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

Contact: Stefan Jansson

The KBC DAYS 2024 will be held on the 5th and 6th of November.

This interdisciplinary annual conference aims to foster collaborations between different departments and research centres affiliated with the Chemical Biological Centre, KBC, including departments from two faculties from Umeå University as well as from the Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU.

The KBC DAYS 2024 will be held on the 5th and 6th of November.

This interdisciplinary annual conference aims to foster collaborations between different departments and research centres affiliated with the Chemical Biological Centre, KBC, including departments from two faculties from Umeå University as well as from the Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU.

UPSC Scientific Advisory Board Visit

UPSC Scientific Advisory Board Visit

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.).

UPSC Monday Seminarseries 2024

Please note in Carl Kempe Salen

9:00 Hemamshu Ratnakaram

Title: The Role of the Cuticle in Apical Hook Development

Supervisor: Stéphanie Robert

9:30 Julie Guerreiro

Title: H+ drives ultra-fast root-to-root responses to wounding

Supervisor: Peter Marhavý


Place: Carl Kempe hörsalen KB.E3.03
Time: 9:00-10:00

Contact: Thomas Dobrenel, Anne Honsel

The Heads of Department invite to an information meeting about Swedish Academia. This meeting is especially addressed to PhD students and postdocs at UPSC and is organised once per year in November.

Are you new at UPSC?

We invite every newcomer at UPSC to participate in the Welcome Meeting. This meeting will be held twice per semester, four times per year and gives you important information about UPSC, how it is organised, who are your contact persons and will help you to find your way around at UPSC.

Please make sure to attend at least one meeting after your arrival at UPSC. We will serve fika for everyone participating.

We are looking forward to meeting you!

Johannes Hanson (Head of Department, UMU), Totte Niittylä (Head of Department, SLU), Ove Nilsson (Director of UPSC)