Offer of dissertation topics:

• Ability of plants to adapt to changing conditions
• Bridging the gap between laboratory experiments and nature: food selectivity of zooplankton in situ
• Cell morphogenesis in the presence of nanoplast particles
• Comparative transcriptomics of virulence in the series Viridinutantes (Aspergillus): temporal dynamics of infection and evolutionary analysis of virulence factors
• Conjugating green algae (Zygnematophyceae) as model organisms for plant terrestrialization
• Diversification of diatoms in regionally unique habitats.
• Diversification of plants and fungi: key molecular and ecological mechanisms
• Evolutionary genomics of repeated adaptation to whole genome duplication
• Floral Economy Spectrum – key to understanding the floral diversity of alpine plants
• Hybridization and polyploidy as drivers of complex evolution in the genus Dactylorhiza
• Characterizing changes in ecosystem properties and function by application of ecological attributes to paleoecological data
• Molecular basis of repeated adaptation to challenging soils
• Parallel evolution of clonality in angiosperms
• The Genomic Basis of Partial Endoreplication and Extreme GC-content Variation in Orchids
• The role of genome size and polyploidy in trait evolution and diversification of angiosperms

Profile of the graduate

Students will acquire knowledge in a broad field of botany and specialization in the field of their their doctoral thesis. A part of education is thorough knowledge of the conceptual background and important techniques in the field. Graduate of the Botany study program is an expert in plants (autotrophic organisms including protists) and fungi. He / she is an expert in their diversity, their relationships, the dynamics of their populations and communities, and the evolutionary history and processes of evolution. He / she has a good general overview of current world scientific literature in the field and is able to solve problems that are unresolved and contribute thus to the general understanding of the studied organisms and their relationships. At the same time, he / she has thoroughly mastered the methodology of scientific work, starting with literature work, methodology of data collection design and experimentation, and their analysis. He / she is able to present his / her results (of course in English) at international scientific forums, especially in the form of scientific articles and in the form of conference presentations and posters. He / she is able to quickly orientate himself in botanical and ecological fields outside his / her immediate specialization. He / she is also able to comprehensively present his / her knowledge and results in a popular form in both printed and electronic media written in Czech. Graduates can work in all professions where field and laboratory knowledge of these organisms of their relationships and evolution is needed. Graduates will be able to work both in basic research institutions (universities, ASCR, other research institutions) and in the applied sphere, ranging from state and non-state nature protection, environmental organizations and so on, both in the Czech Republic and abroad.