Laboratory of Growth Regulators
Laboratory of Growth Regulators has been created in 1995 as a joined facility of the Faculty of Science, Palacký University (www.upol.cz) and the Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences (www.ueb.cas.cz).
Research program of the laboratory is aimed primary at small molecules that regulate cell division cycle, proliferation and growth of both plant and animal cells. Namely cytokinins and cytokinin-derived purine inhibitors of cyclin-dependent kinases belongs to the most intensively studied compounds. The representative of the latter, roscovitine (CYC202, seliciclib), already undergoes phase II clinical trials in patients as a novel anticancer drug held by Cyclacel Ltd (for more information see actual Press Release).
Our multidisciplinary research team is composed of experienced plant physiologists, biochemists as well as organic and analytical chemists. Many students are involved in the research during their pregradual and postgraduate studies of botany, analytical and organic chemistry, biochemistry or medicinal biology, respectively.
Laboratory of Growth Regulators guarantees the teaching for biological study programs. Members of the laboratory give lectures from general botany, plant physiology, microbiology, chemistry, molecular biology, including practical courses and seminars.
Several reseach projects are in progress in colaboration with international partners (University of Berlin, Germany; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden; University of Natal Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; Vienna Medical University, Austria).
Workers
head of the laboratorysenior scientist
- doc. Mgr. Ondřej Novák Ph.D.
senior scientist
scientist
- RNDr. Martin Fellner Ph.D.
- Jiří Grúz
- Doc., Ing. Jan Krekule DrSc.
- Doc. RNDr. Vladimír Kryštof Ph.D.
- RNDr. Miroslav Kvasnica Ph.D.
- Mgr. Marie Kvasnicová
- Ing. Ludmila Ohnoutková Ph.D.
- Mgr. Jana Oklešťková PhD.
- Jiří Pospíšil
- Jitka Široká
- Prof. ing. Miroslav Strnad CSc.
- Mgr. Danuše Tarkowská Ph.D.
- Jiří Voller
scientific assistant
- Michaela Mrvková
- Mgr. Lukáš Spíchal Ph.D.
graduated technical assistant
assistant
- Jitka Hansgutová DiS.
postdoc
- Mgr. Martina Kopečná PhD.
- Aleš Pěnčík
- Lenka Plačková
- Marek Szecówka PhD
- Terezie Urbanová
postgraduate student
maintenance
Research projects
Publications
2019
- JOURNAL OF PLANT GROWTH REGULATION 2019
- PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY 2019
- CURRENT BIOLOGY 29 2743-2750.e5 2019 (External fulltext)
- MOLECULAR PLANT 12 538-551 2019 (External fulltext)
- NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 10 3540 2019 (External fulltext)
- NEW PHYTOLOGIST 223 1420–1432 2019 (External fulltext)
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE NAS OF THE USA 116 6463-6472 2019 (External fulltext)
- MOLECULAR PLANT 12 1499-1514 2019 (External fulltext)
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Multifaceted activity of cytokinin in leaf development shapes its size and structure in Arabidopsis.PLANT JOURNAL 97 805–824 2019 (External fulltext)
- Applied Plant Biotechnology for Improving Resistance to Biotic Stress 1st Edition 2019