Wide Hybridization Group

News:

• August 23, 2019: Our new paper on the chromatin organization entitled Nuclear Disposition of Alien Chromosome Introgressions into Wheat and Rye Using 3D-FISH has been published. (full text)
• August 15, 2019: Marco Tulio finished his stay in our group. It was a pleasure to have him here. Good luck in the future career!
• June 26, 2019: David was elected as a new Chair of Eucarpia, Session Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses. Big honour for the group! 
• June 24, 2019: Our proceedings papers have been published in Grassland Science in Europe 24: 259-261 (Genome organization and (in)stability of wide hybrids) and 321-323 (Multi-species phenotyping of drought in the Festuca-Lolium complex). 
• June 04, 2019: Our paper Selective Elimination of Parental Chromatin from Introgression Cultivars of xFestulolium (Festuca×Lolium) has been published in Sustainability, special issue Grass Traits for Ecosystem Services and Sustainability edited by Prof. Mike Humphreys. (full text)
• May 08, 2019: Paper entitled Accessing a Russian Wheat Aphid Resistance Gene in Bread Wheat by Long-Read Technologies of Hana Simková and her coleagues with little contribution of David has been published in Plant Genome. Congrats to Simkova Group! (full text)
• April 25, 2019: Paper entitled "Misdivision of Telocentrics and Isochromosomes in Wheat" of David Kopecký and Adam Lukaszewski was highlighted as "Editor's Choice" in Cytogenetic and Genome Research. (full text)
• April 10, 2019: Our paper "Inter-morphotype hybridization in tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.): Exploration of meiotic irregularities and potential for breeding" has been accepted in Euphytica. (full text)

• March 25, 2019: Our paper "Instability of Alien Chromosome Introgressions in Wheat Associated with Improper Positioning In the Nucleus" has been published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences. (full text)

• February 25, 2019: Our paper "Out-of-position telomeres in meiotic leptotene appear responsible for chiasmate pairing in an inversion heterozygote in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)" has been published in Chromosoma. (full text)

• December 12, 2018: Our paper "Misdivision of telocentrics and isochromosomes in wheat" has been accepted in Cytogenetic and Genome Research. (full text)

• September 2018: Marco Mendes, visiting PhD student from Brazil, joined our team. Welcome!

Vacancies:

MSc. theses:

The mechanisms responsible for genome dominance in Festuca x Lolium hybrids (covers microscopy, molecular cytogenetics, phenotyping)

The genome instability within Festuca x Lolium hybrids (covers plant crosses, molecular cytogenetics and microscopy)

Other options (BSc. and Ph.D. level): If you think you are real hard-worker willing to do overtime work in lab with a lot of enthusiasm and responsibility, you are welcome to contact us on kopecky@ueb.cas.cz