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Woodheads AB comprises 44 of the world's leading scientists in forest and plant biotechnology. A summary of their research areas are listed below.
Sara von Arnold, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala
Sara von Arnold is Professor at the Department of Plant Biology and Forest Genetics. She is one of the pioneers in the development of techniques used to produce somatic embryos in conifers and she is an internationally respected authority on this subject. Her knowledge and research will be a key factor for the introduction of mass propagation techniques in forest tree seedling nurseries, one of SweTree Technologies' core areas.
Lars Berglund, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Lars Berglund is Professor at Fiber and Polymer Technology, the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm and leading the research group of Wood and Biobased Composites. The group does research on wood and composites reinforced with materials produced by nature together with Professors Tuula Teeri and Harry Brumer at the department of Wood-Biotechnology, also at the Royal Institute of Technology. Berglund will in the future be an important player in development of new cellulose based composites, one of STT's core areas in the fiber modification business.
Rishikesh Bhalerao, Umeå Plant Science Center
Rishikesh P. Bhalerao is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU, Umeå. His research area is the regulation of wood formation by environmental and hormonal factors. Possible applications of this research lies in the area of increased biomass production were Bhalerao's identification of novel dormancy controlling factors can be the basis for increasing the growth period and thereby the biomass production, one of STT's core areas.
Kristina Blomqvist, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala
Kristina Blomqvist, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Plant Biology and Forest Genetics, SLU, Uppsala and works partly in Professor Tuula Teeri's group at the department of Wood-Biotechnology at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Her research area is in the discovery of new enzymes important for cell wall formation in connection to sugar metabolism. Applications include tools to change the chemical properties of wood.
Harry Brumer, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Harry Brumer is an Associate Professor at the Laboratory of Wood Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Dr. Brumer has a multidisciplinary research history in the fields of synthetic carbohydrate chemistry, carbohydrate enzymology and protein mass spectrometry. In addition to continued work in fundamental enzymology, one aspect of Dr. Brumer's present research involves the application of enzymes and polysaccharides to cellulose surface fictionalization. This field has vast application potentials, for pulp, paper and packaging industries as well as for the pharmaceutical industry, a core area for SweTree Technologies fiber modification business.
David Clapham,Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) , Uppsala
David Clapham is an Associate Professor at the Department of Plant Biology and Forest Genetics, SLU, Uppsala. His research interests are in the genetic modification of lignin and of flowering age in Norway spruce and in cold tolerance in conifers. Dr. Clapham is also an expert on spruce transformation which is of outmost importance for STT´s ambition to establish superior spruce lines for northern Europe. Applications of Dr Claphams research also include the development of frost hardy conifer seedlings with improved lignin composition. He is further involved in adapting the procedure for somatic embryogenesis in Norway spruce for large scale commercial application
Ulf Edlund, Organic Chemistry, Umeå University
Ulf Edlund is Professor in organic chemistry specializing in NMR-spectroscopy. He is also pro-rector at Umeå University with a responsibility for external contacts. Edlund's research interest is focused on structure-property relationships of biomolecules studied by various spectroscopic techniques. A major area concerns the use of various multivariate techniques to reduce information from complex spectral data such as metabolic profiles. Applications of Edlund's research include advanced chemical characterization of wood, pulp and paper properties, an important part of STT's platform for wood analysis, FuncWood Explorer.
Peter Engström, Uppsala University
Peter Engström is Professor of Plant Physiology at Uppsala University. His research is focused on the transcriptional regulation of growth and development in plants, and includes work on the model flowering plant Arabidopsis, as well as the conifer Norway spruce. Prof. Engström is world leading in the study of genes controlling flower development in conifers. Applications include the development of early flowering or non-flowering conifer trees, both extremely important for the introduction of transgenic conifers and fcore activities for STT.
Maria Eriksson, Umeå Plant Science Center
Maria Eriksson is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University. She is interested in the circadian clock and bud dormancy. She is studying the expression of clock genes with an effect on photoperiodical time keeping with a special interest regarding induction of bud set and the development of bud dormancy in hybrid aspen. Possible applications of Eriksson's research include the development of tools to control the length of the growing season in trees, an important parameter for increasing the growth period of trees and thereby biomass production.
