Kája Synková has defended her bachelor thesis. Congratulations! And thanks for the cake:

Kája Synková has defended her bachelor thesis. Congratulations! And thanks for the cake:

Amel Y. received the 2-year Czech Academy of Sciences PPLZ fellowship.
Group members pay a visit to Michał Jasiński’s lab in Poznań.

Klára was elected to the GACR Expert Panel for Agricultural and Biological-Environmental Sciences.
Our Chara braunii paper is out in New Phytologist — this alga turns out to have real, working PIN-type auxin transporters. 10.1111/nph.70019
A warm welcome to Marharyta Kuzmenko, our new doctoral student!
ÚEB opened its doors for public lab tours, including LHR’s “Dark Lab” station showing off bioluminescent plants that glow to reveal their internal hormone signals (in Czech). Read the ÚEB feature →
Mike brought glow-in-the-dark Arabidopsis to DARK LAB for the Academy of Sciences’ open-doors festival at IEB — a bioluminescent plant that tells you how it’s feeling. More on X.

Václav gave an invited lecture on the “neglected cytokinin metabolites” at the 5th International Conference on Plant Biology in Srebrno Jezero, Serbia.