6th Annual PhD Retreat of the Department of the Molecular Biology and Genetics
Friday October 14 th – Sunday October 16 th 2022 - Penzion Mauritz, Bělá, Nová Pec
Organizers: Tomáš Doležal, Lenka Chodáková
Academics: Adam Bajgar, Alena Bruce-Krejčí, Tomáš Doležal, Hassan Hashimi, Aleš Horák, Eva Horáková, Jaroslava Lieskovská, Petr Nguyen, Michael Wrzacek, Julia Krasensky-Wrzaczek
Invited speaker: Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz
Friday 14.10.
from 15:00 ARRIVAL AND ACCOMMODATION (little refreshment will be ready)
17:00 WELCOME NOTE by Tomáš Doležal
17:10-18:50 PRESENTATIONS
17:10 Adam Zeiner CRK2 - bridge between symplastic and apoplastic pathways
17:30 Rebecca Collier The role of Tead4 in apical domain regulation in the preimplantation mouse embryo
17:50 Alyssa Fontanilla Epigenetic stability and transposon activity in somatic and reproductive aging
18:10 Mansi Sharma Redox signaling to chromatin during stress responses in plants
18:30 Tereza Kalistová The influence of salycilic acid on cuticle formation and its involvement in plant immunity and growth
19:00-20:00 DINNER – “GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER”
20:00- 21:00 Student discussion
Saturday 15.10.
8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:40 PRESENTATIONS
9:00 Daniela Prokopová Post-encephalitic syndrome in patients with TBE and its effect to sleep disorders
9:20 Veronika Prančlová Molecular and inter-cellular interactions during TBEV replication
9:40 Eliška Kotounová Role of viral NS1 protein during pathogenesis of tick-borne encephalitis
10:00 Miriama Pekľanská Study of mosquito physiology and its factors determining vector competence for transmission of pathogenic diseases
10:20 Imen Mekki Non-coding RNAs in tick-host interactions
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:20 - 13:00 PRESENTATIONS
11:20 Dorsaf Ennaceur Candidate transport proteins for guanine in Chromera velia
11:40 Geetha Gonepogu Dynamics and Isolation of Guanine Crystals from Chromera velia
12:00 Shun-Min Yang Mitochondria targeting histone in Chromera velia
12:20 Satish Nandipati Comparative metabolic study of transcriptionally active Euglenozoa from marine sediments
12:40 Jhonny Hernandez Orozco Collagen – a novel inducer of plant immunity
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00 -15:30 free time
15:30 – 16:15 Invited lecture – Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz - Vector microbiota, a source of new targets for transmission-blocking vaccines
16:15-16:50 Coffee break
16:50-18:50 PRESENTATIONS
16:50 Magdalena Kaniewska Sex determination in the linden bug Pyrrhocoris apterus
17:10 Ping Chen Insect taiman gene evolution
17:30 Karolína Svobodová Nutritional supplement with antiviral properties for honeybees
17:50 Pavla Nedbalová Origin of adenosine released by Drosophila melanogaster activated immune cells
18:10 Gabriela Krejčová Macrophage-induced silencing of insulin signaling is an adaptive strategy for lipoprotein mobilization upon bacterial infection
18:30 Matěj Miláček Action of species-selective juvenile hormone receptor agonists on insect development
19:00-20:00 Dinner
20:00-21:00 Interview – Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz
Sunday 16.10.
8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast
9:00-10:40 PRESENTATIONS
09:00 Sadanand Gupta Characterization of individual PsaA and PsaB assembly intermediates of Photosystem I in Synechocystis 6803
09:20 Divya Aggarwal Binding of chlorophyll to ferrochelatase maintains active Photosystem II during cold stress
09:40 Saverio Rana Response of the unicellular diazotrophic cyanobacterium Cyanothece to phosphorus limitation
10:00 Andela Kuvelja Manganese and zinc priming of Capsicum annuum against Botrytis cinerea: photosynthesis; maintenance localised metal accumulation and metabolic changes
10:20 Anna Wysocka The role of cyanobacterial membrane protein ssr0332 in the biogenesis of Photosystem I
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:40 PRESENTATIONS
11:00 Pragya Tripathi Unusual composition of the mitochondrial pyruvate dehydrogenase complex from the widespread marine protist group diplonemids
11:20 Vendula Rašková Characterization of PAM related proteins in Trypanosoma brucei
11:40 Michaela Kunzová ROS is not just SOS: role of reactive oxygen species in metabolic remodeling during Trypanosoma brucei differentiation
12:00 Jonathan Wong Inner mitochondrial membrane biogenesis in Trypanosoma brucei
12:20 Prashant Chauhan Assembly factor mtSAF24 in the biogenesis of small mitoribosomal subunit in trypanosomes
12:45-13:00 CONCLUDING REMARKS, voting for the best presentation
WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT, GROUP PHOTO
13:00-14:00 LUNCH
14:00 THE END - departures
Winners of the best presentation:
Gabriela Krejčová
Veronika Prančlová
Daniela Prokopová
