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

Visit by the Wallenberg Wood Science Centre (WWSC) Research School

Approximately 60 PhD students from WWSC, Luleå University of Technology and Åko Akademi, Finland will visit UPSC.
UPSC staff are especially encouraged to participate in the session between 14:00-15:00 to learn more about our guest's research and what they do, but of course also the first hour of talks is open to UPSC staff. The guided tours are reserved for Research School visitors only.

Seminar (13:00-15:00)

UPSC Speakers
13:00 Ove Nilsson - Welcome to UPSC
13:15 Hannele Tuominen - Improving wood properties in forest trees
13:25 Totte Niittylä - Carbon dioxide assimilation and wood formation in trees
13:35 Ewa Mellerowicz - Modification of wood traits by targeting matrix polysaccharides
13:45 Stéphane Verger - Understanding plant cell adhesion to improve wood quality

13:55 Short break

WWSC, LTU & Åbo Akademi Speakers
14:00 Lauren McKee/Anette Larsson - WWSC Introduction 
14:10 PhD student pitches (ca 2 min each)
  Shao-Hsi Lu, Chalmers University of Technology, WWSC Programme 1 (Materials biorefinery)
  Marita Afiandika, Chalmers University of Technology, WWSC Programme 4 (Functional materials)
  Kesavan Sekar, Chalmers University of Technology, WWSC Programme 3 (Processing and structural materials)
  Renald George Swamy, Luleå University of Technology, Treesearch
  Julia Chrzastowska, Åbo Akademi (Finland)
  Shujun Liang, Åbo Akademi (Finland)
  Alexandra Sandéhn, Linköping University, WWSC Programme 4 (Functional materials)
  Alíz Lalik, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, WWSC Programme 3 (Processing and structural materials)
Read more about WWSC here:  https://wwsc.se/research/
Read more about Treesearch here: https://treesearch.se/

14:30-15:00 Fika

Guided Tours of UPSC Infrastructures (15:00-16:30)

15:00 Introduction (Carl Kempe Salen)
15:10 Tour 1 (40 min)
15:50 Tour 2 (40 min)
16:30 End of guided tours

Contact: Ove Nilsson

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

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