Mediators and regulators of temporary and somatic reprogramming in plants
By: 
Morten Peterson
Host: 
Peter Bozhkov
Location: 
Lecture hall K. Teaching building, Ultuna
Date: 
2022-12-15
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Temperature sensing in plants
By: 
Philip Wigge
Host: 
Charles Melnyk
Location: 
Room Dvalin, VHC building
Date: 
2022-11-17
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Cassava and yam virus-vector research at NRI: characterisation of diversity to achieve improved diagnostics and disease control strategies.
By: 
Susan Seal
Host: 
Anders Kvarnheden
Location: 
BioCentrum, Lennart Kennes Sal
Date: 
2022-10-27
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Plasticity of root permeability for nutrient acquisition
By: 
Marie Barberon
Host: 
Charles Melnyk
Location: 
Room Dvalin, VHC building
Date: 
2022-10-13
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Condensation of ARF transcription factors to attenuate their activity
By: 
Lucia C. Strader, Duke University
Host: 
Peter Bozhkov
Location: 
BioCentrum, Lennart Kennes Sal
Date: 
2022-05-05
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Uncovering the hidden half of plants: discovering novel ways roots sense and adapt to heterogeneous environments
By: 
Prof. Malcolm Bennett
Host: 
Annelie Carlsbecker
Location: 
BioCentrum, Sal A-241. Ultuna
Date: 
2022-03-17
Time: 
14:00 - 15:30
Rhizosphere chemical communication of plants. How to signal beneficial organisms but avoid parasites from eavesdropping?
By: 
Professor Harro Bouwmeester
Host: 
Charles Melnyk
Location: 
BioCentrum, Sal A-241. Ultuna
Date: 
2022-03-03
Time: 
14:00 - 15:30
The importance of being edgy: directional growth control in plants
By: 
Charlotte Kirchhelle
Host: 
Panagiotis Moschou
Location: 
Virtual Seminar via Zoom
Date: 
2021-12-09
Time: 
14:00 - 15:30
On the move: deciphering molecular mechanisms of salt and flooding tolerance for improved crop stress resilience.
By: 
Romy Schmidt, Bielefeld University
Host: 
Frauke Augstein
Location: 
Virtual Seminar via Zoom
Date: 
2021-06-17
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Breaking winter into “Bits”: how plants sense the cold
By: 
Rea Antoniou-Kourounioti. John Innes Center (UK).
Host: 
Stefanie Rosa
Location: 
Virtual Seminar via Zoom
Date: 
2021-04-22
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Catastrophic shifts in forest-tree symbiosis
By: 
Brian Steidinger
Host: 
Charlotte Jander
Location: 
Virtual Seminar via Zoom
Date: 
2021-04-15
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Off with their head! A tale of decapitation (and auxin)
By: 
Yoan Coudert
Host: 
Mattias Thelander
Location: 
Virtual Seminar via Zoom
Date: 
2021-04-08
Time: 
14:00 - 15:30
Wild Arabidopsis, an immune system bonus, and friendly ‘omonas
By: 
Derek Lundberg
Host: 
Charles Melnyk
Location: 
Virtual Seminar via Zoom
Date: 
2021-03-11
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Anionic phospholipids across scales: from plasma membrane nanodomains to plant development
By: 
Yvon Jaillais
Host: 
Panagiotis Moschou
Location: 
Virtual Seminar via Zoom
Date: 
2021-02-04
Time: 
14:00 - 15:30
Evolution of the sexes and their interactions in plants: what can we see, we poor humans?
By: 
Clément Lafon Placette
Host: 
Claudia Kohler
Location: 
Virtual Seminar via Zoom
Date: 
2021-01-14
Time: 
14:00 - 15:30
Brachypodium distachyon: a new model to understand plant genome evolution in changing environment.
By: 
Prof. Anne Roulin - University of Zurich
Host: 
Linnean Center – Mykopat seminar
Location: 
Virtual Seminar via Zoom
Date: 
2020-12-03
Time: 
13:30 - 15:00
Agroecology and the reconstruction of a post-COVID-19 agriculture
By: 
Miguel A. Altieri, UC Berkeley. USA
Host: 
Marcos Lana
Location: 
Virtual Seminar via Zoom
Date: 
2020-11-26
Time: 
15:00 - 16:30
When stable genomes are not that stable – the curious case of avian centromeres and sex chromosomes.
