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- Wednesday, 14th January 2026, B11 (botanical practical room, ground level, Benátská 2), 9am

- select a scientific paper of your choice and send me it for approval
- make a group of three students

- read your own paper and prepare PowerPoint presentation for max. 8 mins (!)
- read the other two papers of your colleagues and prepare two scientific questions related to the application of molecular methods to each of them

- NOTE = presentation quality (not only graphical but overall), answers to questions; your questions to other colleagues

Individual students/groups

Group 1 (9:00)
Tereza Košičárová - Development and characterization of new SSR markers in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum using genomic and variant analysis
Matouš Frič - Domestication through clandestine cultivation constrained genetic diversity in magic mushrooms relative to naturalized populations
Svatopluk Skřivánek - Protein coding low-copy rpb2 and ef1-α regions are viable fungal metabarcoding DNA markers which can supplement ITS for better accuracy

Group 2 (9:45)
Eliška Blahušková - Phylogeographic evidence for the postglacial colonization of the North and Baltic Sea coasts
Lucie Pytlounová - Rare interspecific hybridization at the diploid level in Ranunculus sect. Batrachium
Tereza Roučková - Flow cytometry, microsatellites and niche models reveal the origins and geographical structure of Alnus glutinosa populations in Europe

Group 3 (10:30)
Victorine Malpart - Genetic analysis of traditional and evolved Basmati and non-Basmati rice varieties by using fluorescence-based ISSR-PCR and SSR markers
Justus Menzel - Molecular phylogeny and inflorescence evolution of Prunus (Rosaceae)
Alžběta Staňková - The role of seed dispersal, pollination and historical effects on genetic patterns of an insular plant that has lost its only seed disperser

Group 4 (11:15)
Václav Polcar - Genome re-sequencing reveals the history of apple and supports a two-stage model for fruit enlargement
Esme Ilgın Uçar - Landscape genomics provides evidence of ecotypic adaptation and a barrier to gene flow at treeline for the arctic foundation species Eriophorum vaginatum
Eliška Jašková - Extensive gene flow over Europe and possible speciation over Eurasia in the ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete Laccaria amethystina complex

Group 5 (12:00)
Jan Dražil - Naming the untouchable – environmental sequences and niche partitioning as taxonomical evidence in fungi
Elena Osipenko - Novel insights in cryptic diversity of snow and glacier ice algae communities combining 18S rRNA gene and ITS2 amplicon sequencing
Klára Sazimová - Huntsmen of the Caribbean: Multiple tests of the GAARlandia hypothesis

Group 6 (12:45)
Klára Musilová - Comparing Sanger sequencing and high-throughput metabarcoding for inferring photobiont diversity in lichens
Lucie Stárková - Multiple glacial refugia and postglacial colonization routes inferred for a woodland geophyte, Cyclamen purpurascens: patterns concordant with the Pleistocene history of broadleaved and coniferous tree species
Maxmilián Kudláček - Diversity and origins of Butomus umbellatus (flowering rush) invasion in North America