Laboratory of Virology
Research areas of the laboratory:
Understanding and management of plant viral diseases
· Study of molecular properties of plant viruses by immunological and molecular biological methods
· Genome mapping of plant viruses, viral isolates and phylogenetic analysis
· Preparation of polyclonal antibodies against recombinant viral structural and nonstructural proteins for investigation of virus life-cycle
· Virus detection using antibodies- and/or DNA/RNA-based methods (LAMP, RT-LAMP, PCR, RT-PCR, qPCR)
Biotechnological utilization of plant viruses
· Design of plant viral vectors based on several RNA and DNA plant viruses
· Adaptation of plant viral vectors to GoldenBraid cloning system
· Transient expression of heterologous proteins in plants using vectors derived from plant viruses
· Peptide/epitope display on the surface of virus particles (electron microscopy)
Metabolic engineering of plant cells
· Development of platform for expression and accumulation of authentic human glycoproteins such as antibodies in plants
· Plant genome editing (Crispr, RNAi)
· Protein expression using plant tissue cultures
Influence of abiotic stress on plant virus infection
Analysis of virus infection upon heat, drought and cold treatment of plants
Workers
- Jan Fousek
- Ing. Jiban Kumar Ph.D.
- Bc. Radek Vítek
head of the laboratoryscientist
- Mgr. Tomáš Moravec PhD
deputy head of the laboratorysenior scientist
- Doc. RNDr. Noemi Čeřovská CSc.
scientist
- Dr.rer.nat.Ing. Helena Plchová
- RNDr Naďa Wilhelmová CSc
scientific assistant
- RNDr. Oldřich Navrátil CSc.
graduated technical assistant
- ing. Jitka Svobodová
postgraduate student
- Ing. Jakub Dušek
technician
maternity leave
- Mgr. Hana Hoffmeisterová Ph.D.
Research projects
- Impact of humanised glycosylation pathway on protein accumulation and traficking in plant seeds , GA ČR , Tomáš Moravec
- Impact of different topology of heterologous antigenic determinants in PVX-based plant viral vector on their expression level and immunogenicity , GA ČR , Noemi Čeřovská
- Biosafe plant virus expression system for transient production of human papillomavirus oncoproteins and their use for therapeutic vaccine development , GA ČR , Noemi Čeřovská
- Variability of Potato leafroll luteovirus (PLRV), improved reliability of its detection and utilization of transgenic resistance , MZE NAZV , Tomáš Moravec
- Genomics and proteomics in plant breeding , MŠMT , Noemi Čeřovská
Publications
2013
- PHOTOSYNTHETICA 51 (2) 191-201 2013
- CZECH JOURNAL OF GENETICS AND PLANT BREEDING 49 9-15 2013
- BIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 57 (4) 783-787 2013
- PHOTOSYNTHETICA 51 483-489 2013
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH 11 (4) 233-243 2013
- BIOTECHNOLOGIA 94 192 2013
- APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY 171 209-224 2013 Fulltext: PDF link on intranet only
2012
- JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCES 37 125-133 2012
- BIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 56 775-779 2012 Fulltext: PDF link on intranet only
- JOURNAL OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY 160 251-254 2012 Fulltext: PDF link on intranet only