Funding

Our research is supported by both the foreign and the Czech grant agencies.

International grants

INTER-EXCELLENCE (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, project no. INTER-ACTION – LUAUS23236): Early auxin response – role of m6A methylation of mRNA? Principal investigator: Kamil Růžička. 2023-2027. Collaborator: Dior Kelley, Iowa State University.

HORIZON-WIDERA-2022, project number 10109029: HorLumAS, Visualization of plant Hormone dynamics using BioLuminescence during Abiotic Stress. Widening participation and spreading excellence, European Research Executive Agency (REA), European Commission. Principal investigator: Mike Karampelias, Host: Jan Petrášek. 2022-2024.

M-ERA.NET Call 2021: Greenhouse-PV: Semi-transparent PV coatings for greenhouse application. MOST TW (Taiwan), IFD (Denmark), NCN (Poland), TACR (Czech Republic). Czech principal investigator: Radomíra Vaňková. 2022-2025.

Czech Science Foundation (project no. 21-08021L): Deep cell biology of plant cell polarity. Lead Agency project between SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation) and CSF (Czech Science Foundation).  Czech principal investigator: Jan Petrášek, Swiss principal investigator: Christian Hardtke (University Lausanne). 2021–2023.

Czech Science Foundation (project no. 21-20936J): Development and validation of a suite of imaging reporters for plant hormones based on genetically encoded bioluminescence. Bilateral Grant Project with Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), Russia. Czech principal investigator: Jan Petrášek, Russian principal investigator: Ilia W. Yampolsky (Shemyakin–Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry RAS, Moscow), 2021–2023.

National grants

Czech Science Foundation (project no. 23-07813S): Revealing the nature of auxin regulation of cell division and expansion. Principal investigator: Jan Petrášek. Co-investigator: Lukáš Fischer (Department of Experimental Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University). 2023-2025.

Czech Science Foundation (project no. 23-08067S): Modulating ABA signaling pathways by alternative splicing of ABI2. Principal investigator: Kamil Růžička. 2023-2025.

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, project no. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000738 (EU Operational Programme “Research, development and education”): Centre for Plant Experimental Biology. Principal investigator: Radomíra Vaňková. 2018–2023.