Mats Eriksson, Umeå Plant Science Center
Mats Eriksson is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University. His research is focused on the regulation of gene and protein expression in plants during adaptation to iron deficiency. As a model-system, he is using the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. A basic understanding of the factors controlling gene expression in plants is very important for future applications of forest biotechnology.
Christiane Funk, Dept. of Chemistry and Umeå Plant Science Center.
Christiane Funk is Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Umeå University. She was recently awarded a research position from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Her research area is the acclimation of plants and cyanobacteria to different stress conditions (light stress, senescence) with emphasis on the role of proteases. Her research deals with the basic mechanisms on how plants can cope with harsh environments. Funk´s research can lead to the development of tree seedlings with improved tolerance to various environmental stresses, an important part of STT´s core business.
Per Gardeström, Umeå Plant Science Center
Per Gardeström is Professor in Plant Physiology at the Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University. His research area is plant metabolism with main emphasis on respiration in relation to photosynthesis and leaf senescence. A central aspect of his research is metabolic flexibility in plants, which is an essential component of stress tolerance. A better understanding of the senescence process can also make it possible to increase plant yield by extending the period of active photosynthesis.
Markus Grebe, Umeå Plant Science Center
Markus Grebe is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU, Umeå. His research area is the establishment of cell polarity and the contribution of sterols to this process. His group focuses on the Arabidopsis root epidermis as a genetic and cell biological model system. Dr. Grebe's research is of basic importance for our understanding of how plant growth and development can be modulated. The establishment of polarity, one of Grebe's research interests, is an important factor for elongation-growth and will thereby generate knowledge of direct importance for STT ambition to increase the length of the wood fiber.
Petter Gustafsson, Umeå Plant Science Center
Petter Gustafsson is Professor in Plant Molecular Biology at the Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University and is presently chairman of Umeå Institute of Technology and the R&D committé of BioFuel Region. Prof. Gustafsson has been the dean of the faculty of science and engineering at Umeå universiry and a board member of the Swedish Research Council for Engineering Sciences and he was a co-founder of the pharmaceutical start-up company Symbicom AB, acquired in 1995 by ASTRA-Zeneca. He has been a member of the advisory board (forskningsberedningen) of the Swedish government in science issues. His research area is photosynthetic genes and their regulation. Gustafssons basic research is important for our understanding of how photosynthesis affects, for instance, the hardiness of tree seedlings and frost damage in the early spring.
Vaughan Hurry, Umeå Plant Science Center
Vaughan Hurry is Professor in Plant Physiology at the Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University. His research interest includes the acclimation of photosynthetic carbon metabolism to unfavorable growth conditions, with an emphasis on the interaction between the production of compatible solutes and novel stress-induced proteins. This research can be applied to increase tree biomass production and wood properties as well as improve the cold tolerance of seedlings and mature trees. Hurry's research will be of great importance for the future of clonal forestry in northern Europe.
Jan-Erik Hällgren, Umeå Plant Science Center
Jan-Erik Hällgren is Professor in Tree Physiology at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU, Umeå and currently Dean of the Faculty of Forestry Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He has been secretary general of the Swedish Council for Forestry and Agricultural Research for six years. His research interests are physiological and molecular protection mechanisms in trees against abiotic stresses. Applications of this research include the development of trees with increased tolerance to cold and drought.
Pär Ingvarsson, Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Umeå University
Pär K. Ingvarsson is a Senior Research Fellow at the Swedish Research Council and working at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University. His research is focused on the ecological and evolutionary genetics of adaptations in natural plant populations. His research is readily applied in the development of more efficient tree breeding strategies using molecular markers. Ingvarsson is one of the most promising Ecologists in Sweden and his competence is of outmost importance for many of STT's core areas such as impact of clonal forestry and introduction of transgenic trees.
Stefan Jansson, Umeå Plant Science Center
Stefan Jansson is Professor in Plant Cell and Molecular Biology at the Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University. His main field of research is photosynthetic light harvesting in plants. He also works in the Poplar genome program with gene regulation in the leaf, ecophysiology and bioinformatics. Application of Jansson's research includes the development of stress-resistant trees and trees with a prolonged growing season, important topics for STT.
