Heavy metals are necessary for all organisms, however only in certain small concentrations. Higher or lower concentrations of heavy metals can be problematic or even toxic. How plants can deal with them and how this knowledge can be used for the benefit of human and environment in the future investigates research team of prof. Hendrik Küpper.
Bacteriophages can be used as natural, biological weapon against some bacterial diseases of crops, for example potato canker. Laboratory of Plant virology of IPMB investigates such a possibility in the newly granted NAZV project and offers Bc or MSc theses work named "Selection, purification and molecular characterisation of bacteriophages specific to Dickeya sp. and...
The hop contains several compounds usable in medicine - some of them have also anti-cancerogenic activities. Their concentration in the hop (or a beer) is however very low. Scientist from Biology centre CAS has now discovered a promising way, how to change it.
Seminar Transposable element annotation in animal genomes, from mosquitoes to chickens by dr. P. Arensburger ( Cal Poly Pomona, USA) will be held on 2nd October in 1 p.m. at Parasitology institute II (PaU Animal Facility), new lecture room, 2nd floor Dr. P.Arensburger realises his Fullbright stipendium on the Molecular cytogenetics department (J. Macas) of IPMB.
We offer one post-doc position (ideally long-term) in the laboratory of plant biochemistry and biophysic. Interested candidates should apply no later than 1 October 2018 - for details, see the PDF-file below.
The 7th RepeatExplorer workshop on the Application of Next Generation Sequencing to Repetitive DNA Analysis will be held in Institute of Plant Molecular Biology - Biology centre CAS on May 22-24. The 45 scientists from Europe, USA, Brasil, China or Russia will be trained in newest trends in analysis of repetitive DNA and utilisation of RepeatExplorer a Tarean...
Institute of plant molecular biology offers one scientific and two general/lab technician positions. Scientific position: plant virology department, post-doc (deadline 10.3.) - details General / lab technician: plant virology department (deadline 14.3.) - details plant biophysics and biochemistry (deadline 15.3.) -...
Three new viruses were discovered by the team of virologists from the Biology centre inside fungus Sodiomyces alkalinus. Not only they comprise a rather unusual combination of viruses, these three are also the first viruses found in filamentous fungi growing in an extremely alkaline environment.
Mini-symposium on metals in photosynthetic organisms aimed at bringing together existing and (potential) future members and cooperation partners on the KOROLID grant will be held on August 17-19 at Institute of Plant Molecular Biology. Registrations and "last minute" poster contributions are still welcome on e-mail Hendrik.Kuepper@umbr.cas.cz , preferably till 6th August....
Libor Grubhoffer will be a new Director of the largest scientific institution in South Bohemia - Biology Centre (BC) CAS. On Monday, June 26, he was appointed by the president of the Czech Academy of Sciences Eva Zažímalová. His term of office is five years and begins on July 1, 2017. Libor Grubhoffer replaces Miloslav Šimek, who has been in charge of the institution since 2012.