By: 
Dr. Alexander Suh. Department of Organismal Biology [EBC], Uppsala University
Host: 
Linnean Center – Mykopat seminar
Location: 
Virtual Seminar via Zoom
Date: 
2020-11-12
Time: 
13:30 - 14:30
The importance of local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity to understand populations’ sensitivity to climate change across species ranges
By: 
Marta Benito Garzón
Host: 
Robert Muscarella
Location: 
Virtual Seminar via Zoom
Date: 
2020-10-01
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Accelerated discovery, cloning and deployment of disease resistance genes in wheat
By: 
Brande Wulff
Host: 
Christina Dixelius
Location: 
Virtual Seminar via Zoom
Date: 
2020-09-10
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Dynamic nature of stem cells during cambium development
By: 
Ari-Pekka Mähönen, University of Helsinki
Host: 
Annelie Carlsbecker, Physiological Botany, Uppsala University
Location: 
VHC, Audhumbla, SLU
Date: 
2020-02-27
Time: 
15:00 - 16:00
Local adaptation: from gene to ecosystem
By: 
Jesse R Lasky, Penn State University
Host: 
Robert Muscarella, Plant Ecology and Evolution, Uppsala University
Location: 
Lindahlsalen, EBC, Uppsala University
Date: 
2020-02-06
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Epigenetic reprogramming in plant germlines
By: 
Xiaoqi Feng, John Innes Center, Norwich, UK
Host: 
Claudia Köhler, Plant Biology, SLU
Location: 
Lennart Kennes room, The SLU BioCenter
Date: 
2019-11-21
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Plant phenomics of assimilate partitioning: importance for development, stress responses & biotechnology
By: 
Thomas Georg Roitsch, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Host: 
Martin Weih
Location: 
Ecology Centre, Tammsalen, SLU
Date: 
2019-10-17
Time: 
15:00 - 16:00
Replenishing DNA damaged stem cells: A license to kill
By: 
Lieven De Veylder, VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium
Host: 
Charles Melnyk, Plant Biology, SLU
Location: 
VHC, Audhumbla, SLU
Date: 
2019-10-10
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Adaptive evolution of meiosis in response to whole genome duplication and habitat
By: 
Kirsten Bomblies, ETH Zurich
Host: 
Claudia Köhler, Plant Biology, SLU
Location: 
Lennart Kennes sal (A281), The SLU BioCenter
Date: 
2019-09-26
Time: 
15:00 - 16:00
R-loop, the functional chromatin structure in the plant genomes
By: 
Qianwen Sun, Tsinghua University, China
Host: 
Stefanie Rosa, Plant Biology, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall "S", Ulls hus, Ultuna, SLU
Date: 
2019-09-12
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Evolutionary genomics of speciation and species radiations: mind the gap
By: 
Christian Lexer, University of Vienna, Austria
Host: 
Sophie Karreberg and Pär Ingvarsson
Location: 
Lindahlsalen, EBC, UU
Date: 
2019-09-09
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
A conserved role for bHLH transcription factors in controlling cuticle development in land plants
By: 
Justin Goodrich, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Host: 
Claudia Köhler, Plant Biology, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall "S", Ulls hus, Ultuna, SLU
Date: 
2019-09-05
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Evolution and function of DNA methylation within chromatin
By: 
Daniel Zilberman, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
Host: 
Claudia Köhler, Plant Biology, SLU
Location: 
Lennart Kennes sal (A281), The SLU BioCenter
Date: 
2019-06-10
Time: 
15:00 - 16:00
Arbuscular mycorrhiza, effectors in symbiosis
By: 
Erik Limpens, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University & Research
Host: 
Anna Rosling, Ecology and Genetics, UU
Location: 
Ekmansalen, EBC, UU
Date: 
2019-05-23
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
A cis-regulatory code for epigenetic gene repression in plants
By: 
Franziska Turck, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne
Host: 
Claudia Köhler, Plant Biology, SLU
Location: 
Lennart Kennes sal (A281), The SLU BioCenter
Date: 
2019-03-14
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Resurrected proteins on the origin of flowers, the functional impact of ancient whole genome duplication and the origin of hormone signalling
By: 
Koen Geuten, University of Leuven, Belgium
Host: 
Jens Sundström, Plant Biology
Location: 
Lecture hall T, Ulls hus, Ultuna
Date: 
2019-02-14
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Epigenome dynamics during the plant cell cycle
By: 
Filipe Borges, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin - INRA, Versailles, France
Host: 
Claudia Köhler, Plant Biology, SLU
Location: 
Lennart Kennes sal (A281), The SLU BioCenter
Date: 
2018-12-06
