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 →
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science
To mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, ÚEB profiled three researchers — including LHR deputy head Klára Hoyerová — about their work and path into science (in Czech). Read the ÚEB feature →
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New Czech Science Foundation projects starting in 2026
ÚEB researchers, including LHR’s Klára Hoyerová, are launching seven newly funded Czech Science Foundation projects in 2026, a year when only 14% of standard-project applications succeeded nationwide. Read the ÚEB feature →
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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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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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Online training for Ukrainian agricultural researchers
Despite the ongoing war, our scientists — including LHR’s Petr Hošek, who lectured on statistical methods in plant biology — are running online training for agricultural researchers at Dnipro’s Institute of Grain Crops, whose fields lie dangerously close to the front line (in Czech). Read the ÚEB feature →
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Tracing the evolutionary origins of plant hormones
Research with ÚEB, Charles University, and Ghent University found that plant hormones already occur in freshwater green algae, though they likely gained their growth-regulating functions only after plants moved onto land. Read the ÚEB feature →
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Convergent evolution in gene splicing
Led by LHR group leader Kamil Růžička, a Czech-based team found that plants independently evolved matching protein variants through alternative splicing multiple times, developing machine-learning software published in New Phytologist (in Czech). Read the ÚEB feature →
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Honorary doctorate for Prof. Zažímalová
Marking its 70th anniversary, the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague awarded an honorary doctorate to Eva Zažímalová — who led LHR for many years before becoming ÚEB director and chair of the Czech Academy of Sciences — recognising her work on the hormone auxin (in Czech). Read the ÚEB feature →
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New mechanism for auxin transport control
Led by LHR group leader Kamil Růžička, researchers found that alternative splicing of the PIN7 gene produces two proteins with opposing effects on auxin transport, a discovery with potential applications in crop breeding, published in New Phytologist (in Czech). Read the ÚEB feature →