Jan Karlsson, Umeå Plant Science Center
Jan Karlsson is a Researcher at the Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University. His main research focus is on functional genomics of pathogenesis in trees. He is also responsible for the bioinformatics platform at Umeå Plant Science Center. This research on pathogens is very important for STT since it can be applied in the development of tree seedlings that are resistant to attacks from fungi and insects.
Barbara Karpinska, Department of Botany, Stockholm University
Barbara Karpinska is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Botany, Stockholm University. Her main research interest lies in the regulation of lignin metabolism in woody tissues of trees. Applications involve the development of trees with a reduced or improved lignin composition that will improve the efficiency of the pulp and paper industries. This is of great interest to STT since trees with reduced lignin content is expected to be the first major transgenic products on the international market.
Stanislaw Karpinski, Department of Botany, Stockholm University
Stanislaw Karpinski is Professor in Plant Molecular Physiology at the Department of Botany, Stockholm University. His main field of research is the role of reactive oxygen species in regulation of the photosynthetic processes in plants. In addition his aim is to unravel signaling cascades for acclimatory processes in response to fluctuating environmental conditions, e.g. stress induced by high light and chilling temperatures. Applications from this line of research include the development of new methods for growing seedlings in tree nurseries and the development of frost and stress tolerant trees, important issues for STT's business.
Leszek Kleczkowski, Umeå Plant Science Center
Leszek A. Kleczkowski is Professor at the Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University. His research area is regulation of genes and proteins essential for formation of precursors to plant carbohydrates. The main applications derived from this research may involve the development of improved tree seedlings with altered carbohydrate content/composition for abiotic stress tolerance.
Joakim Lundeberg, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Joakim Lundeberg is Professor in Molecular Biotechnology and has been the Director for the KTH Genome Center since 1998. The facility includes DNA sequencing, genotyping and array instrumentation with access to state of the art technology such as the 454 gene sequencing platform. Lundeberg has also been the co-ordinator for expression profiling efforts within the WCN program in functional genomics since 2002. His research area is in molecular technology with a focus to develop and apply methods for large-scale genome and transcript analysis. Lundeberg is member of HUGO and Swedish Biochemical and Molecular Biology Society, and he is a co-founder of Magnetic Biosolutions and Sedna Biotechnologies. Lundberg's competence is important for STT's ambition to be a high profile biotechnology company.
Eva Malmström, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Eva Malmström is a Professor within the Division of Coating Technology at the KTH Fiber and Polymer Technology. Her research activities are focused on the synthesis of polymers with various macromolecular architectures. She works on dendritic polymers (dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers) and on "controlled" polymerization techniques. Applications involve the development of new tree fiber based polymers for the pulp and paper industry that can for instance be used to develop new composite materials, core areas for STT´s fiber modification activities.She is a PI in the SSF center BioMiMe.
Ewa Mellerowicz, Umeå Plant Science Center
Ewa Mellerowicz is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU, Umeå. She is working on the wood cell wall formation and wall biosynthetic and modifying enzymes. She is responsible for the microscopy core facility. Applications of her research involve the development of improved trees with increased growth and improved chemical properties of the wood. She has already developed Poplar trees which give an improved pulp with a lower kappa number. Mellerowicz is a world class expert on wood structure and therefore of outmost importance for STT's internal gene finding program.
Thomas Moritz , Umeå Plant Science Center
Thomas Moritz is Professor in Plant Physiology at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU, Umeå. He is working within the field of hormone regulated growth in plants. The research has been focused on the gibberellins compound group, looking at both analytical chemical and biotechnology aspects. The last years he has devoted time to develop metabolomic analysis. He is heading the WCN metabolomics facility at UPSC. His research has lead to the development of trees with improved growth and biomass production, coupled to an increase in the average wood fiber length, all of significant interest to the pulp and paper industries. Moritz is probably the best in the world on analysis of metabolites in plants and therefore an important person for STT's platform for wood analysis, FuncWood Explorer.
