News

April 2026

Pavel gave an interview to Czech radio station Radiožurnál (in Czech). Our Radio Star!

Listen here (Radiožurnál)

Watch here (Youtube)

January 2026

Katka has received a Career Restart Grant from Masaryk University (MUNI) to study small heat shock proteins in Arabidopsis. Congratulations!

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December 2025

From a record number of applications this year, Pavel won the Brno PhD Talent competition with his project on genome editing in Brassicaceae. Congratulations!

November 2025

At the end of November, CEITEC hosted the TANGENC (TowArds Next GENeration Crops) project conference, where Unni, Vendula, and Oussama presented their work on oilseed rape and Arabidopsis.

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September 2025

At the end of September, the annual Research Night took place at Ceitec. Visitors got the chance to see and even try our plant transformation method, play fun games about the many forms of wealth plants can offer us, and share their wishes for what they would like to gather from a magic tree.

Most people wished for love and happiness, while some students surprised us with dreams of finishing their studies and publishing lots of papers in top journals!

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August 2025

At the end of August, Oussama, Teresa, Vendula, Samia, and Helene attended the Plant Biology CS conference in Bratislava, where they presented their research on embryo and seed development as well as plant hormones.

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July 2025

Our lab went on a group trip where we took a boat ride on the dam Prýgl ;-) and then hiked around it. Some of us even went for a swim. We really enjoyed the day!

June 2025

Matej successfully completed his Master's studies by defending his thesis under the supervision of Veronika. Congratulations!

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