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
New biology revealed by studying protein ends
By: 
Kris Gevaert, VIB / Ghent University, Belgium
Host: 
Peter Bozhkov, Molecular Sciences, SLU
Location: 
Lennart Kennes sal (A281), The SLU BioCenter
Date: 
2018-11-29
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Exploring molecular stress signaling pathways in plants
By: 
Olivier van Aken, Dept. of Biology, Lund University
Host: 
Daniel Hofius, Plant Biology, SLU
Location: 
Lennart Kennes sal (A281), The SLU BioCenter
Date: 
2018-09-27
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Evolutionary, structural, and functional insights into fungal core effector proteins
By: 
Ioannis Stergiopoulos, Dept. of Plant Pathology, University of California Davis, US
Host: 
Georgios Tzelepis, Plant Biology, SLU
Location: 
Lennart Kennes sal (A281), The SLU BioCenter
Date: 
2018-09-13
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Dissecting late vacuole trafficking using chemical biology
By: 
Glenn R Hicks, Center for Plant Cell Biology, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, Dept of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, US
Host: 
Alyona Minina, Molecular Sciences, SLU
Location: 
Seminar room A402, BioCenter, Ultuna
Date: 
2018-06-21
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Rules and roles of non-coding transcription
By: 
Sebastian Marquardt, Universtity of Copenhagen
Host: 
Charles Melnyk, Plant Biology, SLU
Location: 
Lennart Kennes sal (A281), The SLU BioCenter
Date: 
2018-05-24
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
There are no seminars scheduled in the near future
Date: 
2017-12-31
Time: 
-
Maternally deposited peptides regulate embryo development in plants
By: 
Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, University of Warwick, UK
Host: 
Claudia Köhler, Plant Biology, SLU
Location: 
Lennart Kennes sal (A281), SLU BioCenter, Ultuna
Date: 
2017-10-26
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Evolutionary genetics and hybrid seed failure in wild tomatoes (Solanum section Lycopersicon)
By: 
Thomas Städler, Plant Ecological Genetics, IBZ, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Host: 
Claudia Köhler & Clément Lafon-Placette, Plant Biology, SLU
Location: 
Lennart Kennes sal (A281), SLU BioCenter, Ultuna
Date: 
2017-10-19
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
RNA-directed DNA Methylation: Mother knows best!
By: 
Rebecca A. Mosher, School of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona, US
Host: 
Charles Melnyk, Plant Biology, SLU
Location: 
Lennart Kennes sal (A281), SLU BioCenter, Ultuna
Date: 
2017-10-12
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Meeting the Deadline: The Molecular Regulation of Programmed Cell Death in Plant Development
By: 
Moritz Nowack, VIB-UGENT Center for Plant Systems Biology, BELGIUM
Host: 
Peter Bozhkov, Molecular Sciences, SLU
Location: 
Lennart Kennes sal (A281), SLU BioCenter, Ultuna
Date: 
2017-09-21
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Application of plant phenotyping technologies from the lab to the field: state-of the art, trends and challenges
By: 
Fabio Fiorani, Forschungszentrum Jülich, IBG2 Plant Sciences, Germany
Host: 
Martin Weih, Plant Production Ecology, SLU
Location: 
Ekologicentrum, Tammsalen
Date: 
2017-08-24
Time: 
14:30 - 15:30
Macroevolution of Plant Reproductive Systems
By: 
Emma Goldberg, University of Minnesota, US
Host: 
Sylvain Glémin, Plant Ecology and Evolution, EBC, UU
Location: 
Lindhalsalen, EBC, UU
Date: 
2017-05-11
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Regulation of survival and growth by phytohormones in response to environmental changes
By: 
Mikihisa Umehara, Toyo University, Japan
Host: 
Eva Sundberg, Plant Biology, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2017-03-09
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Influence of inbreeding, outbreeding and sex linkage on gene expression in plants and animals
By: 
Bengt Hansson, Dept. of Biology, Lund University
Host: 
Sofia Berlin Kolm, Plant Biology, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2016-12-01
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
The evolution of separate sexes and sex chromosomes in plants
By: 
Gabriel Marais, Biometry and Evolutionary Biology laboratory, CNRS / University of Lyon
Host: 
Sylvain Glemin, Ecology and Genetics, UU
Location: 
Lindahlsalen, EBC, UU
Date: 
2016-11-24
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Vegetal Revolution – how our future can be inspired by plants
By: 
Stefano Mancuso, University of Florence, Italy
Host: 
Velemir Ninkovic, Crop Production Ecology, SLU
Location: 
Audhumbla, VHC (Veterinary Centre), Building 5.
