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Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics

Seminars

  • Invited Speaker Seminars (see below for current schedule)
  • Presentations by PhD students of the programmes "Molecular and Cellular Biology and Genetics" and "Integrative Biology" (in KMB 805, current schedule below) - seminar rules
  • Presentations of Master's students (within KMB 180 - guarantor Dr. Aleš Horák)



Winter semester 2024/2025 - link to full seminar schedule here

Invited by Date Speaker
Petr Kopáček, Jan Kotál February 11
Prof. Barend Johannes (Ben) Mans
Integrating Tick Taxonomy, Systematics and Comparative "Omics" Research


Hassan Hashimi January 28
Anne Daebeler
TBA
Hassan Hashimi January 14
Priscila Peña-Diaz
Fe-S cluster assembly in an amitochondriate protist  
Julius Lukeš November 26
Pavel Baranov
Genetic Code as an example of "a biological law"
Alexander Bruce November 12
Katerina Komrskova
MAIA, the human-specific oocyte ligand, facilitates gamete membrane fusion
Tomáš Doležal October 18
Gabriel Demo
Ribosome structure and function



Summer semester 2023/2024 - link to full seminar schedule here

Invited by Date Speaker
Marek Jindra April 23
Ing. Vojtěch Ledvina, Ph.D.
EastPort Praha
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PhD student seminar April 30
Michaela Husová (Alena Zíková)

Ping Chen (David Doležel)
PhD student seminar May 7
Pavla Šnebergerová (Dan Sojka)

Štěpánka Tomková (Zdeněk Franta)

Dominika Tučková (Pavel Hrouzek)

Jakub Opelka (Hana Sehadová)
PhD student seminar May 21
Anastasiia Kolomiiets (Josef Elster)

Saverio Rana (Ondřej Prášil)

Mansi Sharma (Michael Wrzaczek)
PhD student seminar May 28
Simona Koutková (Petr Nguyen)

Monika Hospodářská (Petr Nguyen)

Marie Pažoutová (Martin Kolísko)

Serafim Nenarokov (Martin Kolísko)
Tomáš Doležal June 4
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Schirmeier (née Limmer)
Metabolic flexibility of the nervous system
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PhD student seminar June 11
Orsola Iorillo (Drahomíra Faktorová)

Israa Kamal (Alena Zíková)

Ayyüce Sever (Alena Zíková)

Šárka Podlahová (Hana Sehadová)
PhD student seminar June 25
Enrico Bullo (David Doležel)

Aliya Noreen (Dalibor Kodrík)





Winter semester 2023/2024 - link to full seminar schedule here


Summer semester 2022/2023  - Link to full seminar schedule here

Invited by Date Speaker
David Doležel February 23 - FRIDAY!
Charalambos Kyriacou 
Magnetic field effects in Drosophila
PhD student seminar January 30
Kristýna Hovorková

Rebecca Collier 

Pavla Nedbalová

Naseem Samo
Alena Panicucci Zíková January 25 - THURSDAY!
Prof. Ariel Silber
Proline, a “metabolic pocket knife” for the dangerous lifestyle of the human parasite Trypanosoma cruzi

PhD student seminar January 23
Kristýna Brožová 

Eliška Kotounová 
Novel antibodies against tick-borne encephalitis virus non-structural protein 1

Veronika Prančlová 
Neuroinflammation in tick-borne encephalitis

Jarmila Štěrbová
PhD student seminar January 16
Alyssa Malapit Fontanilla 

Monika Hrubá 
Meiotic recombination in moths and butterflies

Marta Vohnoutová 
Marek Jindra January 9
prof. Zdeněk Dvořák
Ligands of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor: facts and myths
PhD student seminar December 19

Monika Wiśniewska 
The story of Cryptosporidium proliferans

Jonathan Wong 

Miriama Pekľanská 
Mosquito as a potential vector of Lyme disease. 

