One of the greenhouses at UPSC (photo: Anne Honsel)

Have you ever wondered what it does look like inside the greenhouse on top of the roof? On Saturday, 19th of October between 13:00 and 16:00 o’clock, we at Umeå Plant Science Centre will open our doors for you and celebrate the 7th Fascination of Plants Day!

Learn more about the research we do at Umeå Plant Science Centre, try out your experimental skills and test your plant knowledge. You will also get the chance to take a look inside the greenhouse and other facilities within Umeå Plant Science Centre following guided tours.

Pass by and celebrate with us the fascinating world of plants!

You will find us close to Café KBC which will be open during the event.

Preliminary Programme:

All activities and tours are free of charge and will be mostly in English!

Activities:

• Fruits, veggie’s and more - Test your plant knowledge in our plant quiz
• The plant’s superpower – How can a couple of plant cells give rise to an entire new plant?
• Find the culprit – discover the plants’ microbial neighbourhood and identify the hostile neighbours
• Print your microscope – How can 3D printing help to make science more open?
• Transforming sunlight into sugars – how can we measure photosynthesis?
• How steady is your hand? Test your seeding skills under lab conditions
• Plants and nematodes - What happens when a plant is attacked?

Guided tours:

We will offer every tour once per hour at 13:15, 14:15 and 15:15 and they will last about 30min.

• Visit the greenhouse on top of the roof and get to know the plants we are researching with
• Discover the inside of plant cells and look through our advanced microscopes
• Learn about how it is to be a researcher in a lab and test your pipetting skills
• Take a look on our in vitro aspen nursery and learn how we modify trees
• Find out what biopolymers are and see how they can be analysed

Please note: The number of participants to the tours will be limited to 10. No pre-registration is possible before the start of the event. Place will be given on a ‘first come, first served’ basis!

Contact:

For questions, please contact: Anne Honsel (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

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

PhD Thesis Defence

Camilla Canovi

Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University (UMU)

Title: Tackling a genomic abyss: Approaches to link long non-coding RNAs to potential biological function in Norway spruce and aspen.

Faculty opponent: Tanja Susanna Pyhäjärvi, Department of Forest Sciences Viikki Plant Science Centre (ViPS), Helsinki, Finland.

Supervisor: Nathaniel Street

Link to PhD thesis:

https://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1900774&dswid=6874