Date: 
2016-10-27
Time: 
14:30 - 15:30
Combining historical phylogenetic and contemporary ecological approaches to understand niche evolution in a clade of native mustards
By: 
Sharon Strauss, Dept. of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis
Host: 
Jon Ågren, Ecology and Genetics, UU
Location: 
Lindahlsalen, EBC, UU
Date: 
2016-10-12
Time: 
13:00 - 14:00
Chemical Ecology of plant defense and Multi-trophic Interactions Above and Below Ground
By: 
Jared Gregory Ali, Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, US
Host: 
Velemir Ninkovic, Crop Production Ecology, SLU
Location: 
Tammsalen, Ecology Centre, Ultuna, SLU
Date: 
2016-10-06
Time: 
14:30 - 15:30
SOILMAN – Working for sustainable agriculture in Ethiopia
By: 
Kristina Lindström, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Helsinki, Finland
Host: 
Sara Hallin, Forest Myc. and Plant Path., SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2016-09-22
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Regulation of photosynthesis by ion fluxes in a rapidly changing environment
By: 
Cornelia Spetea Wiklund, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg
Host: 
Chuanxin Sun, Plant Biology
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2016-09-15
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Vacuoles – pumping up the plant volume
By: 
Karin Schumacher, Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany
Host: 
Daniel Hofius, Plant Biology, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2016-09-06
Time: 
13:00 - 14:00
Comparative analysis of ROXYs, land-plant specific glutaredoxins, in Arabidopsis and the liverwort Marchantia
By: 
Sabine Zachgo, Botany, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Host: 
Annelie Carlsbecker, Physiological Botany / Organismal Biology, UU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2016-05-12
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Lace plant: a novel model to study developmental programmed cell death
By: 
Arunika Gunawardena, Biology Department, Dalhousie University, Canada
Host: 
Peter Bozhkov, Plant Biology, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2016-04-14
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Comparative Genomics of Sex Determination in the Salicaceae.
By: 
Stephen Difazio, West Virginia University, US
Host: 
Sofia Berlin Kolm, Plant Biology, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2016-03-10
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Integration of flowering time signals in Arabidopsis thaliana
By: 
Markus Schmid, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University
Host: 
Eva Sundberg
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2016-03-03
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
SEMINAR CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS
By: 
Karin Schumacher, COS, Heidelberg University, Germany
Host: 
Eva Sundberg
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2015-12-10
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Pitcher plants as model systems for studying ecological regime shifts
By: 
Aaron Ellison, Harvard Forest, Harvard University, USA.
Host: 
Brita Svensson, Ecology and Genetics, UU
Location: 
Lindahlsalen, EBC, UU
Date: 
2015-11-30
Time: 
09:00 - 10:00
Epigenetic variation and adaptation in the plant pathogen Phytophthora sojae
By: 
Mark Gijzen, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada
Host: 
Christina Dixelius
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2015-11-26
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Next-generation sweet sorghums for the sustainable production of fuels and chemicals
By: 
Wilfred Vermerris, University of Florida, USA
Host: 
Martin Weih, Crop Production Ecology (SLU)
Location: 
Tammsalen, Ecology, Ultuna
Date: 
2015-11-19
Time: 
10:00 - 11:00
Alternative splicing: a thermosensor in flowering time control?
