Friday 19th October – Sunday 21nd October 2018, Penzion Mauritz, Bela, Nova Pec

Organizer: Tomáš Doležal 
Academics: Tomáš Doležal, Hassan Hashimi, Adam Bajgar, Petr Nguyen, Magda Zrzavá, Iva Mozgová, Miroslav Oborník, Alena Ziková, Alena Krejčí, Alex Bruce, Aleš Horák

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PROGRAM OF EVENTS AND PRESENTATIONS

Friday 19.10.

15:00 ARRIVAL AND ACCOMMODATION 
16:50 WELCOME NOTE by Tomáš Doležal

17:00-18:00 PRESENTATIONS
17:00  Gergana TALEVA  - Bioenergetics of bloodstream from T. brucei - searching for the source of mitochondrial ATP
17:20  Minal JAIN -  Identifying the F0F1-ATPase alpha subunit protease in T. brucei
17:40  Michaela KUNZOVÁ - Signalling molecules involved in the RBP6 induced in vitro differentiation of T. brucei 
18:00  Shaghayegh SHEIKH - Factors involved in T. brucei mitochondrial morphology  

18:20-19:20 DINNER – “GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER”

19:20-20:40 PRESENTATIONS
19:20  Vendula Rašková  - A novel bacterial cell division protein ZapE and its role in the mitochondrion of Trypanosoma brucei
19:40  Sneha KULKARNI - Exploring the physiological role of queuosine tRNA modification in parasitic protist T. brucei
20:00  Binnypreet KAUR - The mitochondrial genome structure and arrangement across diplonemids
20:20  Ambar KACHALE - Non-stop Blastocrithidia

20:40 - ?  FREE TIME “GET TO REALLY KNOW EACH OTHER”

Saturday 20.10. 

8:30 – 9:30 Breakfast

9:30 - 10:30 PRESENTATIONS
9:30  Invited postdoctoral speaker: Michalina KAZEK - Trehalose and selfish immune system
(project „Rozvoj JU – Mezinárodní mobility“ reg. č. CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/16_027/0008364)

9:50  Pavla NEDBALOVÁ - “Ado system” in activated immune cells in Drosophila
10:10 Gabriela KREJČOVÁ - Adipose tissue remodeling in Drosophila as a model for obesity-induced insulin resistance studies in mammals 

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:00 PRESENTATIONS
11:00  Valentina MAGNIN - Mitochondrial dysfunction in Drosophila eye
11:20  Nirav THAKKAR - Functional analysis of circadian genes in Pyrrhocoris apterus and Drosophila melanogaster 
11:40  Magdalena KANIEWSKA - Neuropeptides in the seasonal clock of the linden bug 

12:00-13:30 Lunch – student discussion 
13:30 -15:30 free afternoon

15:30-16:30 PRESENTATIONS 
15:30  Justína VALCHÁŘOVÁ  - Telomere compensation mechanism in social insects
15:50  Laura Ávila ROBLEDILLO  -  Centromeres: one feature to rule them all (?) 
16:10  Deepika KALE -  Overexpression studies of S. cerevisae K+ translocating membrane protein TRK1 in Pichia pastoris 

16:30-17:00 Coffee break

17:00-18:00 PRESENTATIONS
17:00  Pablo BORA - Beyond the inner cell mass; a p38-MAP kinase story
17:20  Giorgio VIRNICCHI - Wwc2 in oocyte development
17:40  Rebecca COLLIER - Molecular dissection of blastomere positioning and cell fate in the preimplantation moms embryo

18:10-19:30  Dinner

19:30-21:00 WORKSHOP with Tomáš Mozga - Life after PhD

21:00 - ?  FREE TIME 

Sunday 21.10.

