PF 2026
On behalf of the Biophysics Group, we wish you a peaceful holiday season and, in the New Year, good health and happiness. May each of your steps move you forward – even when the path seems blind and thorny.
New member of the group – Dr. Kinga Ilona Böde
Dr. Böde completed her PhD at the Biological Research Center (BRC) in Szeged, Hungary, and joined our team as a postdoctoral fellow earlier this year. She is a member of a team studying the role of non-bilayer lipids and lipid phases in the structure and function of the plant thylakoid membrane. She applies a wide…
New member of our group – Mgr. Nela Klusová
Nela graduated with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in experimental biology, however, she already worked on a biophysical topic as part of her bachelor’s thesis and after defending her diploma thesis, she joined our team as a doctoral student. Her research is focused on the study of physiological and biochemical responses of plants to abiotic…
New publication – “Carbon dioxide or photosynthetically active radiation? Evaluation of the significance of individual environmental factors that control leaf stomatal development”
Our members, in cooperation with VŠB-TUO, published a new article in the scientific journal Annals of Botany. https://academic.oup.com/aob/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/aob/mcaf249/8321699 Summary of the article is in the leaflet attached below:
New member of our group – Mgr. Zuzana Kmecová Materová, PhD.
Dr. Kmecová Materová is our “old-new” coleague, who returned to teaching and research after maternity leave. Her focus includes supporting science and research, conducting experiments and their evaluation (interpretation), developing existing (or introducing new) methods currently used in ongoing experiments – analysis of reactive oxygen species, antioxidant activities of low-molecular metabolites and their mixtures, oxidative…
New publication – “Revisiting the QA model of chlorophyll-a fluorescence induction: new perspectives to monitor the photochemical activity and structural dynamics of photosystem II”
Prof. Garab recently published a review summarizing the current knowledge regarding the photochemical activity and structural dynamics of photosystem II. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11120-025-01178-x A summary of the article’s content is provided in the attached flyer.
Rector’s Award for outstanding long-term scientific and research activity for Prof. Špunda
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!
Graduation – Mgr. Radomír Pech, PhD.
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…
New publication – “Thermal Plasticity of Multiple Traits Varies More Within Than Between Populations of Plantago lanceolata at Its Northern Range Edge”
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…
UV4Plants Training School
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…
