Friday October 11th – Sunday October 13th 2019 - Penzion Mauritz, Bělá, Nová Pec

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Organizers: Tomáš Doležal, Lenka Chodáková

Academics: Adam Bajgar, Alexander W. Bruce, Tomáš Doležal, Hassan Hashimi, Alena Krejčí, Iva Mozgová, Petr Nguyen, Zdeněk Paris, Roman Sobotka

PROGRAM OF EVENTS AND PRESENTATIONS

Friday 11.10.

15:00 ARRIVAL AND ACCOMMODATION (little refreshments will be ready)
17:00 WELCOME NOTE by Tomáš Doležal

17:00-18:20 PRESENTATIONS
17:00 Gabriela Krejčová - The role of macrophages in adipose tissue remodelling in Drosophila
17:20 Pavla Nedbalová - S-adenosylmethionine cycle as a source of extracellular adenosine during immune response in Drosophila mleanogangster
17:40 Ambar Kachale - A tale of UGA
18:00 Anna Nenarokova - Causes and effects of C-NHEJ loss. DNA repair and the genomes of parasites

18:30-19:20 DINNER – “GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER”
19:30-21:00 Discussion with a guest
21:00 - ? FREE TIME

Saturday 12.10.

8:30 – 9:30 Breakfast

9:30 - 10:50 PRESENTATIONS
9:30 Laura Ávila Robledillo - Evolutionary dynamics of satellite DNA in plant genomes
9:50 Tihana Vondrak- Characterization of repetitive arrays by bioinformatic analysis in ultra-long nanopore reads of species Lathyrus sativus
10:10 Tomáš Konečný - Role of PRC2 in regulation of light signaling during photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana
10:30 Naseem Samo - Role of PRC2 in embryo-to-seedling phase transition in Arabidopsis by focusing on metabolism

10:50-11:25 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:50 PRESENTATIONS
11:30 Justina Koubová - From telomeres to lifespan regulation in social insects
11:50 Štěpánka Tomková - An insight into the Flavivirus enigma
12:10 Guillem Miguel Pascual Aznar - The Ssl2148 protein, a component of the CP47 assembly module of Photosystem II in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803
12:30 Sirisha Killi - Transformation of Chromera velia and isolation of nuclei from Vitrella brassicaformis

12:50-13:50 Lunch – student discussion
13:50 -16:30 free afternoon
16:30-17:00 Coffee break

17:00-18:40 PRESENTATIONS
17:00 Pablo Bora - Role of p38-MAPKs in mammalian blastocyst maturation
17:20 Rebecca Collier - Blastomere positioning and cell fate derivation in the preimplantation mammalian embryo
17:40 Martina Stiborová - The role and function of WWC2 protein in early embryonic development
18:00 Serafim Nenarokov - Using machine learning algorithms in phylogenetics
18:20 Monika Wisniewska - Phylogenomics analyses of ten transcriptomes of secondarily free-living diplomonads

18:40-19:30 Dinner

19:30-20:50 PRESENTATIONS
19:30 Vyara Ganeva - Exploring antigenic disguises and immune evasion strategies of Sphaerospora molnari
19:50 Ayush Sharma - Evolutionary history and structure of Chromera velia
20:10 Michaela Kunzová - Role of ROS in mitochondrial metabolic rewiring during Trypanosoma brucei differentiation
20:30 Nina Sheikh - Investigating the role of MICOS in the absence of cristae in Trypanosoma brucei
20:50 - ? FREE TIME

Sunday 13.10.

8:30 – 9:30 Breakfast

9:30-10:50 PRESENTATIONS
9:30 Pavla Šnebergerová - Proteolytic enzymes in Babesia and their potential as drug targets
9:50 Magdalena Kaniewska - Temperature entrainment of the circadian clock in the linden bug Pyrrhocoris apterus
10:10 Irena Provazníková - rDNA cluster evolution within the order Lepidoptera
10:30 Shun-Min Yang - Are histones in mitochondria of Chromera velia

10:50-11:20 Coffee break

11:20-12:00 PRESENTATIONS
11:20 Valéria Juricová - The molecular interactions between Hemistasia phaeocysticola and its prey
11:40 Vijaya Geetha Gonepogu - The allelopathic interactions between chromerid algae

12:00-12:45 CONCLUDING REMARKS
- voting for the best presentation
 - WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT
 - group photo

12:45-13:30 LUNCH
14:00 THE END - departure

Winners of the best presentation:

1st Tihana Vondrak

2nd Shun-Min Yang

3rd Michaela Kunzova

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