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Umeå Plant Science Centre
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A centre of excellence for experimental plant research and forest biotechnology in Northern Sweden that belongs to Umea University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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📣 Finishing your PhD or recently graduated?
Looking to shape your own postdoc project?🧪🌾

Join us for the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists on 28–29 Apr 2026, Umeå, Sweden, and network with the UPSC community!

Learn more and apply: www.upsc.se/early-career...

📅 Apply by 11 Jan 2026
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‼️If you are finishing (or have just finished) your PhD and are exploring postdoc options, this is a great chance to meet people, share ideas, and build links. Come to northern Sweden ❄️🇸🇪 and connect with the community

Message me if you have any questions 📩
🎄✨ Season’s greetings from UPSC!

Looking ahead to the new year - are you an early career plant scientist interested in new research ideas and collaborations?

🌾Apply for the UPSC Early Career Symposium, April 2026!🧪

🗓 Deadline: 11 January 2026

👉 www.upsc.se/early-career...
December 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🎄✨ Season’s greetings from UPSC!

Looking ahead to the new year - are you an early career plant scientist interested in new research ideas and collaborations?

🌾Apply for the UPSC Early Career Symposium, April 2026!🧪

🗓 Deadline: 11 January 2026

👉 www.upsc.se/early-career...
December 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Really enjoyed being part of this #AcademicFreedom workshop. I learnt so much, and it finally filled in the global perspective that was kind of missing. Here is a summary for anyone interested.

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Young academies from four continents gathered in Stockholm - Young Academy of Sweden
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December 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
So much good food! Looks like a wonderful celebration.
Last weekend we celebrated the winter holidays with a Christmas Potluck. From shared experiments to shared meals, gratitude for the teamwork that binds us, and hope for discoveries ahead. Grateful for our team in Umeå and Trondheim 🎄🔬

Our blog entry: www.cellwalldynamics.com/a-christmas-...
A Christmas Potluck: Where Science Meets Spice | Green cell wall dynamics lab
The Cell Wall Dynamics Lab at Umeå celebrated the winter holidays with a Christmas Potluck, where the team's global diversity came together through shared dishes. It was a moment to pause and apprecia...
www.cellwalldynamics.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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🌱 Meet Manju, our new PhD student in the Cell Wall Dynamics team! From the Newah Indigenous community in Nepal🇳🇵 to Umeå, she’ll work on the VR-funded Watchers on the Wall project, using advanced tools to study how plant cell walls sense and respond to stress.
🔗 Read her interview: bit.ly/3JAsZK7
Meet Manju, the PhD student in the Cell Wall Dynamics team | Green cell wall dynamics lab
A short interview with Manju on her background, interests, and plans for exploring how plants sense changes in their cell walls in the
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August 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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🎉 Proud moment for our lab!
PhD student Klaudia Ordyniak won the Best Poster Award at the #SPPSPhD2025 conference for her work on transcription factors ZAT11 & ZAT18 in cell wall integrity 🌿👏
Also cheers to another UPSC colleague, Julie Ducla, for winning Best Presentation! bit.ly/46xCUZZ
September 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
🧪🌾VACANCY - Are you interested in RNA biology and how it shapes tree growth and adaptation?🧬

Join the Peter Kindgren group for a PhD and study how trees adapt their RNA synthesis (transcription) during their life cycle.

Read more:
👉 www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

📆Deadline: 10 Feb 2026

#PlantSciJobs
PhD position in the RNA Biology of trees | slu.se
SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life
www.slu.se
December 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🧪🌾PAPER - How does alternative splicing change protein structure?

Vergara et al. present IsoformMapper, a tool that uses protein structure to compare splice isoforms, enabling functional analysis across biological systems.🧬

Read more in @rnajournal.bsky.social:
rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/32/1...
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A monthly journal publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed research on all topics related to RNA and its metabolism in all organisms
rnajournal.cshlp.org
December 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
🧪🧬NEWS - New Master’s Programme in Bioinformatics @umeauniversitet.bsky.social

Starting autumn 2026, this programme focuses on bioinformatics and data-driven biology, bridging molecular biology and data science, with UPSC involvement.

👉Read more - and feel free to share:
www.umu.se/en/news/new-...
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🧪🌾VACANCY - Are you interested in combining plant physiology, climate science, and modeling?🧬

Join the Kelly Swarts group to study how plants inherit environmentally induced responses to changing conditions.

Read more & apply👇:
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

⏰ Deadline: 10 Feb 2026

#PlantSciJobs
PhD student in physiology and heritable climate adaptation modeling | slu.se
SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life
www.slu.se
December 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Welcome to @umeaplantsciencecentre.se, @jalonsos.bsky.social! We are very much looking forward to working with you!
I’m very happy to share that next year I’m launching the Meristem Hydraulics Group. We will be at the @umeaplantsciencecentre.se (Sweden) & the University of Helsinki (Finland) @helsinki.fi

Here is a brief description of our research interests:
www.upsc.se/juan_alonso_...

#PlantSciences
December 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🧪🌾VACANCY - Looking for a PhD in plant/forest science?

Join the @hanneletuominen.bsky.social group at UPSC & the WIFORCE Research School and investigate nitrogen use efficiency and wood formation in trees!

