Pecinka lab

Centre of Plant Structural and Functional Genomics Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v. v. i. Šlechtitelů 31 Olomouc, CZ-783 71 Czech Republic Contact

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Research The Pecinka lab is hosted by the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany. Our goal is to understand molecular and evolutionary mechanisms shaping plant genomes and epigenomes. We analyze how DNA sequence and chromatin changes are generated by endo- and exogenous factors and how these forces are balanced by the genome repair and epigenetic mechanisms. To this end we use mainly the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and several other Brassicaceae and analyze them by forward and reverse genetics, molecular, biochemical, cytogenetic and bioinformatic methods. read more...

Lab Members Ales Pecinka Heinrich Bente Mariana Andrea Diaz Smoje Andreas Finke Catarine Markus Kashif Nawaz Anna Nowicka Björn Pietzenuk Ugur Ercan Technitians Barbara Eilts Petra Pecinkova Valentina Strizhova see complete list...

Recent Publications Vu G.T.H., Schmutzer T., Bull F., Cao H.X., Fuchs J., Tran T.D., Jovtchev G., Pistrick K., Stein N., Pecinka A., Neumann P., Novak P., Macas J., Deard P.H., Blattner F.R., Scholz U., Schubert I (2015): Comparative Genome Analysis Reveals Divergent Genome Size Evolution in a Carnivorous Plant Genus. Plant Genome doi:10.3835/plantgenome2015.04.0021 Open access Rawat V., Abdelsamad A., Pietzenuk B., Seymour D.K., Koenig D., Weigel D., Pecinka A., Schneeberger K. (2015): Improving the Annotation of Arabidopsis lyrata Using RNA-Seq Data. PLoS One 10(9):e0137391. Open access Cao H.X., Schmutzer T, Scholz U, Pecinka A, Schubert I, Vu G.T.H. (2015): Metatranscriptome analysis reveals host-microbiome interactions in traps of carnivorous Genlisea species. Frontiers in Microbiology doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00526 Open access Liu C-H, Finke A, Diaz M, Rozhon W, Poppenberger B, Baubec T, Pecinka A. (2015): Repair of DNA Damage Induced by the Cytidine Analog Zebularine Requires ATR and ATM in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell doi/10.1105/tpc.114.135467 Open access. see complete list... News 2016-02-01: Heinrich selected to join Mittelsten Scheid lab at GMI Vienna as new Ph.D. student. Congratulations! 2016-01-01: Happy and successful new year 2016. 2015-12-20: Lab visit to the Christmas market 2015-10-29: Björn successfully defended his PhD work at University of Cologne. Well done! 2015-10-21: Reveal the secrets of minute carnivorous plant genome Open access 2015-09-29: 60 km lab bike trip to Ville forest near Cologne. Well done! 2015-09-28: Anna Nowicka joined the lab for her DAAD post-doc.