After recently receiving the title of professor, we are pleased to announce another success of Prof. Špunda – receiving the Rector’s Award for outstanding long-term scientific and research activity. Hearty congratulations to the entire team of colleagues in the Biophysics group!
We have already reported that our colleague Dr. Pech defended his thesis some time ago. However, he officially received his diploma recently in October at the ceremonial meeting of the OU Scientific Council. In June, Dr. Pech has left our group and joined a postdoctoral position at the CEITEC Institute in Brno, in the group…
Colleagues Dr. Nezval and Dr. Pech contributed to a publication entitled “Thermal Plasticity of Multiple Traits Varies More Within Than Between Populations of Plantago lanceolata at Its Northern Range Edge”. The publication is a collaboration primarily with colleagues from Finland and was published in the journal Ecology and Evolution. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.72201 A summary of the article…
On October 14-17th, 2025, the Biophysics group at the Faculty of Plant Sciences of the Faculty of Science of the University of Prague, in cooperation with the UV4PLANTS organization, organized an international workshop for natural science students who are interested in learning new methods in the fields of plant physiology, biophysics, and analytical methods for…
Several new members joined our team this year. One of them is Dr. Pavol Melicher, who joined us as a postdoctoral fellow. Pavol studies the regulation of antioxidant enzymes and their functions in plant responses to various environmental conditions, especially to the spectral properties of light, and also studies ROS-dependent growth regulation mechanisms in plant…
Mgr. Michal Štroch, Ph.D., successfully completed his habilitation in Biophysics We are very pleased to announce that Mgr. Michal Štroch, Ph.D., assistant professor, deputy head of the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, and head of the Biophysics group, has successfully completed his habilitation in Biophysics at the Faculty of Science, University…
This year, we organized a summer school for high school students for the first time under the direction KFY. The summer school itself took place from 18 to 22 August 2025, with the first 3 days of the summer school being directed by the Biophysics group. High school students tried out a number of experiments…
Registration is now open for a three-day training program organized by our members and the UV4PLANTS organization. This series of workshops, primarily for doctoral and master’s students, will take place from October 15 to 17, 2025. The event will focus on experimental approaches to assessing plant responses to light stress (excessive PAR or UV radiation),…
Members of the research team “Role of non-lamellar lipid phases in the structure and function of thylakoid membranes” published an article in journal Physiologia Plantarum. The study is entitled “Lipid phase behaviour of the curvature region of thylakoid membranes of Spinacia oleracea”. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ppl.70289 The significance of the publication is briefly summarized in the attached leaflet.
We are very pleased to congratulate doc. RNDr. Vladimír Špunda, CSc. on the successful completion of the appointment procedure as a professor in the field of Biophysics at the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. On 16. 6. 2025, the President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, presented him with an decree. Professor Vladimír…