Read more and apply here👇:
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Deadline: 10 Feb 2026

#PlantSciJobs
PhD position in nitrogen use efficiency and wood formation in forest trees | slu.se
SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life
www.slu.se
December 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
🧪🌾NEWS - Nitrate affects wood development, not just growth

PhD student Anna Renström showed that nitrate specifically affects wood formation and wood properties - adding some of the missing pieces to a better understanding of how trees respond to nitrogen.🔬

Read more:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
December 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🧪🌾REVIEW - What are the functions of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs)?🧬

In this review, Jeky Chanwala, Isabell Rosenkranz & Peter Kindgren provide an overview of recent research and group lncRNAs into broad functional categories.

Read more in Current Opinion in Plant Biology: doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
Redirecting
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December 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
You will likely get much more of fresh cold air in future🌨️❄️!
hello again Umeå! ☃️❄️

I know this isn’t that cold, but coming from 38degC, I’m soaking up as much fresh cold air as possible before returning to the oven of Sydney. 🥵

@umeauniversitet.bsky.social
@umeaplantsciencecentre.se
December 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🌳How do trees know when to grow?🧪🌾

Last week, Maria E. Eriksson @treesandgrowth.bsky.social gave a popular science talk at "Vetenskapslunch" @umeauniversitet.bsky.social about how trees use their internal clock to time growth.

Understand Swedish?
Watch her talk here: www.umu.se/vetenskapslu...
December 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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SAVE THE DATE ! 4th International Congress on Strigolactones - Paris, 5 to 8 October 2026
SAVE THE DATE ! 4th International Congress on Strigolactones - Paris, 5 to 8 October 2026
On behalf of the organizing committee, we would like to cordially invite you and welcome you to the :   4thInternational Congress on Strigolactones (ICS)”, which will be held in Paris, FRANCE, from 5 to 8 October 2026.    All the information about travel, abstract submission, detailed scientific program, and registration is available on the website.   The scientific program features an outstanding lineup of speakers from around the world, covering a wide range of topics related to strigolactones, fascinating specialised metabolites that act both as phytohormones and as key signaling molecules in the rhizosphere.   We kindly ask you to mark the dates in your calendars and help us spread the word about what we know will be an incredible and exciting conference. Please forward this announcement to your lab members and colleagues working in the field of plant hormones, parasitic plants, symbiotic interactions, and any other fields related to strigolactones.   We look forward to welcoming you in Paris!   The local organizing committee ICS Paris 2026 Sandrine Bonhomme (INRAE-IJPB, UPSaclay) François-Didier Boyer (CNRS-ICSN, UPSaclay) Alexandre de Saint Germain (INRAE-IJPB, UPSaclay) Nathalie Hue (CNRS-ICSN, UPSaclay) Sophie Jasinski (INRAE-IJPB, UPSaclay) François Perreau (INRAE-IJPB, UPSaclay) Jean-Bernard Pouvreau (Nantes University, US2B)
ics2026.sciencesconf.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
🔊 Don't miss this chance!🧪

There is still time to apply for the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists in April 2026!🌾

Not sure yet? Check out what this year's participants said and learn more about the event:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

⏰ Application deadline: 11 January 2026
December 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
True Nordic spirit! Looks like a fantastic outing - though some of you seem a little frozen in that outdoor photo.❄️ ☀️
Ice bath before Julbord, enjoying the sun when it is still out! Perfect end of the week with this fantastic group! @siamsadoyle.bsky.social @sharmavinod.bsky.social @rahulpvnewland.bsky.social @absolutemaverick.bsky.social @lorindaloi.bsky.social @loupitgreg.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Proud and honoured to be one of the two laureates of the 2025 Rósen Linné Prize. Warm thanks to all students, PhD students and postdocs who joined me over the years and greatly contributed to our research success. Thanks also to colleagues at UPSC, IJPB and INRAE for their continued support always.
🎉 Congratulations to @cathbell62.bsky.social! 🎉

She has been awarded the Roséns Linnaeus Prize in Botany for her research on plant roots and carbon allocation, and for promoting international collaboration in science, especially the #INUPRAG collaboration.🧪🌾

Read more: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
December 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Registration is now open for Arctic Forum: Food!
📅 2 March 2026
📍 Umeå

Photo: Susanne Jonsson
Arctic Forum: Food
At Arctic Forum: Food, we meet to explore new ways towards resilient societies in the North by sharing meals.
www.umu.se
December 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Are you planning to apply for seed funding, grants, a fellowship, or a targeted call in the near future? This workshop will help make your next application align with the call, persuade reviewers, and present a clear plan rather than a collection of good intentions.

19 December at Umeå University
Writing Workshop for early career researchers
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December 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
🧪🌾Every year, we award the UPSC Agrisera Prize, sponsored by @agrisera.bsky.social.

This year, it honours Junko Takahashi-Schmidt for her outstanding contribution to our Biopolymer Analytical Platform.

👏 Thank you, Junko, for your patience and dedication!

Read more: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
December 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Another STRAMORPH publication by @nowako76.bsky.social on Fluorescence-activated organelle sorting (FAOS) for organelle sorting!
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Illuminating the subcellular maze: fluorescence-activated organelle sorting in plant sciences
We present an overview of how fluorescence-activated sorting enhances plant organelle isolation, showcasing its advantages, recent achievements, and future
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December 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM