International collaboration:

• Professor Avi Golan-Goldhirsh, Albert Katz Department of Dryland Biotechnologies, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,Israel

• Professor Peter Schroeder, Department of Microbe Plant Interactions, GSF- National Research Center for Environment & Health, Neuherberg, Germany

• Associated Professor Jing Song, Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, P.R. CHINA

• Dr. Jean-Paul Schwitzguebel, Laboratory for Environmental Biotechnology (LBE), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, SwitzerlandDr. André Gerth, BioPlanta GmbH, Leipzig, Germany

• Professor Martin Mihaljeviè, Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Mineral Resources, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague , Czech Republic

• Associated Professor Stanislav Smrèek, Department of organic and nuclear chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

• Associated Professor Vladimir Koci, Department of Environmental Chemistry, ICT Prague, Czech Republic

• Associated Professor Zdenìk Kafka, Department of Environmental Chemistry, ICT Prague, Czech Republic

• Dr. Jana Punèocháøová, Department of Environmental Chemistry, ICT Prague, Czech Republic

• Dr. Miroslav Griga, Department of Plant Biotechnology, Agritec Ltd., Šumperk, Czech Republic

• Dr. Jana Malá, Department of Biology and Breeding, The Forestry and Game Management Research Institute, Jílovištì - Strnady, Czech republic

• Dr. Jaroslava Ovesná, Department of Molecular Biology, Crop Research Institute, Prague, Czech Republic

• Dr. Petr Petøík, Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

• Encarnasion Lopez Maseda (3 months, started in 2013. Spain. Supervisor Soudek). Ecotoxicological tests (seeds germination) and experiments testing the degradation of organic compounds. Participate on project COST TD1107 and KONTAKT LH11048.

• Janire Villanueva Díaz (3 months, started in 2013. Spain. Supervisor Rezek) 2D gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. Sample preparation, liquid-liquid extractions, green leaf volatiles trapping, and various techniques of sample introduction into the system using Gerstel MultiPurpose Sampler. Participates on projects TAÈR TA01020744 BIOPLAST.

• Ignacio Manuel Rodriguez Valseca (3 months, started in 2013. Spain. Supervisor Soudek). Protein extraction and purification and heavy metal determination by AAS. Participate on project COST TD1107.

• Angelo Sicilia (3 months, started in 2014. Italy. Supervisor Petrová). Ecotoxicity test and sampling of soil at brownfield. Participate on project COST FP1204.

• Antia Perez Mouriz (3 months, started in 2014. Spain. Supervisor Langhansová). In vitro culture techniques, sample extractions for HPLC analyses and mRNA isolation. Participate on project COST MP1206 and KONTAKT LH 12165.

• Sunil Abeyasekera (3 months, started in 2015. UK. Supervisor Petrová). Sampling of soil at brownfield, antioxidative enzymes assay. Participate on project COST FP1204.