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...
Scientists from the Biology Centre are enjoying high success rate in this year's competition of the Czech Science Foundation (GACR). The GACR supported 33,1 pct of standard projects and 36,5 pct of applications submitted in junior grants.
Heavy metals in plants, living organisms and in the environment. This currently highly topical research will be performed by top-ranking German scientist Hendrik Küpper and his team at the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences (BC CAS) in Ceske Budejovice. After two years under limited financial conditions, professor Küpper now won a generous grant in the amount of CZK 131.7 million...
The Department of Plant Biophysics and Biochemistry searches candidates for 1 scientist (PhD) with at least 2 years post-doctoral experience. The scientist will pursue research on metal(loid)s in plants and other photosynthetic organisms in terms of biochemistry and biophysics of micronutrient nutrition, toxicity and detoxification. Research will be on the organismic, cell/tissue and...
...Even if they look like. The proof is presented in a new publication of chinese colleagues and dr. Vlasák. Based on extensive screening of morphological features and genetic data, they reorganised fundamentally the taxonomy of brown-rot fungi (polypore fungi), established 6 new genera, and discovered 4 new species of them. Complete description of species, including the identification key,...
Arsenic is highly toxic not only for plants, but also for animals including humans. It naturally occurs in soil in non-lethal concentrations ranging from 0.01 to 3 micromols per litre. However, when its concentration increases to 5 micromols per litre the situation becomes to be serious. The increase can be caused by both human activities (mining, etc.) or natural processes (erosion, floods,...
On May 24-26, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology BC CAS organizes the workshop focusing on theoretical and practical aspects of using next generation sequencing (NGS) data for analyzing repeat composition of plant genomes.
