Seminars of the Department of Molecular Biology
The seminars take place in seminary room, Institute of Parasitology on Tuesdays at 1 pm.
Seminars - summer semester 2011/2012
21 February Vladimir Kostal - ENTU BC, Ceske Budejovice. Title: Freeze - tolerance in drosophilid files: Implications for development of techniques for cryopreservation of biological material. (contact: I. Sauman)
28 February Roman Hobza - Inst. of Biophysics, Brno. Title: Chromosome-specific genomics. (contact: A. Horak)
6 March Jiri Macas - UMBR, BC AS CR, Ceske Budejovice. Title: A combination of next-generation sequencing, bioinformatic and cytogenetic approaches reveals complex structure of plant centromeres (contact: J. Lukeš)
13 March dr. Mohammed Sajid - Leiden University Medical Centre, Netherlands. Title: Metacaspases and Malaria. (contact: A. Zikova)
20 March Brian Zoltowski - Southern Methodist University, USA. Title: Structure and Mechanism of Animal Cryptochromes. (contact: D. Doležel)
27 March Vítězslav Bryja - Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Brno. Title: Planar cell polarity pathway: a novel regulator of chronic lymphocytic leukemia pathogenesis. (contact: A. Horak)
3 April Pavel Flegontov - Inst. of Parasitology, AS CR, Ceske Budeovice. Title: Reevaluating the green versus red signal in eukaryotes with secondary plastid of red algal origin: Chromera velia as a test case. (contact: J. Lukes)
10 April Ales Horak - BC ASCR, Inst. of Parasitology, Ceske Budejovice. Title: Evolution of parasitism in Apicomplexa. (contact: A. Horak)
17 April Robert Fedic - PentaGen - New diagnostic approaches in genetics, cytogenetics and oncogenetics. (contact: T. Dolezal)
24 April Anna Ajduk - University of Warsaw, Poland. Title: Cytoplasmic movements triggered by fertilization as a novel indicator of embryo quality. (contact: Alexander Bruce)
15 May CANCELLED!!! Adela Jilkova NEW! David Dolezel - title:Circadian and photoperiodic clocks in insects
22 May David Stanek - Inst. of Molecular Genetics, Prague. Title: Surveillance of spliceosomal snRNP assembly in the cell nucieus. (contact: H. Hashimi)
29 May Ronald Micura - Innsbruck University, Austria. Title: Synthetic Manipulation of RNA: On Riboswitch Folding and Ribosome Mechanisms. (contact: H. Hashimi)
5 June Pavel Jungwirth - UOCHB, Prague. Title: Interactions between ions and proteins in water: The Hofmeister series. (contact: J. Lukeš)
Seminars - winter semester 2011/2012
4 October Jordan Ward - University of California, San Francisco, USA. Title: SUMO and combinatorial regulation of transcription. (contact: Masako)
11 October Laurie Read - State University of New York, Buffalo, USA. Title: Essential players in trypanosome RNA editing. (contact: H. Hashimi)
18 October Chris de Graffenried - University of Vienna, Austria, Title: The role of polo like kinase in the biogenesis of the Trypanosoma brucei cytoskeleton. (contact: H. Hashimi)
25 October Bjorn Marcus von Reumont - Research Museum Alexander Konig, Bonn, Germany. Title: Pancrustacean and arthropod evolution using phylogenomic data - pitfalls and promises of transcriptomic data analyses. (contact: Alex Schwarz) - CANCELLED
1 November Miroslav Obornik - Biology Centre of AS CR, Inst. of Parasitology. Title: Evolution of the ornition-urea cycle in photosynthetic diatoms. (contact: M. Obornik)
8 November Marek Biskup - UCLA, California, USA, Title: Kuramoto´s model for synchronization of biological rhytms: what mathematicians know and know less. (contact: Ivo Sauman)
15 November Marek Jindra - Biology Centre of AS CR, Inst. of Entomology, CZ, Title: How Juvenile Hormone Finally Found Its Receptor (after 8 Decades). (contact: M. Jindra)
22 November Jeremy Sternberg - University of Aberdeen, UK, Title: Disease progression in Human African trypanosomiasis: A complex immunological puzzle. (contact: Alexandra Schwarz)
29 November Antoine Royant - European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France. Title: Structure-guided evolution of cyan fluorescent protein. (contact: J. Lazar)
6 December Charalambos P. Kyriacou - University of Leicester , UK. Title: Molecular biology of biological timing: back to nature. (contact: D. Dolezel)
13 December Viktor Zarsky - Inst. of Experimental Botany, Prague. Title: Exocyst tethering complex functions across eukaryotes. (contact: J.Lukes)
EXTRA TERM 14 December Björn Marcus von Reumont - Research Museum Alexander Konig, Bonn, Germany. Title: Pancrustacean and arthropod evolution using phylogenomic data - pitfalls and promises of transcriptomic data analyses. (contact: Alex Schwarz)
10 January David Schneider - Stanford School of Medicine, USA. Title: Resistance and tolerance mechanisms of immune response in Drosophila. (contact: Tomas Dolezal)
17 January Josef Lazar - Biology Centre of AS CR, UNSB, Nove Hrady. Title: Visualizing protein structure and function by two-photon polarization microscopy.(contact: J. Lazar)
Previous seminars
summer semester 2011
22 February: Ian Wood, University of Leeds, UK - Chromatin dynamics and gene regulation in cardiovascular and neuronal diseases (contact: A. Bruce)
01 March: Richard Pokorny, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany - Classical and alternative models of cryptochrome action (contact: D. Doležel)
08 March: Achim Schnaufer, University of Edinburgh, UK - Dyskinetoplastic trypanosomes – how to put tsetse flies, RNA editing, and a couple hundred mitochondrial proteins out of business (contact: A. Zíková)
15 March: Petr Svoboda, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Prague - Rebooting the genome: oocyte-to-embryo transition (contact: H.Hashimi)
22 March: Louis van Zande, University of Groningen, Netherland - Evolutionary Genetics of Asocial Life (contact: D. Doležel)
29 March: Kai Hell, University of Munich, Germany - Biogenesis of mitochondria: Redox-regulated protein import and folding (contact: D. Novotna)
05 April: Robert Sutak, Charles University, Prague - Iron assimilation by marine algae (contact: J. Lukeš)
19 April: Iva Rohousova, Charles University, Prague - Ecology and transmission dynamics of visceral leishmaniasis in Ethiopia (contact: M. Kotsyfakis)
26 April: Jiri Grygar, Institute of Physics, Prague - "The origins of physics, chemistry, and biology, or the Big Bang is the Culprit " (contact: J. Lukeš)
03 May: Michele Crozatier, CNRS/Universite Paul Sebatier, France - Control of the size of the Drosophila haematopoietic niche by Dpp/BMP signaling reveals new parallels with vertebrates (contact: T. Doležal)
10 May: Sarah Bray, University of Cambridge, UK - Decoding the Notch signal (contact: A. Krejčí)
17 May: Alexandra Schwarz, Institute of Parasitology, Budweis - "Detection of low-level infestation of Triatoma infestans in Chagas disease surveillance" (contact: J. Lukeš)
24 May: Peter Bright, Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge, UK - Object processing in the human brain (contact: A. Krejčí)
31 May: Mirka Uhlirova, Universitat zu Koln, Koln, Germany - Modeling human diseases in Drosophila (contact: A. Krejčí)
07 June: Dmitri Maslov, University of California, Riverside, USA - Mitochondrial ribosomes in trypanosomes (contact: J. Lukeš)
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