8th Annual PhD Retreat of the Department of the Molecular Biology and Genetics

Friday October 11

From 15:00      ARRIVAL AND ACCOMMODATION 
17:00                 WELCOME NOTE by Tomáš Doležal

 17:10-18:50     PRESENTATIONS

17:10     Nathalia Ballesteros Chitiva   Ribosome profiling: Tool to characterize the translation of the alternative genetic code in Blastocrithidia nonstop

17:30      Pancholi Puranjaya  Blastocrithidia nonstop as an in vivo model to study the translation of reassigned genetic code

17:50      Michala Boudová    The role of MICOS in mitochondrial development in Trypanosoma brucei

18:10      Dorsaf Ennaceur  Candidate guan(os)ine transporters in Chromera velia

18:30      Marie Pažoutová    Blastocystis and the rat gut: Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic study of Blastocystis-colonized rat gut

19:00-20:00     DINNER
From 20:00      Tomáš Mozga – EMBO Fellowships

Saturday October 12

8:00-9:00              BREAKFAST
9:00-10:40            PRESENTATIONS

9:00     Miriama Pekľanská   Elevated developmental temperatures below the lethal limit reduce Aedes aegypti fertility

9:20     Enrico Bullo    In silico analisys of circadian clock proteins

9:40     Matěj Miláček    New role for juvenile hormone in the unique Drosophila development

10:00   Tereza Dolejšková     Impact of juvenile hormone signaling on the immune competence

10:20   Panalee Petcharat    Ectotherms surviving winter: Lipidomic remodeling in Drosophilids during cold exposure

10:40-11:20          COFFEE BREAK
11:20-13:00          PRESENTATIONS

 11:20   Jonathan Wong   Biogenesis of inner mitochondrial membrane protein complexes in Trypanosoma brucei

11:40   Fadel Fakih     Role of the shortening of the anticodon stem of methionine tRNA in AUA to methionine reassignment

12:00   Max Pendlebury     New perspectives on protein import, structure and maintenence across the mitochondrion of Trypansoma brucei

12:20   Shun-Min Yang    Localization of heme biosynthesis in the complex plastid of diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum

12:40   Orsola Iorillo   Evolution of the spliceosome in Euglenozoa: Insights from the model diplonemid Paradiplonema papillatum

13:00-14:00          LUNCH
14:00-15:30          FREE TIME

15:30-16:15          INVITED LECTURE                 “My research”
RNDr. Lenka Caisová, Ph.D.
Mgr. Ivan Kulich, Ph.D.

16:15-16:50          COFFEE BREAK
16:50-18:50          PRESENTATIONS

 16:50      Daniel Štipl     Regulation of chlorophyll biosynthesis and its relationship to the biogenesis of Photosystem II in cyanobacteria

17:10      Ondřej Nykles   Possible mechanism of early tetrapyrrole regulation in cyanobacteria

17:30      Saverio Rana    Exploring the phosphorus limitation in marine diazotrophic cyanobacterium Cyanothece ATCC51142

17:50      Debashrita Mishra    Charaterization of biogenic monoamines and their role in Tetrahyemena

18:10      Satish Chandra Reddy Nandipati   Occurrence of tRNAs with short anticodon stem (AS) in bacteria

18:30      Prashant Chauhan   Structural insight into early assembly steps of the small

mitoribosomal subunit biogenesis in Trypanosoma brucei

19:00-20:00 DINNER
From 20:00             Discussion - Scientific integrity

Sunday October 13

8:00-9:00              BREAKFAST
9:00-10:40            PRESENTATIONS

9:00     Adam Zeiner   CRK2 - gateway to the intercellular communication

9:20     Sharma Mansi   Redox signaling to chromatin during stress responses in plants

9:40     Tahereh Sohrabi   Mechanistic basis for the PA-dependent control of plasmodesma localization of RLKs

10:00   Surbhi Sharma    Unlocking the secrets: How FtsH find its place and purpose

10:20   Triet Le Minh   Molecular determinants of large ovarian reserve in naked Mole-rat Heterocephalus glaber

10:40-11:20      COFFEE BREAK
11:20-12:40      PRESENTATIONS

11:00   Kgalaletso Othibeng Computational metabolomics to study the metabolism of plants

11:20   Sunita Jindal     Receptor-like protein kinase-mediated regulation of plasmodesmal communication in Arabidopsis

11:40   Julia Krasenski-Wrzaczek    CRK2 regulates sugar transport in Arabidopsis thaliana

12:00   Quentin Rivere   Chromatin states in green microalgae

12:20   Vanesa Puente     Endosymbiosis in Trypanosomatids

12:40-13:00          CONCLUDING REMARKS
Voting for the best presentation
Winner announcement
Group photo

13:00-14:00          LUNCH
From 14:00           DEPARTURES

Winners of the best presentation:

Tereza Dolejšková

Adam Zeiner

Daniel Štipl