Teaching, students

Courses

(mostly in Czech, the first two also in English

• Molecular methods in plant science
• Flow cytometry in plant biology
• Determination seminar of the vascular plants
• Flora and vegetation of central Europe (part)
• Biological Laboratory Techniques (part)
• Paper reading course (systematic botany)
• Biostatistics – practical part
• Course of alpine botany and ecology
• Interdisciplinary excursion Ecology of Biomes
• Field course I, II
• Field course IV - botanical part & other botanical excursions

Students

MSc students

• Veronika Otisková: Morfometrická a genetická analýza skupiny Centaurea macroptilon (Morphometric and genetic analysis of the Centaurea macroptilon group; finished 2016)
• Baďurová Tereza (ZF JU): Systematika zdravínku jarního (Odontites vernus) v České republice (Systematics of Odontites vernus in the czech Republic; finished 2013, consultant)
• Dana Jenčová: Květena vesnic na klimatickém gradientu v jižní části Čech (Flora of villages on a climatic gradient in South Bohemia, finished 2011)
• Jakub Karásek: Morfologická plasticita Centaurea jacea (Morphological plasticity of Centaurea jacea, finished 2010)

Bc Students

• Helene S. Gemeinhardt: Genetic variation of Ranunculus sect. Batrachium populations (Biological Chemistry, since 2017)
  The aim of this thesis is to test the use of microsatellites (SSRs) to study the population genetics of Batrachium populations. Microsatellite primers were devoloped for one Asian species of this group, the student is testing crossamplification and usability of these primers on central European species.
• Linda Vlčková: Určování terestrických forem lakušníků (Determination of terrestrial forms of water-crowfoots, Ranunculus sect. Batrachium; since 2018)
  The current determination literature on this group of plants is based on typical individual from deep waters. However, a peculiar forms that grow on wet substrate (such as exposed bottoms of fishponds) are frequent. The range of morphological variation of these forms as well as stability of characters compared to aquatic individuals are little known. Many terrestrial individuals are indeterminable based on the recent literature. The student will collect samples in the field and measure important morphological characters; determination will be confirmed using flow cytometry (genome sizes, which are specific for individual species). Further use of molecular methods is also possible (e.g. to detect hybrids).


• Viktorie Brožová: Altitudinal distribution of apomixis in the high-alpine flora of the Ladakh, NW Himalaya (finished 2015, konzultant)
• Dana Jenčová: Květena vesnic Budějovické pánve (Flora of villages of the Budějovická pánev Basin; finished 2008)
• Zuzana Mruzíková: Floristicko-fytogeografická studie Osoblažska (Floristic-phytogeographical study of the Osoblaha region, Czechia; finished 2008)

The topics of theses I offer can be found here