8:30 – 9:30 Breakfast

9:40-10:40 PRESENTATIONS
 9:40  Tomáš KONEČNÝ - Role of PRC2 in developmental and non-developmental processes in Arabidopsis thaliana 
10:00  Helena MONDEKOVÁ - Epigenetic regulation of photoautotrophy - role of PRC2 in development and metabolism in green eukaryotes
10:20  Petra SKOTNICOVÁ - The cyanobacterial protoporphyrinogen oxidase HemJ is a new b-type heme protein functionally coupled with coproporphyrinogen oxidase 

10:40-11:10 Coffee break 

11:10-11:50 PRESENTATIONS
11:10  Jan HÁJEK - How does the length of the fatty acid moiety affect the lipopeptide cytotoxicity and its entry into the cell membrane
11:30 Marek PAZDERNÍK - Function of the C-terminal transmembrane domain of the plastid-type ferrochelatase

11:50-12:30 CONCLUDING REMARKS, voting for the best presentation
 WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT

12:30-13:30 LUNCH
14:00 THE END

Winners of the best presentation:

1st Valentina Magnin

2nd Ambar Kachale

3rd Pavla Nedbalová

Doctoral Student Seminar Rules

Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (KMG)

11 July, 2022

The rules apply from the Winter semester 2022/2023

PREAMBLE: Giving annual seminars is a formal requirement for you getting a doctoral degree at the University of South Bohemia. However, as formalities go, we think it is quite useful for the following reasons:

1. So that you have practice presenting your project in English in a format similar to an international conference.
2. So that you can train for your final defense talk
3. So can gain experience and confidence in public speaking
4. So that your peers can see what you are doing
5. So that faculty members can see what you are doing
6. So that you can get useful feedback on your projects
7. To build a sense of community among all the members of our department

In order to do this, we will have reserved sessions for students to present during the department seminars and a yearly retreat. We ask that you cooperate with the organizer(s) of these seminars so that we can achieve these goals together.

If you approach this as only a formality, that is fine with us. But you are still expected to fulfill this requirement.

RULES:

1.  Every doctoral student must give once an academic year (October to June of next calendar year) a presentation in English about their project. This applies for all students, regardless of whether they entered the PhD program in the summer or winter semester. Please see dedicated section for summer students below.
2. You are expected to give the seminar in the same semester that you have signed up to give the seminar in STAG, either the winter or summer semesters.
3. The autumn student retreat (usually in October) or during the department seminars in places reserved for student talks
4. If you intend on giving your required seminar on the autumn retreat (which I highly recommend), please sign up to give your seminar in the winter semester.
5. You will be given an exact date of your seminar, as you will be sorted to groups by your area of study. This is because we would also like the board members of the specific area of study to attend your seminar, so it is easier for them to join (in person or via Zoom).
6. No matter what department you are associated with, always enroll in a course KMB 805 to obtain the credit for presenting. We organize your presentations in one common format, so that members of the Integrative biology program board and other students of Integrative biology can meet you and see your presentations. So if you want to present in the given semester, you all please sign for KMB805 (not with other code).
7.  There are no exceptions to the rules, every student is obliged to present once per academic year.  Please keep in mind that you are responsible to fulfill this obligation every year and that there are no exceptions and no other ways how to fulfill it (e.g. presenting at labmeetings or at you departments) – this obligation is associated with the PhD program and not with a department. 

RECOMMENDATION: If you are not sure when you will give your seminar and in what capacity, I suggest that by default you sign up for the winter semester. In exceptional cases when you do not succeed in to fulfill this requirement, you can cancel this subject for the winter semester (PENALTY MAY APPLY) and sign up for the giving the talk in the summer semester.

For students starting their doctoral studies in the summer: your requirement for giving the PhD talk will start in the next academic year (i.e. you beging your studies in summer 2020, so your requirement will start in the winter semester of 2020). This to synchronize all the student’s requirements so that everyone can better keep track of them .

Talk format:

 1. 12 minutes, strictly enforced, plus 5 minutes science discussion and 3 minutes feedback

             a. Remember this rule of thumb: 1 slide per minute

 2. The student talks are for a general audience:
- Choose a simple story line from your project
- Not everyone in the department knows about the details of your project, so please try to give the RELEVANT background so that people will understand that simple story
- Do not try to put ALL your data into the presentation but only what is relevant to that simple story
- This is a challenging task, but it has been accomplished

 3. You are expected to stay for all the talks in your session and not just your own, so please plan to stay for the whole duration of the session (or retreat).

Disclaimers about the seminars:

1. Provided title talks for posting are final, so please DO NOT request title changes after you have submitted them as we have limited capacity to make these changes.

2. Of course, you can rename the talks as you please, but it will not be updated in the postings

Organizer of PhD student seminar: Lenka Chodáková (email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Michaela Kunzová (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).