSC group leader

9:30 Thomas Wieloch 

Title: Mechanisms controlling carbon assimilation of aspen leaves

Supervisor:  Totte Niittylä


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

Extra Seminar in connection to André Graça dissertation (Department of Chemistry)
hosted by UPSC-associated group leader Wolfgang Schröder

Title: Cotranslational protein folding

Speaker: Gunnar von Heijne, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Stockholm

Contact: Wolfgang Schröder

Extra Edge Seminar in connection to André Graça dissertation (Department of Chemistry)

hosted by UPSC-associated group leader Wolfgang Schroeder

Title: High-resolution cryoEM of membrane protein complexes from and in mitochondria

Speaker: Werner Kühlbrandt, Professor emeritus at the Department of Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Contact: Wolfgang Schroeder

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Eduardo Rodriguez

Title: Comparative gene expression analysis revealing the evolution of tree genome

Supervisor: Nathaniel Street



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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Mishaneh Asgari

Title: The transcriptional landscape in Norway spruce

Supervisor: Peter Kindgren

9:30 Sanchali Nanda

Title: Spectroscopic characterisation of an NPQ complex and its correlation with thylakoid ultrastructure: a photosynthetic tale of Arabidopsis and aspen

Supervisor: Stefan Jansson


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Gibberellins - mass spectrometry method development

Title: Mareike Gutensohn

Supervisor: Annika Johansson

9:30 Jasim Basheer

Title: Understanding temperature mediated plasma membrane dynamics in PIN2-based auxin transport

Supervisor: Petra Marhava


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar: Joris Sprakel

Joris Sprakel
Professor at the Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Title: See the force: new eyes on green mechanobiology

Host: Peter Marhavý

Seminar series

"Outside of Academia": #8 Swedish Defence Research Agency

Do you want to know which career paths are waiting for you outside of academia? Then listen to Johanna Qvarnström from the Swedish Defence Research Agency.

Johanna Qvarnström is working as an analytical chemist at the Swedish Defence Research Agency in Umeå. Her background is in analytical chemistry. Before switching to the industry Johanna finished her Ph.D. at Umeå University and continued her academic career as a Postdoc at UPSC. After her Postdoc Johanna joined the biotech company Karo Bio. Johanna will share her career path from academia to industry and introduce us to the Swedish Defence Research Agency. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in a networking lunch afterwards.

Registration link: https://forms.gle/Tbs6WPnWrJyMr4pb

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 Alice Marcon

Title: The interplay between FT-like and TFL-like genes in the control of phenology and flowering time in Populus trees

Supervisor: Ove Nilsson

9:30 Alexander Vergara

Title: GUN1 retrograde signaling pathway can affect photomorphogenesis through differetial nuclear alternative splicing

Supervisor: Åsa Strand


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Florent Velay

Title: Can we CRISPR out the chloroplastic genome?

Supervisor: Rishikesh Bhalerao

9:30 Maria Kidwai

Title: Deciphering the role of COP9 signalosome CSN5A and CSN5B subunits in Arabidopsis thaliana adventitious root formation

Supervisor: Catherine Bellini


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Seminar: Laura Riggi

Dr Laura Riggi

Postdoc Fellow at the Department of Ecology, Uppsala, SLU & at Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

Title: Crop diversity effects on soil-mediated services in potato-ley strip-cropping systems"

Host: Benedicte Albrectsen

After the talk there will an opportunity to talk to Laura about the Formas Mobility Grant for Postdoc Studies.

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Ondřej Hodek

Title: Development of LC-MS methods for metabolomics

Supervisor: Thomas Moritz

9:30 Loïc Talide

Title: Crafting tailored tools to study plant cell wall properties and carbon metabolism

Supervisor: Totte Niittylä

Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01

Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Cutting-Edge Seminar: Joshua Gendron

Joshua Gendron
Associate Professor at the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Title: New horizons in plant photoperiodism

Host: Stephan Wenkel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Luciano Di Fino

Title: Mechanical stimuli enhancing and orienting cell divisions

Supervisor: Peter Marhavý

9:30 Barbora Jelinková
visiting PhD student from Czech Republic

Title: ARP2/3 behind the wall

UPSC Host: Stéphane Verger


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

9:00 Tinkara Bizjak

Title: Do isolated Scots pine endophytic nitrogen-fixing bacteria have potential as plant growth-promoting bacteria in agriculture?

Supervisor: Annika Nordin

9:30 Alexis Brun

Title: Early harvest of the light: illuminating the epigenetic regulation of photosynthesis establishment

Supervisor: Åsa Strand


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

Contact: Maria Israelsson Nordström, Anne Honsel