USB Faculty of Science

Our Chemists published a groundbreaking achievement in structural biology! With their colleagues, they developed a new method to determine high-resolution protein structure from a single crystal grown inside a living cell. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

First article on the immune responses of poppy from the Department of Experimental Plant Biology and other collaborators. We described the response of four poppy cultivars after treatment with a peptide derived from bacterial flagellin: academic.oup.com/aobpla/arti…

The largest scientific study to date on neophobia has revealed why some bird species are more fearful than others. The research, with a Czech connection, shows that key factors include dietary requirements and migratory behavior. bsky.app/profile/themanybird…

Study by our PhD student, Thinles Chondol, explores how high Himalayan plants (4200–5300 m) sustain photochemical performance across the cold-arid Ladakh Range. Are they stressed or functionally adapted to extreme conditions and seasonal changes? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

New Czech-German grant at the Department of Chemistry to study tick-borne viruses: prf.jcu.cz/cz/?id=2977

New article in Genome Biology and Evolution. Blues have high chromosome numbers associated with increased diversification and their karyotypes reveal strategies to maintain genomic integrity amidst profound karyotypic changes: academic.oup.com/gbe/article…

Salicylic acid plays a key role in plant immunity. Researchers from FSc USB and IEB CAS revealed that its high concentration suppresses the production of anthocyanins. They uncovered a previously unknown mechanism in plant defense strategies. doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2025…

Neoadjuvant MBTA immunotherapy prevents cancer recurrence and metastases. One of the authors of the article is our former student Ondřej Uher. Read more: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3980…

The book Handbook of Trait-Based Ecology: From Theory to R Tools by Assoc. Prof. Francesco de Bello from the Department of Botany at the FSc USB, is now also being released in Japanese.

Parasites are expected to speciate by adapting to specific hosts, but examples of it are rare. New research reveals that it is happening in sympatry, when strong Darwinian selection overpowers gene exchange between populations of a fish parasite. doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf1…