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Assoc. prof. Aleš Pečinka

Position
Group Leader
Phone
+420 585 238 709
E-mail
pecinka@ueb.cas.cz
Address
Šlechtitelů 31, 779 00 Olomouc
Room number
203
Research group
Pečinka group

Curriculum Vitae

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Education and Academic Degrees

  • 2022 – Docent (Associate professor), Faculty of Life Sciences, Palacký University Olomouc (UP), Olomouc, Czech Republic.
  • 2017 – Privat Dozent (habilitation), Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Bochum, Germany.
  • 2005 – Ph.D., University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
  • 2001–2005 – Ph.D. studies, Leibnitz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany.
  • 2001 – Mgr., Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
  • 1996–2001 – Mgr. studies, Palacky University, Dept. of Botany, Olomouc, Czech Republic.

Position and Employment

  • 2022–present – Deputy head, Centre of Plant Structural and Functional Genomics, Institute of Experimental Botany, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
    2020–present – Lecturer, course Epigenetics, Dept of Cell Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Life Sciences, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
  • 2017–present – Group leader, Centre of Plant Structural and Functional Genomics, Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i. (IEB), Olomouc, Czech Republic.
  • 2014–2017 – Guest lecturer, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Dept. of Plant Physiology, head Prof. Dr. Ute Krämer, Bochum, Germany.
  • 2015–2017 – Research group leader, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ), Cologne, Germany.
  • 2010–2015 – Project leader, MPIPZ, Dept. of Plant Breeding and Genetics, director Prof. Dr. Maarten Koornneef, Cologne, Germany.
  • 2006–2010 – Post-doc, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI), Vienna, Austria.

Research Focus

Chromatin, Epigenetics, DNA damage repair, SMC5/6 complex, DNA protein crosslinks, Seed development, Arabidopsis, Barley.

Awards

2024–present – International Advisory Board member, Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic.
2023–present – External Advisory Board member, Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions – Doctoral Network – EpiSeedLink.
2022–present – Editor for Scientific Reports – Nature Publishing Group.
2018 – Purkyne Fellowship from the Czech Academy of Sciences. 
2018 – Editorial board member of Cytologia – Journal of the Japan Mendel Society.

Publication Activity

Journal publications: 77
Book chapters: 4
Lifetime citations (WoS): 3462 (without self-citations: 3255)
H-index: 29 (WoS)



 

Five Selected Publications

  • Kovacik M, Nowicka A, Zwyrtková J, Strejčková B, Vardanega I, Esteban E, Pasha A, Kaduchová K, Krautsova M, Červenková M, Šafář J, Provart NJ, Simon R, Pecinka A. (2024). The transcriptome landscape of developing barley seeds. Plant Cell, 36: 2512-2530.
  • Kaduchová K, Marchetti C, Ovečka M, Galuszka P, Bergougnoux V, Šamaj J, Pecinka A. (2023). Spatial organization and dynamics of chromosomes and microtubules during barley mitosis. Plant J, 115:602-613. doi: 10.1111/tpj.16355.
  • Dvořák Tomaštíková E., Prochazkova K., Yang F., Jemelkova J., Finke A., Dorn A., Said M., Puchta H., Pecinka A. (2023). SMC5/6 complex-mediated SUMOylation stimulates DNA–protein cross-link repair in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 35: 1532-1547. 
  • Prochazkova K, Finke A, Tomaštíková ED, Filo J, Bente H, Dvořák P, Ovečka M, Šamaj J, Pecinka A (2022). Zebularine induces enzymatic DNA-protein crosslinks in 45S rDNA heterochromatin of Arabidopsis nuclei. Nucleic Acids Res, 50: 244-258.
  • Yang FY, Fernández-Jiménez N, Tučková M, Vrána J, Cápal P, Díaz M, Pradillo M, Pecinka A (2021): Defects in meiotic chromosome segregation lead to unreduced male gametes in Arabidopsis SMC5/6 complex mutants. Plant Cell, 33: 3104-3119.

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