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