Ove Nilsson, Umeå Plant Science Center
Ove Nilsson is a plant molecular biologist and is Professor in Plant Reproductive Biology at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU, Umeå. Nilsson is heading the National Swedish Program for Plant Development funded by the Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) as well as the "UPSC Centre for Forest Biotechnology" which in 2006 was selected as one of four Berzelii centers to receive 10 years of support from the Swedish Research Council (VR) and the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA). His research area is the control of flowering, with a special emphasis on the genes controlling flowering time in trees. Applications of this research involve the development of early flowering trees as a tool for conventional breeding. It also involves the development of non-flowering trees as an enabling technology for future plantations of genetically modified trees, core areas for STT.
Peter Nilsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Peter Nilsson is an associate professor in biotechnology at the Dept. of Gene technology and Dept. of Proteomics, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. After his PhD in 1998, he has been responsible for setting up and running the DNA microarray core facility at the KTH Genome Center. He is also responsible for the production of the Poplar and Arabidopsis microarrays and more recently also for the development and production of various antibody and protein microarrays. Techniques developed in his group can be used to develop and analyze molecular markers for improved tree breeding programs.
Torgny Näsholm, Umeå Plant Science Center
Torgny Näsholm is Professor in Plant Physiology at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU, Umeå. His work deals with plant nutrition, specifically nitrogen uptake and assimilation in plants. Recent, important discoveries concern the role of organic nitrogen compounds in natural, as well as in agricultural settings. Applications involve the development of new management and fertilizer regimes for forest seedling nurseries, the development of new environmentally friendly herbicides and new methods to improve the nutrient uptake of plants. Näsholm's ability to combine world-class science with development of practical applications for forestry is a major asset to STT.
Igor Rojdestvenski, Umeå Plant Science Center
Dr. Igor Rojdestvenski is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University. His research interests are mathematical modeling in photosynthesis, theoretical biology and visualization of molecular biological data collections in VRML environment. His research can be applied in order to visualize all data describing the complex interactions that govern the growth and development of a tree.
Mark Rutland, School of Chemistry, KTH
Mark Rutland is a Professor in the Division of Surface Chemistry, Chemistry, KTH and currently the recipient of a Science Council Research fellowship. His research is centered on surface interactions with special emphasis on friction and adhesion - notable is the development of super slippery surfaces. Applications involve the development of new fiber-derived coatings and composites for the pulp and paper industries, important areas for STT´s fiber modification business. His applied research on surface properties of biofibres stretches across a broad spectrum of relevance, including textiles, papermaking and deinking, into the world of psychophysics - where surface properties of for example paper and cotton are mapped in terms of our ability to perceive them.
Göran Samuelsson, Umeå Plant Science Center
Göran Samuelsson is Professor in Plant Physiology and chairman of the department of Plant Physiology at Umeå University. He is also the directors of the Umeå Plant Science Centre. His research area is in algal photosynthesis with emphasis on the carbon accumulating mechanism, oxygen evolving mechanism and protein transport. Professor Samuelsson has been a member of the Natural Research Council's biology committee. Applications of his work involve the development of new efficient protein production systems in plants and the development of trees with increased wood density.
Anita Sellstedt, Umeå Plant Science Center
Anita Sellstedt is a Professor at Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University. Her research area is dealing with bioenergy; hydrogenases in Frankia and ethanol production with the aid of rot-fungi. She is also doing research on the association between feather mosses and cyanobacteria. She is a member of the IEA-Annex 21, dealing with hydrogen research. She has a patent together with her PhD student Marie Holmgren on ethanol production using the fungi mentioned above.
Staffan Sjöberg, Inorganic Chemistry, Umeå University
Staffan Sjöberg is Professor in Inorganic Chemistry. His research area is aquatic chemistry with a focus on the chemistry of the solid-water interface comprising modeling chemical speciation and molecular level characterizations of systems of relevance to environmental and industrial processes. Applications include advanced chemical characterization of wood, pulp and paper properties. Sjöberg has been a titular member for many years within IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) and has had different commisions within NFR and VR. Sjöberg has contributed with several innovations that have been further developed by the Swedish forest industry.
Michael Sjöström, Organic Chemistry, Umeå University
Michael Sjöström is Professor in organic chemistry and with chemometrics as speciality. Chemometrics,comprizes multivariate data analysis and statistical experimental design for solving problems in chemistry and related research areas. In particular, he is interested in multivariate calibration problems, quantitative structure activity relationships and bioinformatics. Applications of his researchare a prerequisite for the analysis of all the biological and chemical parameters that are involved in controlling the properties of wood, pulp and paper. Sjöström's competence is important for STT's gene discovery program where large data quantities have to be evaluated.
