We are happy to welcome Ramakrishna Yadala👋 He is coming to us with a prestigious two-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie project. 🥳 He will focus on the influence of the environment on the development of the number of grains in barley ears 🌾
Chromatin organization and function
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Research group at IEB studying how DNA is assembled into chromatin and how chromatin factors control plant development, stress resistance and genome stability. X: https://x.com/pecinka_grp
Our group is attending the Plant Genome Stability and Change Meeting 2026 at Wuhan ! ☘️ Ales (@apecinka.bsky.social) gave a talk on how condensin mediates resistance to genotoxic stress, and Eva(@evadt.bsky.social) presented her research on the role of SUMOylation in DNA-protein cross link repair.
📢We are pleased to welcome Tereza Kratochvílová to our team. She will be Eva's @evadt.bsky.social first Ph.D. student, working primarily on the role of SUMO signaling in DNA damage sites. 🧬 We hope Tereza enjoys her time here and does well. #PhD #SUMO #DNAdamage #Arabidopsis
Doing the periodic cleaning of used plasmid miniprep columns and realized in honor of Earth Day it may be worth reminding you molecular biologists: Plasmid miniprep columns can be cleaned and reused essentially indefinitely! Just add 1 M HCl, soak overnight and wash 3x w/ water. Save $ and plastic
This week, Jana, Manuel, Ahel, and Peter participated in the Young Researchers Meeting (YRM) at the IEB 2026 conference @iebcas.bsky.social, where they presented their research.
#newpaper: Combining promoter and induced intron 1 mutations of Vrn-A1a does not accelerate flowering in wheat @springernature.com: Wheat, Vernalization, Vrn-A1a, RIP3, Genome editing, Crops doi.org/10.1007/s110... @pecinka-grp.bsky.social
Combining promoter and induced intron 1 mutations of Vrn-A1a does not accelerate flowering in wheat - Molecular Breeding
Molecular Breeding - In temperate cereals, vernalization regulates the transition from vegetative to reproductive growth in response to low temperatures. A central component of this pathway is...
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Proud and happy to have contributed to the Arabidopsis thaliana genome reannotation as the only scientist from the Czech Republic. Accurate annotation of model plants like Arabidopsis is essential for advancing plant biology, functional genomics, and future crop research. 🌿 @iebcas.bsky.social
The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR)@tairnews.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhy did researchers choose to volunteer their time to reannotate the Arabidopsis thaliana genome? It's value to the community🌾🧪🌱 bit.ly/4btx3HQ #TAIR #plantscience #plantbiology #Arabidopsis #cropscience #TAIR12
Meet Eva Dvořák Tomaštíková, of the Czech Academy of Sciences, one of the researchers behind #TAIR12, recently released on the ENA and NCBI. 🌾🧪🌱 bit.ly/4btx3HQ #TAIR #plantscience #plantbiology #Arabidopsis #cropscience
Meet the volunteer researchers behind TAIR12: Eva Dvořák Tomaštíková, Czech Academy of Sciences - Phoenix Bioinformatics
Scientists like Eva Dvořák Tomaštíková of the Czech Academy of Sciences chose to contribute to this work for the benefit of science. A. thaliana is key to understanding plant genetics, with implicatio...
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Condensin II mediates resistance to genotoxic stress and prevents mitotic defects in Arabidopsis (Jovanka Vladejić , Klara Prochazkova , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Condensin II mediates resistance to genotoxic stress and prevents mitotic defects in Arabidopsis
A forward-directed screen revealed that Condensin II prevents formation of mitotic anaphase bridges and maintains genome stability under genotoxic stress i
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It was a lifetime experience to see the "northern lights" in Olomouc, especially through a microscope above an Arabidopsis root. 🌌🌱😄
Lego flowers? Lego submarine? Lego Batman? Nope. The only right use for them are these special holders for barley seedlings for our new Spinning Disc Confocal Microscopy from @the.3i.social !🔬 This is just one of the many ingenious holders Peter engineered for imaging happy barley seedlings!🌾
We're excited to welcome our new intern student, Adrian Calves Ubach, PhD student in Miriam Szurman Zubrzyska’s laboratory at the University of Silesia in Katowice. Adrian studies DNA damage repair in barley. Welcome to the lab, Adrian!