By: 
Richard Immink, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands
Host: 
Lars Hennig, Plant Biology
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2015-10-22
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
The functional role of biodiversity in forests
By: 
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, University of Freiburg, Germany
Host: 
Martin Weih, Crop Production Ecology
Location: 
Tammsalen, Ecology, Ultuna
Date: 
2015-10-08
Time: 
14:30 - 15:30
Plant Nt-4/1 protein is involved in RNA long-distance transport
By: 
Andrey Solovyev, Belozersky Institute, Moscow State University, Russia
Host: 
Eugene Savenkov, Plant Biology
Location: 
Room G, undervisningshuset, Ultuna
Date: 
2015-10-01
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Cross-talk in light acclimation and defence reactions in plants
By: 
Saijaliisa Kangasjärvi, University of Turku, Finland
Host: 
Christina Dixelius, Plant Biology
Location: 
Lecture hall A241, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2015-09-02
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
The phylogenetic and functional imprint on community structure: enhancing the species-centric approach
By: 
Nathan Swenson, University of Maryland, US
Host: 
Håkan Rydin, Plant Ecology and Evolution, UU
Location: 
Lindahlsalen, EBC
Date: 
2015-08-24
Time: 
13:00 - 14:00
Know your limits: what factors constrain vegetation responses to warming and rising CO2?
By: 
Danielle Way, Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Host: 
Giulia Vico, Crop Production Ecology, SLU
Location: 
Tammsalen, Ecology, Ultuna
Date: 
2015-06-11
Time: 
14:30 - 15:30
Plants as Drugs: Self-Medication in Animal Populations
By: 
Mark D. Hunter, University of Michigan, USA
Host: 
Maartje Klapwijk, Ecology, SLU
Location: 
Tammsalen, Ecology, Ultuna
Date: 
2015-06-02
Time: 
13:00 - 14:00
THE ROLE OF THE PLANT DEATH PROTEASE METACASPASE 1 IN AGREGATE CLEARANCE AND AGING
By: 
Núria Sànchez Coll, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Barcelona, Spain
Host: 
Peter Bozhkov, Plant Biology
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2015-05-28
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Auxin is a key player in the hormone control that controls adventitious rooting
By: 
Catherine Bellini, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University
Host: 
Sara von Arnold, Plant Biology
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2015-05-21
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Basic and Applied Research for Crop Improvement: Sphingolipids and Oilseed Metabolic Engineering
By: 
Edgar Cahoon, Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska
Host: 
Chuanxin Sun, Plant Biology
Location: 
Lecture hall A241, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2015-02-12
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Widespread heterosis in F1 hybrids of epigenetically divergent parental lines
By: 
Frank Johannes, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Host: 
Lars Hennig, Plant Biology
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2015-01-22
Time: 
14:30 - 15:30
Searching for mechanisms governing the function and intracellular localization of auxin carriers
By: 
Jan Petrasek, Department of Experimental Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Host: 
Eva Sundberg
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2014-12-18
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Next Generation Barley Genomics
By: 
Nils Stein, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Germany
Host: 
Anna Westerbergh (Plant Biology)
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2014-12-16
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Getting to the bottom of Goethe’s hypothesis on the morphogenesis of plants
By: 
Frank Wellmer, Trinity College, Dublin
Host: 
Lars Hennig, Plant Biology
Location: 
Lecture hall A241, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2014-12-11
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Genomic analyses of diversity, selection and speciation in introduced monkeyflowers
By: 
Mario Vallejo-Marin, University of Stirling, UK
Host: 
Jon Ågren
Location: 
Lindahlsalen, EBC, Norbyvägen 18 A
Date: 
2014-10-22
Time: 
15:00 - 16:00
Ecological speciation mediated by pollinators and divergent habitats
By: 
Diane Campbell, University of California, Irvine
Host: 
Jon Ågren
Location: 
Lindahlsalen, EBC, Norbyvägen 18 A
Date: 
2014-10-22
Time: 
13:00 - 14:00
A hormone-dependent chromatin switch in control of flower primordium initiation
By: 
Doris Wagner, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Host: 
Claudia Köhler
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2014-09-18
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Epigenetic regulation by Polycomb group and trithorax group proteins in Arabidopsis
By: 
Renee Sung, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Host: 
Claudia Köhler
Location: 
Seminar room A402, Uppsala BioCenter, Ultuna
Date: 
2014-07-15
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Single-stranded DNA viruses as plant-expression vectors
By: 
Ed Rybicki, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
Host: 
