Organizers

Main organizer

Martin Janda
(President of Czech Society of Experimental Plant Biology,
Group leader, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic)
Research focus: Plant-microbe interactions
Contact: mjanda04@jcu.cz

Scientific committee

Daniel van Damme
(Group leader, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Gent, Belgium)
Research focus: endocytosis, advanced live cell imaging
Contact: daniel.vandamme@psb.vib-ugent.be

Christine Faulkner
(Group leader, John Innes Center, Norwich, United Kingdom)
Research focus: Cell to cell communication, plant health
Contact: Christine.faulkner@jic.ac.uk
 

Jan Martinec
(Director, Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic)
Research focus: Plant biochemistry, signal transduction
Contact: martinec@ueb.cas.cz

Malgorzata Kwasniak-Owcarek
(Senior researcher, University of Wroclaw, Poland)
Research focus: Mitochondrial genome and translation
Contact: malgorzata.kwasniak-owczarek@uwr.edu.pl
 

Petra Junková
(Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic)
Research focus: Structural proteomics
Contact: petra.junkova@uochb.cas.cz

Local organizing committee

Martin Potocký 
(Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic)
Research focus: Plant cell biology
Contact: potocky@ueb.cas.cz

Jitka Janová
(University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic)
Research focus: Photosynthesis, respiration
Contact: neuwij01@prf.jcu.cz

Marie Hronková 
(Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic)
Research focus: Stomatal development
Contact: hronkova@umbr.cas.cz

Jan Petrášek 
(Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic)
Research focus: Bioimaging, phytohormonal signalling
Contact: petrasek@ueb.cas.cz

Roman Pleskot
(Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic)
Research focus: Integrative structural biology
Contact: pleskot@ueb.cas.cz

Roman Hobza 
(Institute of Biophysics, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic)
Research focus: Functional genomics, gene editing
Contact: hobza@ibp.cz

Michael Wrzaczek 
(Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic)
Research focus: Plant signalling cascades
Contact: michael.wrzaczek@umbr.cas.cz

Ondřej Novák 
(Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic)
Research focus: Phytohormonal analysis
Contact: ondrej.novak@upol.cz