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Institute of Michrobiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

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Curriculum vitae

Mgr. Vendula Krynická, Ph.D.

Affiliation

Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre Algatech, Novohradská 237 - Opatovický mlýn, 379 81 Třeboň, CZ

Appointment

Associate Scientist

Education and academic qualification

Jul 1998, MSc. in Biochemistry, Faculty of Science of Charles University, Prague, CZ
Dec 2015, Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, CZ

Overview of employment

January 2021 - now, Associate Scientist, Institute of Microbiology CAS, Centre Algatech, Třeboň, CZ
2016 - 2019, Posdoctoral fellow, Institute of Microbiology CAS, Centre Algatech, Třeboň, CZ
2009 - 2015, Ph.D. student, Institute of Microbiology CAS, Centre Algatech, Třebon, CZ
1999 - 2000, Research assistant, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, CAS CZ
1995 - 1998, Technician, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, CAS CZ

Career breaks

2000 - 2009, Maternity and parental leave
2019 - 2021, Maternity and parental leave

Stays abroad

2017 - Seven-month postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Prof. Neil Hunter, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK

Research interest and current research work

see VK profile

Collaborators

Neil Hunter, Phil Jackson, Mark Dickman (University of Sheffield); Peter Nixon (Imperial College); Wolfgang Hess (University of Freiburg); Bettina Ughy, Tamas Zakar (Biological Research Centre, Szeged)

Mentoring and supervising students

1 B.Sc. student successfully defended (University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, CZ)
1 co-supervised and 2 Ph.D. supervised student (University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, CZ) currently working on their theses

Teaching

March 2023 – Garant of the new study program at Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, CZ entitled: “Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Cyanobacteria”, starting in the school year 2024

Obtained Czech funding

2025 - 2027, The Czech Science Foundation (GACR), 25-17569S, PI
2019 - 2022, The Czech Science Foundation (GACR), 19-08900Y, PI
2016 - 2017, The Czech Science Foundation (GACR), Program Research and Mobility Support, 310547, PI

Lectures and conference talks

2023, Gordon Research Conferense of Plant Proteolysis entitled :“FtsH4 controls the biogenesis of photosynthetic complexes“
2023, Cyano23:8th Early Career Researcher Symposium on Cyanobacteria, Lautrach, Germany
2022, Cyano22:7th Early Career Researcher Symposium on Cyanobacteria, Leipzig, Germany
2022, 63rd Czech Phycological Society meeting in Ostrava, CZ

Prizes, awards

2016 - Award of Czech Academy of Sciences for the outstanding results in the field ”Biogenesis and protection of Photosystem II“ (team member)
2016 - Director’s prize for the best PhD thesis of the Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences

Top 5 publications between 2017 - 2024

1. Koník P, Skotnicová P, Gupta S, Tichý M, Sharma S, Komenda J, Sobotka R, Krynická V.* (2024): The cyanobacterial FtsH4 protease controls accumulation of protein factors involved in the biogenesis of photosystem I. Biochim Biophys Acta Bioenerg. 1865(1):149017. doi: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2023.149017.

2. Krynická, V*, Skotnicová, P, Jackson, PJ, Barnett, S, Yu, Jianfeng, Wysocka, A, Kaňa, R, Dickman, MJ, Nixon, PJ, Hunter, CN, Komenda, J (2023): FtsH4 protease controls biogenesis of the PSII complex by dual regulation of high light-inducible proteins. Plant Communications 4(1), 100502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xplc.2022.100502

3. Krynická, V.*, Georg, J., Jackson, P.J., Dickman, M.J., Hunter, C.N., Futschik, M.E., Hess, W.R., and Komenda, J. (2019). Depletion of the FtsH1/3 proteolytic complex suppresses the nutrient stress response in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp strain PCC 6803. The Plant Cell 31:2912-2928. 10.1105/tpc.19.00411.

4. Komenda, J., Krynická, V., and Zakar, T. (2019). Isolation of thylakoid membranes from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and analysis of their photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes by Clear Native-PAGE. Bio- Protocol 9 10.21769/BioProtoc.3126.

5. Bečková, M., Yu, J., Krynická, V., Kozlo, A., Shao, S., Koník, P., Komenda, J., Murray, J.W., and Nixon, P.J. (2017). Structure of Psb29/Thf1 and its association with the FtsH protease complex involved in photosystem II repair in cyanobacteria. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 372:20160394. 10.1098/rstb.2016.0394.

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