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.
In addition to genes, DNA of every organism possesses also several hunderds, thousands, or more copies of usually short and non-coding regions - so-called repetitive sequences. How many repetitive sequences can be within individual species or taxon, how evolution is acting on these repeats, and why is the repetitive DNA so abundant? These were the questions which were examined by the...
How exactly can metals induce the oxidative stress in plants? Dr. Filis Morina from Plant biophysics and biochemistry department sheds light onto this problem on 11th May at 13:45 in B1 lecture room (Faculty of Science).
Till 7th May the registration is open for workshop targeting the using of the next generation sequencing (NGS) data for analyzing repeat composition of plant genomes. The workshop will be held on 23-25th May at the Institute of Plant Molecular Biology - Biological centre CAS. Special emphasis will be ginven to the methods implemented in the RepeatExplorer pipeline (including practical...
On Tuesday, 18th April at 10:30, the scientific seminar of the Institute of Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB) will be held concerning transcription factors of hop, modification of hop genome and the research of hop viroids. Seminar takes place in board room of IPMB and will be replenished with photo-tour to India and small Indian refreshment. More information in the program [PDF] ....
The project of this PhD student aims at extending the understanding of mechanisms of the regulation of photosynthesis for nitrogen fixation in Trichodesmium , for more realistic estimation of the productivity of the oceans. This marine, filamentous, diazotrophic cyanobacterium has a particularly fast regulation of photosynthesis. Phycourobilin isoforms turned out to be the key players in the...
To the collection of new viruses we discovered ( five in 2015 , one last year) , a new one has been added now. It belongs to the group of odd viruses, which do not posses capsid (proteinous envelope - like a bacteriophage on the ilustrative picture above). This feature is so unusual within viruses that this group is called "naked viruses". Naked viruses attack different species...
Last year we revealed a lots of details about the principles of the life on the Earth. We discovered that even in some unicellular algae there are photosystems spacially separated, contrary to previous assumptions. These algae can then better regulate the saving light energy from the Sun. In the previous years we discovered a novel type of centromeres in...
Department of plant biophysics and biochemistry is looking for 2 PhD students and 1 technical-support scientist. The details can be found in PDF-specifications below. - Technical-support scientist (PDF) - deadline 28th February - PhD student, regulation of photosynthesis for nitrogen fixation in Trichodesmium (PDF) - the position will be filled once the evaluation committee has...
