Lecture 'Ribonucleoprotein granules in plant germline differentiation'
- For whom
- Employees , Students
- When
- 01-10-2024 from 11:00 to 12:00
- Where
- Jeff Schell seminar room, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 71, 9052 Gent
- Language
- English
- Organizer
- Horticell - Department of Plants and Crops - Faculty of Bioscience Engineering
- Contact
- cedric.schindfessel@ugent.be
Karel Říha is an expert on plant meiosis. He will give a seminar about ribonucleoparticles and their role in germline differentiation.
Karel Říha and his lab from the Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC, CZ) have made breakthrough discoveries about the role of ribonucleoparticles (molecular condensates) in plant meiosis. For this they used advanced light sheet microscopy techniques for live imaging of plant meiocytes. More recently, they investigated the role of high environmental temperature on meiotic chromosome segregation and progression.
Karel will give a detailed seminar about these topics followed by a questions-and-answers session. Karel received a PhD in genetics at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic in 1998. He then spent four years as a postdoctoral fellow at Texas A&M University, where he studied telomeres in plants. In 2003, he joined the newly established Gregor Mendel Institute in Vienna as a Research Group Leader. In 2014, he returned to Brno, to establish his current lab at CEITEC.