Events in January 2023

ViPS events in January 2023

Wednesday 18th, 13:00

Invited Plant Seminars

Alexander Jones, Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University, UK

Bringing into focus the cellular dynamics of plant hormones using fluorescent biosensors and optogenetics

Host: Timo Hytönen

Location: Lecture room B6, Forest Sciences Building, Latokartanonkaari 7-9 and remotely via Zoom

Wednesday 18th, 14:15

Plant Club

14:15 Riikka Mäkilä, OEB, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences

Gibberellins promote polar auxin transport to regulate stem cell fate decisions in cambium

14:35 Kimmo Kivivirta, OEB, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences

Genetic basis of flower size plasticity

14:55 Attiq Ur Rehman, Natural Resources Institute, Finland

Genetic dissection of adaptive traits in strawberry pre-breeding population

Location: Lecture room B6, Forest Sciences Building, Latokartanonkaari 7-9 and remotely via Zoom

Thursday 26th, 13:15

Special plant seminar

Oliver Brendel, INRAE, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, France

Between and within species diversity of water use efficiency for Q. petraea and Q. robur : The H2Oak project at the crossroads of ecology, ecophysiology and genetics

Hosts: Matt Robson & Maxime Durand

Location: Seminar room 2012, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5

Friday 27th, 13:15

Thesis defence

David Israel (Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences & DPPS)

The ecophysiology of plasma membrane aquaporins in Arabidopsis thaliana and Fagus sylvatica

Opponent: Oliver Brendel, INRAE, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, France

Custos: Kurt Fagerstedt

Location: Auditorium 1041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5 and remotely via live stream