prof. RNDr. Jiří Fajkus, CSc.

Head of Research Centre, Mendel Centre for Plant Genomics and Proteomics

Office: bldg. C02/224
Kamenice 753/5
625 00 Brno

Phone:	+420 549 49 4003
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Field of study: Genomics and Proteomics

Study of protein complexes ensuring the stability of the plant genome – graduate 2016
Effect of chromatin assembly on genome stability – graduate 2016
Epigenetic mechanisms in the regulation of telomere maintenance – graduate 2014

Role of plant telomere proteins in cell regulations – graduate 2019
Crossroads of genetics and epigenetics: nucleosome assembly and chromosome integrity – graduate 2017
Structural and functional analysis of telomerases – graduate 2016
Protective role of the nucleosomes – graduate 2014

Telomerase RNP complex - composition and function – ongoing study
Telomerase RNAs and how to find them: bioinformatics methods paved the way for discoveries – graduate 2023
Molecular nature of evolutionary changes of plant telomeres and telomerases – graduate 2023
Factors of genome stability in moss and flowering plants – graduate 2021
Analysis of genome instability using genomic and bioinformatic approaches – graduate 2020

RNA splicing of exons with atypical splice sites – graduate 2024
Study of glycoconjugates by means of mass spectrometry: Utility for diagnostics – graduate 2023
Molecular mechanisms of plant response to abiotic stress caused by heavy metals – graduate 2023
Use of Brassica napus as a model crop to study the molecular mechanisms of auxin biosynthesis regulation during seed and embryo development – graduate 2023
Development of bio-electrochemical methods for in vitro diagnostics of malignant diseases – graduate 2022
Interactions of p53 protein with guanine quadruplexes and other DNA secondary structures – graduate 2022
Plant cells response to stress conditions – graduate 2022
Gene expression in plant allopolyploids and interspecific hybrids – graduate 2021
Characterization of new organometallic compounds with potential anticancer effects – graduate 2021
Analysis of histone variant distribution in repetitive sequences of Arabidopsis thaliana genome – graduate 2021
Genomic structure and organization of plant interspecific hybrids – graduate 2021
Bioinformatic analysis in microbiology – graduate 2019

Bioinformatic approaches for structural analysis of plant genomes – graduate 2020

Combined experimental and bioinformatic approaches in telomere biology research – ongoing study

Nucleoprotein Complexes of Telomeres – graduate 2011
Analysis of Arabidopsis telomere-associated proteins in vivo – graduate 2010
Utiliyation of telomerase as diagnostic and predictive tumor marker – graduate 2008
Characterization of nucleoprotein complexes in plant order Asparagales – graduate 2008
Telomere-binding proteins charakterization – graduate 2006
Plant telomere-associated proteins and their protein-protein interaction – graduate 2005
Biologie telomer v onkologické diagnostice – graduate 2003
Nukleoproteinové komplexy rostlinných telomer – graduate 2001
Struktura a dynamika subtelomer a telomer – graduate 2000
Homologous Recombination in Yeast "Beginning at the Break, Break at the Beginning" – graduate 2000