Scientists at the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences (BC CAS) have discovered a new plant virus that severely impacts the yield of certain strawberry cultivars. To combat this emerging threat, they've developed a diagnostic kit capable of swiftly and accurately detecting the virus. This kit allows detection of the virus already in seedlings, effectively preventing the spread of the...
After 16 years in Finland and 3 years at the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Michael Wrzaczek answers questions about what it is like to be a foreigner at a Czech research institute or what challenges came with his position as Director of the Institute of Plant Molecular Biology.
Training school for working with metaloproteins will be held from 17th to 19th July on IPMB - BC AV ČR for members of PLANTMETALS COST Action.
Iva Mozgová's research group at the Institute of Plant Molecular Biology is now hosting four postdoctoral fellows funded by the MSCA postdoctoral fellowship programme. Ahamed Khan and Mingxi Zhou have been MSCA fellows since April 2021. In January 2023, they were joined by the ERA Fellow Rafał Krela (MSCA postdoctoral fellowship for widening countries) and Fatemeh Aflaki with an MSCA-CZ...
Renowned plant biologist Jiří Friml presented his latest findings on the role of the plant hormone auxin in plant life in his welcome lecture at the Biology Centre CAS (BC). Jiří Friml is a leading figure of the project MOLIPEC: Molecular Life of Plants ERA Chair that started at BC at the beginning of January 2023. Thanks to the MOLIPEC project, the ERA Chair in plant molecular biology funded...
As part of a joint project , researchers from the Czech Republic and Norway are not only looking for new strawberry and raspberry viruses. They are also screening the existing ones, identifying their vectors and developing methods by which it would be possible to obtain and preserve healthy, virus-free seedlings for future generations. These days, Norwegian investigators visited their Czech...
A research centre of excellence focused on the molecular life of plants will be established at the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Thanks to a European grant in the ERA Chair program, the Biology Centre will establish two new research groups in plant molecular biology, strengthen plant research and appoint a six-member International advisory board led by the renowned plant...
An international team including scientists from the Biology Centre in České Budějovice and Institute of Experimental Botany in Olomouc provided the first comprehensive insight into the genome architecture of plants with holocentric chromosomes. Their results were published in the prestigious journal Cell.
In June 2022, the team of the Laboratory of Molecular Signaling has received new member: Dr. Francisco J. Colina from Spain. For his research in the Czech Republic, Dr. Colina received a prestigious EMBO fellowship, intended for excellent young researchers from Europe and around the world. For two years, Dr. Colina will investigate how plants adapt their development to the environment and stress.
On May 24 th - 26 th , the tenth year of a scientific workshop was held at the Biological Centre CAS dealing with practical issues and approaches to the analysis of repetitive sequences in plant and animal genomes. It was specifically focused on the RepeatExplorer program , developed in previous years by the team of Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics to analyze such parts of...