Fredrik Sterky, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Fredrik Sterky is an Associate Professor and group leader in forest biotechnology and bioinformatics at the School of Biotechnology at KTH. His research focus is on EST sequencing and bioinformatic analysis of genomic data. His work also involves strategies for large-scale proteomics, i.e. production of specific antibodies for selected target proteins. These techniques are very important for the identification of new genes controlling commercially important traits in trees.
Åsa Strand, Umeå Plant Science Centre.
Åsa Strand is an Associate Professor at the Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University. Her research focuses on revealing the molecular and genetic components that enable communication between plastids and the nucleus. Applications of her research involve the development of trees with improved tolerance to various stresses, such as cold and drought. Strand was recently awarded a six-year grant from the Foundation for Strategic Research as one of the most promising young researchers in Sweden and is therefore a tremendous asset to STT.
Björn Sundberg, Umeå Plant Science Center
Björn Sundberg is Professor in Forest Plant Physiology at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU, Umeå. He is without competition the world-leading authority on the physiology and genetics of xylogenesis and wood formation, using both conifers and angiosperm trees for his studies. Currently, poplar is used as the major model species. Prof. Sundberg is deputy chairman of the IUFRO Working Party of Forest Biotechnology and is leading a national graduate school in wood and fiber sciences. Applications from his research involve the development of trees with novel wood and fiber properties that can be tailored to the needs of the end user.
Tuula Teeri, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Tuula Teeri is Professor in Wood Biotechnology at the Royal Institute of Technology. She is also a board member of the Swedish Foundation of Strategic Research and the Bo Rydin Foundation. Prof. Teeri is presently director of the Strategic Research Center for Biomimetic Fiber Engineering. Her research is focused on enzymatic degradation, biosynthesis and engineering of wood fiber materials. Applications of her research involve the development of enzymes and polysaccharides as tools to functionalize cellulose surfaces. The technology has broad potential for applications not only in the pulp and paper and packaging industries, but also in the biopharma sector, all central for STT's fiber modification business.
Hannele Tuominen, Umeå Plant Science Center
Hannele Tuominen is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physiology, Umeå University. She has expertise in the fields of wood formation in trees, plant cell death, plant hormones and signal transduction. Her current research is focused on programmed cell death during wood formation and on modification of wood properties in poplar. Her research can be applied to develop trees with an increased wood density.
Mathias Uhlén, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Mathias Uhlén is Professor of Microbiology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. Dr Uhlén is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science (IVA), the Royal Swedish Academy of Science (KVA) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). Mathias Uhlén serves on the board of directors of Biotage AB, Skanditek AB, KTH Holding AB, Atlas Antibodies AB, Affibody AB and Magnetic Biosolutions AB as well as SweTree Technologies. His record as an innovator in many different biotechnical fields, both scientifically and commercially in Swedish biotechnology, is unparalleled during the last 20-25 years. Thus, he is a tremendous asset to STT.
Gunnar Wingsle, Umeå Plant Science Center
Gunnar Wingsle is Professor in Plant Physiology at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU, Umeå and is currently head of the PhD education within Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC). His research is focused on free radicals and their role in regulation and function in plants, mainly Poplar and Pine. One novel area were the impact of radicals has been demonstrated by his research is in the lignification processes. This research can be applied to develop trees with a reduced or improved lignin composition for the pulp and paper industries or for forest plantations producing bioenergy.
Lars-Olof Öhman, Inorganic Chemistry, Umeå University
Lars-Olof Öhman is Professor in Inorganic Chemistry and is the study director for the Master of Engineering program in Engineering Chemistry at Umeå University. His research area is aquatic chemistry with questions of both academic and industrial nature. Prof. Öhman is a world leading expert within the field of aquatic aluminum chemistry. Within this area, and the areas of modern bleaching and metal management in the closed pulp mill, he cooperates with several of the Swedish pulp and paper companies. His innovative research linked to pulp and paper properties is very important for STT.
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