Anders Kvarnheden, Plant Biology
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2014-06-11
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
The ecology and evolution of plant-microbe-insect interactions in space and time
By: 
Ayco Tack, Stockholm University, Sweden / University of Helsinki, Finland
Host: 
Johan Stenberg, Ecology, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2014-05-22
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
With whom to have sex and with whom not – the molecular basis of interspecific hybridization barriers
By: 
Ueli Grossniklaus, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Host: 
Claudia Köhler, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2014-04-24
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Controlling the recognition, removal, and inheritance of protein aggregates – a process resetting the clock of aging
By: 
Thomas Nyström, Dept of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg
Host: 
Peter Bozhkov, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2014-04-10
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Understanding the dynamics of plant shoot development
By: 
Henrik Jönsson, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK / Lund University, Sweden
Host: 
Eva Sundberg, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2014-04-03
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Pathogenomics of Verticillium wilt diseases
By: 
Bart Thomma, Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Host: 
Christina Dixelius, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A241, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2014-03-17
Time: 
15:00 - 16:00
Functional evolution of PIN auxin transporters in the green lineage
By: 
Tom Viaene, VIB / Ghent University, Belgium
Host: 
Eva Sundberg, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2014-02-27
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Defensive strategies and life-history trade-offs in pine trees
By: 
Luis Sampedro. Misión Biológica de Galicia – CSIC, Galicia, Spain
Host: 
Göran Nordlander, Ecology, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2014-02-13
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
When protein and RNA degradation pathways meet
By: 
Dr. Pascal Genschik, IBMP, Strassbourg, France
Host: 
Lars Hennig, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2014-02-06
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Bridging the Gap: Graft Formation in Arabidopsis
By: 
Charles Melnyk, The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Host: 
Eva Sundberg, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2014-01-30
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Noctilisin: A woodwasp venom glycopeptide involved in suppression of pine defense responses
By: 
Jeff Dean, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
Host: 
Sara von Arnold, Plant Biology and Forest Genetics
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2014-01-16
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Seminar CANCELLED due to illness…
By: 
Thomas Nyström, Dept of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg
Host: 
Peter Bozhkov, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2013-12-12
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Evolution and biochemistry of specifier proteins involved in glucosinolate breakdown*
By: 
Ute Wittstock, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Biology, Technical University of Braunshweig, Germany
Host: 
Johan Meijer and Sarosh Bejai, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2013-11-28
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
‘Pollutant turns fly-traps veggie’: the nitrogen nutrition of the carnivorous plant Drosera rotundifolia*
By: 
Jonathan Millett, Centre for Hydrological and Ecosystem Science, Loughborough University, UK
Host: 
Brita Svensson, Ecology and Genetics, UU
Location: 
Lecture hall 3, EBC, UU (Norbyvägen 14)
Date: 
2013-11-21
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Microbial TALE proteins to manipulate, sabotage and bioengineer plant cells
By: 
Jens Boch, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biology, Department of Genetics, Germany
Host: 
Lars Hennig, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2013-11-14
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Plant development, somatic mutation and evolution: how being big is different*
By: 
Douglas G. Scofield, Department of Evolutionary Biology, EBC, Uppsala University
Host: 
Mikael Brandström Durling
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2013-11-13
Time: 
13:00 - 14:00
The bark beetle-associated fungus Ceratocystis polonica detoxifies defenses of its host, Picea abies*
By: 
Almuth Hammerbacher, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
Host: 
Malin Elfstrand, Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2013-11-06
Time: 
13:00 - 14:00
Rhizomania – Virus Diversity, Microevolution and Interaction with Sugar Beet at the Field Scale
By: 
Claude Bragard, Applied microbiology-Phytopathology, Earth & Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Host: 
Anders Kvarnheden
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2013-10-23
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Chemical ecology of an obligate pollination mutualism: olfactory-based host preference in Epicephala moths and evolution of sexual dimorphism in floral scent in their host plants (Phyllantheae)
By: 
Glenn Svensson, Pheromone Group, Dept. of Biology, Lund University
Host: 
Amy Parachnowitsch, Ecology and Genetics, UU
Location: 
Lindahlsalen, EBC, Uppsala University
Date: 
2013-10-17
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Genetic and molecular control of asexual seed formation
By: 
Anna Koltunow, CSIRO, Australia
Host: 
Claudia Köhler, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Room A402, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2013-09-30
Time: 
13:00 - 14:00
Pollen limitation, resource depletion, and synchronous mast-seeding in wildflowers and trees
By: 
Elizabeth Crone, Harvard Forest, Harvard University, USA
Host: 
Maartje Klapwijk, Ecology, SLU
Location: 
Tammsalen, Ekologihuset, Ultuna
Date: 
2013-09-05
Time: 
13:00 - 14:00
Writing and wiping the H3K27me3 epigenetic mark
By: 
Dr. Chris Helliwell, CSIRO Plant Industry, Australia
Host: 
Claudia Köhler, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Room A402, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2013-07-08
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Novel targets for bacterial type III effectors in plants
By: 
Frederik Börnke, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Host: 
Daniel Hofius, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2013-06-13
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
How and where is artemisinin biosynthesized in Artemisia annua?
By: 
Prof. Peter Brodelius, Linnéuniversitetet, Kalmar
Host: 
Folke Sitbon, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Room A402, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2013-05-28
Time: 
15:00 - 16:00
Evolutionary developmental genetics of Norway spruce variety ‘Acrocona’
By: 
Guenter Theissen, Jena University, Germany
Host: 
Sara von Arnold, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2013-03-21
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Plant Vascular Biology 2013 and beyond / How to Write a Competitive Proposal for Formas
By: 
Ykä Helariutta, University of Helsinki, Finland
Host: 
Eva Sundberg, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2013-03-07
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Shoot branching plasticity- how and why?
By: 
Ottoline Leyser, the Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Host: 
Eva Sundberg, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Room A402, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2013-02-14
Time: 
10:00 - 11:00
Local auxin biosynthesis: a trigger for embryo patterning in Arabidopsis thaliana
By: 
Hélène Robert-Boisivon, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic
Host: 
Claudia Köhler, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2013-01-31
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
The multifunctionality of Arabidopsis metacaspases highlighted by their degradomes
By: 
Frank van Breusegem, VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University, Belgium
Host: 
Peter Bozhkov, VBSG
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2012-12-17
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
The Middle Way: Development of the Medial Domain of the Arabidopsis Gynoecium
By: 
Robert G. Franks, North Carolina State University
Host: 
Eva Sundberg, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2012-12-03
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Tissue and stem cell specification in the early plant embryo
By: 
Dolf Weijers, Wageningen University
Host: 
Annelie Carlsbecker, Organismal Biology, UU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2012-11-15
Time: 
14:30 - 15:30
Management of the toxic meadow saffron in semi-natural grassland: reconciling land-use and biodiversity conservation
By: 
PD Dr. Lutz Eckstein, Justus Liebig University Giessen
Host: 
Martin Weih, Crop Production Ecology, SLU
Location: 
Tammsalen, Ecology Centre, Ultuna
Date: 
2012-11-12
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Breeding from Lodgepole and Radiata Pine to Scots Pine and Norway Spruce – Strategic Directions of Tree Breeding in Sweden
By: 
Prof. Harry Wu, UPSC / SLU and CSIRO Black Mountain Laboratories, Australia
Host: 
Host: Eva Sundberg, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2012-10-01
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Live and let die – mechanisms of cell specification in the female gametophyte
By: 
Prof. Rita Gross-Hardt, University of Tübingen, Germany
Host: 
Host: Claudia Köhler, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2012-09-24
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
Plant immune response and breeding of rice varieties resistant to disease and tolerant to flooding
By: 
Professor Pamela Ronald, department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center at the University of California, Davis
Host: 
Jens Sundström, VBSG, SLU
Location: 
Lecture hall A281, Uppsala BioCentre, Ultuna
Date: 
2012-08-31
Time: 
14:00 - 15:00
 

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