🔊A long time ago in a microscopic galaxy far, far away.... 🎬Episode IV - A NEW MICROSCOPE 🔬 "It is period of cellular rebellion. Arabidopsis root cells have won first victory against the dark forces of DNA damage" Thanks to @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social and new i3 spinning disk @the.3i.social
‼️ IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️ 📜 Precision Plant Editing: From Barley to Amaranth with CRISPR in Hand 🔊 Götz Hensel @hhu.de ⏰ Wednesday, 4 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30 GMT events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d460dd...
Today was my last day at @agroscope.bsky.social Nyon. Although my experiment didn't work as expected, I am extremely grateful for the time I spent with Etienne @plantepigenetics.ch and the team! Luckily I also had a chance to enjoy sports. Goodbye, Mont Blanc. @pecinka-grp.bsky.social
#new_paper: Condensin II mediates resistance to genotoxic stress and prevents mitotic defects in Arabidopsis @academic.oup.com doi.org/10.1093/plph...
Condensin II mediates resistance to genotoxic stress and prevents mitotic defects in Arabidopsis
A forward-directed screen revealed that Condensin II prevents formation of mitotic anaphase bridges and maintains genome stability under genotoxic stress i
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Our postdoc Martin Kovačik received a Fulbright fellowship and is heading to the USA for 5 months at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge) with Prof Mary Gehring. Barley seeds&parental conflict mech @pecinka-grp.bsky.social @kovacik.bsky.social @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social
We go live!!! Join us Munich July5-7th to hear exciting research on #Replication by leaders in the field AND !! registration is FREE 🥳 (but mandatory) - we hope to see many in Munich 🍺 @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social @replifate.bsky.social @epicrossborders.bsky.social replifate.eu/event/meetin...
Events for February 2026
06-07 July 2026 | Munich, GermanyDNA Replication and Its Impact on Genome and Chromatin MaintenanceWe are RepliFate, a European Training Doctoral Network dedicated to understanding how DNA replication...
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Proud to be the first institution in Central Europe to host it. Our new Mirava Polyscope from Abberior Instruments brings cutting-edge imaging for plant research at the cellular and molecular level — and is open to external users via Czech-BioImaging. @ifieb.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
Second day of the @episeedlink.bsky.social internacional is coming up. We start with the third session focused on Epigenetic Memory and Chromatin Regulation. 10 interesting talks are waiting for us!
#new_paper: Whole-genome resequencing of the wild barley diversity collection: a resource for identifying and exploiting genetic variation for cultivated barley improvement @academic.oup.com: Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum, whole genome sequence data doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...
Whole-genome resequencing of the wild barley diversity collection: a resource for identifying and exploiting genetic variation for cultivated barley improvement
Wild barley (Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum) is the progenitor of cultivated barley and a rich source of genetic diversity. To exploit this subspecies f
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After break we are going to hear the advise of our @episeedlink.bsky.social External Advisory Board about current results and future. Thanks for their support and advise.
Starting the @episeedlink.bsky.social internacional conference with the first session of talks "Seed to seedling translation"
!!!! PhD position!!!! #SUMO modification in plant DNA damage repair. Join our team @pecinka-grp.bsky.social and work on this cool & still understudied topic. More info ⬇️⬇️⬇️
🚨 PhD position open🚨 Unravel why new polyploids like barley have poor seed viability. Dive into embryo/endosperm development. Join us! #PhD #PlantBiology #Barley #Polyploidy
I’ll be spending the next four weeks at @agroscope.bsky.social Changins, working on the eccDNA identification in Arabidopsis. Big thanks to @plantepigenetics.ch who agreed to host me and OPJAK Tangenc @iebcas.bsky.social for funding the mobility 😉 🌱🥼🔬
The HeatDDR doctoral network training school in full swing @iebcas.bsky.social @pecinka-grp.bsky.social @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social #microscopy #DNAdamage
We are hosting the training school of the HeatDDR PhD program over this week at the Center for Structural and Functional Plant Genomics of the Institute of Experimental Botany, Olomouc! 🧬 Doctoral students of the network from all over Europe will learn cutting edge techniques related to DNA damage!
