Jaroslav Doležel
Institute of Experimental Botany CAS, Olomouc
Jan Krekule Award Lecture: My Life with Chromosomes: Was It Worth It?
Czech Society of Experimental Plant Biology
Minisymposium CSEBR
2026
České Budějovice, Monday 15 June 2026
The Minisymposium of the Czech Society of Experimental Plant Biology will be held in České Budějovice from 10:00 to 14:30. Immediately after the Minisymposium, the plenary meeting of CSEPB will follow.
Date
15 June 2026
Time
10:00 – 16:00
Location
České Budějovice
Introduction
Plant science meeting in České Budějovice
During the Minisymposium we will present, for the first time, an award for lifetime contributions to experimental plant biology, named after our great colleague and promoter of our science and society Jan Krekule.
The first laureate selected by the CSEPB committee is Jaroslav Doležel from the Institute of Experimental Botany in Olomouc.
Jan Krekule Award Lecture
Jaroslav Doležel
Institute of Experimental Botany CAS, Olomouc
My Life with Chromosomes: Was It Worth It?
Programme
Programme
9:00 - 10:00
Registration
10:00 - 10:15
Opening words – Martin Janda (CSEPB)
10:15 - 10:55
Jan Krekule Award Lecture – Jaroslav Doležel: My Life with Chromosomes: Was It Worth It?
10:55 - 11:35
Keynote lecture – Jan Bartoš: Understanding B chromosome instability in wild Sorghum purpureosericeum
11:35 - 11:55
Tito Damiani: Repository-Scale Metabolomics analysis Reveals a Widespread Distribution of Benzylisoquinoline Alkaloids Across Flowering Plants
11:55 - 12:40
Lunch
12:40 - 13:00
Adam Zeiner: CYSTEINE-RICH RECEPTOR-LIKE PROTEIN KINASE2 – gateway to the development regulation
13:00 - 13:20
Jan Pleva: Using Gradient Experiments to Study Plant Responses to Environmental Change
13:20 - 13:40
Anna Kampová: How do stomata and programmed cell death contribute to anther dehiscence?
13:40 - 14:00
Pavel Hladík: Auxin Quantification: From Whole Organs to Single Cells
14:00 - 14:20
Michal Franěk: Advanced microscopy techniques for the analysis of DNA repair in plant cells
14:20 - 14:40
Vanessa Loiacono: Gene Expression as a Hallmark of Nuclear-Organellar Coevolution
14:40 - 15:00
Coffee break
15:00 - 16:00
Plenary council of Czech Society of Experimental Plant Biology
Speakers
Speakers
Registration
Registration
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Partners
Sponsors and partners
News
News
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Photogallery
Photogallery
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