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...
For plants, the only source of energy for all life functions is the light of our Sun. Transformation of light into a form usable by plants is ensured by the so-called light-harvesting complexes within plant chloroplasts. However, if there is too much light, these complexes could be damaged. Scientific teams from the Centre Algatech in Třeboň, the Faculty of Science of the University of South...
Which viruses are harmful to strawberries and raspberries? What are the ways to protect the plants, and how can healthy seedlings be grown and kept? These are some of the questions the scientists and growers from the Czech Republic and Norway have set out to answer. The results of a three-year international project, coordinated by virologists from the Biology Centre CAS, will not only help...
One hundred and seventy-one experts from 36 countries are involved in the international network of researchers "Metabolism of trace metals in plants" PLANTMETALS, which focuses on metals in plants and is funded by the European COST program (CA19116, www.plantmetals.eu). These days, from 24 to 27 August 2021, the project members were meeting for the first time at the joint introductory...
The Czech Science Foundation (GACR) appreciated the extraordinary scientific results targeting plant centromeres, obtained by the Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics under the leadership of Jiří Macas.
For the ninth time, scientists from all over the world will practicise to analyze repetitive DNA sequences from the Next generation sequencing. How to do that in the RepeatExplorer program will be tought by the staff of the Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics from the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology - Biological Centre of the CAS, who developed the mentioned program and the...
Ahamed Khan and Mingxi Zhou are two postdoctoral researchers who succeeded with their project proposals in a competitive European call for MSCA Individual Fellowship. A total of 11,573 proposals were submitted in response to the call H2020-MSCA-IF-2020. Only 21 MSCA fellowships were awarded to the Czech Republic, two of them go to the Biology Centre CAS.
