The 2024/25 winter semester programme 1. 10. 2024 Scheduling meeting 8. 10. 2024 Echoes of scientific events 15. 10. 2024 Miroslav Srba (Department of Experimental Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University): Determinace tvaru a barvy pastí špirlic (Sarracenia) pohledem klasické genetiky a aplikovaného šlechtění (in Czech). 22. 10. 2024 Petr Žáček and Olga Součková (BIOCEV, OMICS Mass Spectrometry Core Facility): Metabolomics: a powerful analytical tool to study biological processes 29. 10. 2024 Tetiana Kalachova (Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences): With a little help from my friends: bacteriophages in plant protection against bacterial diseases 5. 11. 2024 Jaroslav Čepl (Department of Forest Genetics and Physiology, Czech University of Life Sciences): Lesy v pohybu: Od doby ledové k asistované migraci (in Czech) 12. 11. 2024 Michal Koblížek (Centre Algatech, Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences): Cold-loving bacterium from a mountain lake harvests light energy using both bacteriochlorophyll-containing photosystems as well as proton-pumping rhodopsins 19. 11. 2024 Alexander Ač (CzechGlobe - Global Change Research Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences): Climate change is accelerating. How close are irreversible tipping points? 26. 11. 2024 Gabriela da Silva (Department of Experimental and Functional Morphology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences): Throwing away to survive: senescence of rhizome as a mechanism adopted by clonal plants to remain young forever 3. 12. 2024 Said Hafidh (Laboratory of Pollen Biology, Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences): Love signals: Role of RNA binding proteins in reproductive cell-cell communication. 10. 12. 2024 Kateřina Schwarzerová (Department of Experimental Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University): Fulbright at Washington State University: internship report 17. 12. 2024 Christmas Seminar