Jovana Majstorović
December 12
Meeting of the department
PhD student seminar December 5
Vijaya Geetha Gonepogu 

Shun-Min Yang 

Michaela Kunzová 

Andela Kuvelja
Tomáš Doležal November 21
Josef Lazar
New genetically encoded probes of cell signaling
Michaela Fencková November 7
Veronika Poláková Vymetálková
From adenoma to colorectal carcinoma: Where we are now?
Alexander Bruce October 17
Katarzyna Filimonow and Roberto De La Fuente
Link between extracellular matrix (ECM) and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in the mouse periimplantation embryo
The RUNT-related transcription factor RUNX1 accompanies primitive endoderm lineage segregation within the ICM during mouse blastocyst formation
Iva Mozgová October 10
Jakub Žárský
On the origin of land plants

Winter semester 2022/2023 - link to full seminar schedule here

Invited by Date Speaker group
Iva Mozgová October 4
Frédeŕic Berger
When parental conflict leads to extreme unequal parental genome expression in the embryo
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Michael Wrzaczek October 11
Hirofumi Nakagami 
Evolution of NPR proteins: salicylic acid receptors                        
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Petr Nguyen October 18
James R. Walters 
Lepidopteran Evolutionary Genomics: Sex Chromosomes & Sperm Proteomes
Habilitation pedagogical lecture November 1
Alena Panicucci Zíková
Mitochondrial ATP synthases: fascinating multifaceted nanomotors

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Hassan Hashimi November 8
Marcus Keller
Regulation of lipid diversity in mitochondrial membrane lipid metabolism
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PhD student seminar November 15
Ayush Sharma (Obornik lab) - via Zoom
Complex origin of chromerids and apicomplexans plastids
Monika Wisniewska (Kolisko lab)
Kristýna Pospíšilová (Marec lab)
Molecular mechanism of sex determination in the codling moth, Cydia pomonella
Alena Panicucci Zíková November 22
Alexander  Mühleip
Molecular mechanisms of cristae formation in human parasites
Lenka Gahurová November 29
Daniel Rozbeský
Molecular mechanisms of semaphorin-plexin signalling
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Tomáš Doležal December 6
Michaela Fencková
Habituation and Drosophila for better understanding and treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders
Alena Zíková December 13
Catarina Gadelha
Quantitative cartography of gene silencing across trypanosome genomes in vitro and in the host                                                                             
Petr Nguyen December 20
Filip Kolář
Tracing footprints of parallel adaptation in Arabidopsis genomes

PhD student seminar January 10
Bankatesh Kumar (Paris lab) 
Impact of Queuosine-tRNA modification on Leishmania mexicana infectivity
Shaghayegh Sheikh (Hashimi lab)
The crista-shaping MICOS complex of trypanosomatids contains two cryptic mitofilin-domain proteins
Bulah Chia-hsiang Wu (Žurovec lab)
Silk proteins of Ephestia kuehniella, the Mediterranean flour moth
Martina Bohuslavová (Bruce lab)
The effect of the cavity size and p38-MAPK signalling in lineage specification of mouse blastocysts
Lenka Gahurová January 17
Jan Nevoral 
Versatile role of Sirt1 histone deacetylase in reproduction
Lenka Gahurová January 24
Radoslav Janoštiak 
The molecular mechanisms of CDK4/6-mediated regulation of E2F8 and its role in regulation of cell proliferation and invasiveness
PhD student seminar February 7
Kristýna Brožová (Jirků lab)
Jovana Majstorović (Holzer lab)
Tomáš Konečný (Mozgová lab)
Alexander W. Bruce February 14
Tomáš Vomastek
Regulation of cell polarity and migration by the ERK signaling pathway
Petr Nguyen February 21
TBA
Michaela Fencková May 2
Martin Schwarzer
NODding to growth: How Lactiplantibacillus plantarum WJL supports mouse juvenile growth during chronic undernutrition

Summer semester 2021/2022

Date Speaker Group
PhD student seminar March 1
Tihana Vondrak
Centromeric tandem repeat analysis in holocentric plant Rhynchospora pubera
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Andela Kuvejla
Photosynthetic activity and element distribution in Capsicum annum leaves infected with Botrytis cinerea under different Mn and Zn supply
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Saverio Rana
C and N metabolisms and their impact on ecological significance of unicellular diazotrophic cyanobacteria
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March 29
Heribert Hirt
One planet - one health: how soil, agriculture, human and planetary health are interconnected
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April 19
Helena Fulková
Embryonic nucleoli: atypical organelles with an atypical function
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April 26
Alastair Gardiner
The Intra-Cytoplasmic Membrane From Phototrophic Bacteria
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May 10
Kateřina Rohlenová
Endothelial plasticity and metabolic communication in pathological angiogenesis
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PhD student seminar May 17
Monika Kreklová
Drivers of sex-chromosome turnover
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Martina Hejníčková
W chromosome enriched sequences in P. rhomboidaria (Lepidoptera)
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Valéria Juricová
The molecular mechanism of the predation of bacterivorous diplonemids
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Ping Chen
Insect taiman gene evolution
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May 31
Arne Sahm
Deciphering the molecular causes of exceptional aging phenomena in the animal kingdom by applying multi-omics
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PhD student seminar June 7
Samo Naseem
Role of Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) during seedling emergence
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Michaela Husová
Mapping the mitochondrial metabolism of bloodstream form Trypanosoma brucei
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Enrico Bullo
Characterization of binding and tau-altering domains in Drosophila melanogaster Timeless protein (TIM), using 2-Hybrid Assay
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Pavla Šnebergerová
Plasmepsin-like aspartyl proteases in Babesia
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Courses

Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics

Courses

List of courses offered by the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics taught in English

Number Name Semester Credits Guarantor

Undergraduate courses

     
KMB 182 Departmental Seminar both 2 'doc. Mgr. Hassan Hashimi, Ph.D.'
KMB 215 Bioinformatics Project winter 8 'prof. Ing. Miroslav Oborník, Dr.'
KMB 219 Introduction to Cell Biology winter 2 'doc. Mgr. Tomáš Doležal, Ph.D.'
KMB 223 Techniques of microscopy and image analysis for biologists summer 5 Mgr. Hana Sehadová, Ph.D.'
KMB 358 Introduction to Genomics summer 3 'Dr. Alexander William Bruce, Ph.D.', 'Mgr. Aleš Horák, Ph.D.'
KMB 605 Introduction to Bioinformatics summer 6 'prof. Ing. Miroslav Oborník, Dr.'
KMB 758 Molecular Biology and Genetics I winter 3 'Dr. Alexander William Bruce, Ph.D.'
KMB 770 Methods in Molecular Biology winter 4 'Mgr. Lenka Chodáková, Ph.D.'
           

Graduate courses (Master and Ph.D. level)

     
KMB 182 Departmental Seminar both 2 'doc. Mgr. Hassan Hashimi, Ph.D.'
KMB 217 Methods of Functional Genomics summer 5 'RNDr. Vladimír Beneš, CSc.', 'Mgr. David Doležel, Ph.D.'
KMB 218 Epigenetics winter 3 'Mgr. Petr Svoboda, Ph.D.'
KMB 223E Techniques of microscopy and image analysis for biologists summer 5 Mgr. Hana Sehadová, Ph.D.'
KMB 602E Advanced methods of molecular biology 2 summer 4 Mgr. Lenka Gahurová, Ph.D.', RNDr. Alena Panicucci Zíková, Ph.D.,
KMB 618 Epigenetics and regulation of gene expression summer 5 'Mgr. Lenka Gahurová, Ph.D.'
KMB 622 Scientific Writing for Experimental Biologists winter 5 'doc. Mgr. Hassan Hashimi, Ph.D.'
KMB 613 Bioinformatics for biologists summer 5 'Ing. Petr Novák, Ph.D.'

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Doctoral studies

Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics

Integrative biology

Integrative Biology PhD programme brings together fields of biology that use similar methodological approaches from the areas of molecular and cell biology, molecular to organ physiology and biochemistry, immunology, infectious biology, proteomics, genetics and genomics, supported by bioinformatics and mathematical modelling. The programme covers molecular cell and developmental biology and physiology in mouse and insect models, plants and unicellular organisms, molecular phylogenetics, evolutionary cytogenetics and molecular integrative physiology and immunology with selected biomedical problems.

For students


Integrative biology - areas of study

  • Molecular and Cell Biology

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  • Evolutionary Molecular Biology and Genetics

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  • Physiology and Developmental Biology of Animals

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  • Molecular Biology and Plant Physiology

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  • Infection Biology and Immunology

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In our program we have more than 50 PhD students, half of whom are from abroad. Students participate in cutting-edge science projects; their work has recently appeared for example in eLife and Current Biology journals (see Research Achievements). Students benefit from the excellent facilities of the faculty and several institutes of the Academy of Sciences, they have access to one of the best-equipped centers of electron microscopy in the Czech Republic, confocal microscopes, metabolomic and proteomic centers (there is for example “Bruker Daltonics timsTOF Pro“ equipment for proteomics, which is unique in Central Europe). Students can choose from a variety of courses and each week attend a departmental seminar presented by invited speakers. Once a year we organize Departmental Retreat for PhD students, which is a great opportunity to present their work and meet for the whole weekend in a very informal atmosphere. Every year we organize for students Image Competition.

