An international team including LHR postdoc Michael Karampelias, who has led the lab’s bioluminescence research since 2021, engineered plants that glow in the dark, with light intensity signalling the levels of two hormones central to plant defence, published in Nature Communications. Read the ÚEB feature →
Category: Auxin
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Adriana’s phloem paper is out in Current Biology — a great capstone…
Adriana’s phloem paper is out in Current Biology — a great capstone to years of work with the Hardtke lab in Lausanne on how sieve elements finish maturing. 10.1016/j.cub.2026.06.042
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Lenka’s GH3 paper is out in Plant Physiology! She mapped how…
Lenka’s GH3 paper is out in Plant Physiology! She mapped how different GH3 enzymes split the job of switching auxin off, via aspartate or glutamine conjugation. 10.1093/plphys/kiag412
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Mike, Nikola and Zuzka helped build a glow-in-the-dark way to watch…
Mike, Nikola and Zuzka helped build a glow-in-the-dark way to watch plants fight off attackers in real time, published in Nature Communications.
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Plant cells that grow without auxin
LHR head Jan Petrášek and colleagues — including team members Anita Bírošíková and Milada Čovanová — described a surprising genetic mechanism that lets tobacco cell cultures grow and divide without the otherwise essential hormone auxin, a case of “evolution in a test tube.” Read the ÚEB feature →
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We figured out why some cultured cells stop caring about auxin…
We figured out why some cultured cells stop caring about auxin altogether: they just make more TIR1 receptor. Out now in New Phytologist.
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Vojtěch successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, “The Evolutionary…
Vojtěch successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, “The Evolutionary Origins of Auxin Action”! Thanks to Isabel Monte and Anthony Bishopp for travelling to Prague to serve as reviewers. Congratulations, Dr. Schmidt!
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Our Chara braunii paper is out in New Phytologist — this alga turns…
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
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Open Labs Day 2024
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 →
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Mike brought glow-in-the-dark Arabidopsis to DARK LAB for the Academy…
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.