Current information for prospective students

Deadline for application: January 20nd 2024, official interviews with board members January 22nd - 26th 2024 - read more about application rules
Applicants should first find a mentor, please look at current openings or contact the mentor directly (only with specific interest, general emails with the application are not considered).

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Bachelor studies

Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics

Bachelor studies

Our department participates on bachelor-level international program Biological Chemistry with the following courses in English:

KMB/219  Introduction to Cell Biology (guarantor and lecturer: doc. Mgr. Tomáš Doležal, Ph.D.)
Mandatory and the first course of the second year of the program held in České Budějovice, taught in block of 4 days usually the third week of September (the very first week of the second academic year). The goal of this course is to introduce students to molecular basis of life and describe the cell as a basic unit of life. Course will build on the historical aspects of discoveries leading to our current knowledge in genetics, molecular and cellular biology and explore the molecular mechanisms behind development and evolution.

KMB/770  Methods in Molecular Biology (guarantor: Mgr. Lenka Chodáková, Ph.D.)
Mandatory practical laboratory course taught in one-week blocks during the 2nd and 3rd week of the second academic year (usually the last week of Septemebr and the first week of October). Students are introduced to the practice of basic methods of molecular biology as nucleic acid isolation, PCR, electrophoresis, cloning and sequencing.

KMB/758  Molecular Biology and Genetics I (guarantor and lecturer: doc. Alexander William Bruce, Ph.D.)
Mandatory winter-semester course introducing students into molecular biology of the cell. Basic molecular biology mechanisms in cells will be reviewed and overview of applications of molecular biology techniques will be given.

KMB/605  Introduction to Bioinformatics (guarantor: prof. Ing. Miroslav Oborník, Ph.D.)
Mandatory summer-semester course introducing students into techniques and applications of the bioinformatics in the molecular-biological and biochemical research as well as in the biotechnology.

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Research groups USB

Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics

Research groups USB

  • Laboratory of Early Mammalian Developmental Biology (LEMDB)

    head of the group Alexander Bruce

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  • Laboratory of Molecular Integrative Physiology in Drosophila

    head of the group Tomáš Doležal

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  • Laboratory of Bee Biology

    head of the group Alena Krejčí

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  • Dmel macrophages squad

    head of the group Adam Bajgar

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  • Laboratory of Neurogenetics

    head of the group Michaela Fencková

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  • Developmental Epigenetics and Bioinformatics Laboratory

    head of the group Lenka Gahurová

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Associated research groups at the institutes of Academy of Sciences

Institute of Parasitology

  • Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Protists

    (Julius Lukeš)

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  • Laboratory of Functional Biology of Protists

    (Alena Panicucci Zíková)

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  • Laboratory of RNA Biology of Protists

    (Zdeněk Paris)

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  • Laboratory of Evolutionary Protistology

    (Miroslav Oborník)

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  • Laboratory of Environmental genomics

    (Aleš Horák)

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  • Laboratory of Molecular Ecology and Evolution

    (Jan Štefka)

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  • Laboratory of Molecular Ecology of Vectors and Pathogens

    (Ryan Rego)

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  • Laboratory of Arbovirology

    (Martin Palus)

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  • Laboratory of Genomics and Diversity of Protists

    (Martin Kolísko)

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  • Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Ticks

    (Jan Perner)

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  • Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Physiology of Mosquitoes

    (Marcela Nouzová)

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  • Laboratory of Veterinary and Medical Protistology

    (Martin Kváč)

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  • Laboratory of Parasitic therapy

    (Kateřina Jirků)

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Institute of Entomology

  • Laboratory of Developmental Genetics

    (Marek Jindra)

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  • Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics

    (Petr Nguyen)

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  • Laboratory of Molecular Chronobiology

    (David Doležel)

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  • Laboratory of Microscopy and Histology

    (Hana Sehadová)

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  • Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics

    (František Marec)

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  • Laboratory of Molecular Genetics

    (Michal Žurovec)

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  • Laboratory of Telomere Research

    (Radmila Čapková Frydrychová)

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Institute of Plant Molecular Biology

  • Plant Biophysics and Biochemistry

    (Hendrik Küpper)

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  • Plant Epigenetics

    (Iva Mozgová)

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  • Photosynthesis

    (Radek Litvín)

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  • Molecular Cytogenetics

    (Jiří Macas)

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  • Plant Molecular Signaling

    (Michael Wrzaczek)

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  • Plant Virology

    (Igor Koloniuk)

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Institute of Microbiology - ALGATECH – The Centre of Algal Biotechnology

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