GAČR: Heterolobosea as a model group for studying the role of horizontal gene transfer in anaerobic eukaryotic lineages
Goal: Residual non-photosynthetic plastids occur in numerous eukaryote lineages, usually with little known physiological roles. We will obtain sequence data of several species of non-photosynthetic protists and study their plastids or genetic remnants thereof in silico. In parallel we will employ functional genomics, advanced microscopy, biochemical approaches, and gene expression experiments to better understand the functional and evolutionary aspects of several key functional modules shared by photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic plastids. Our work should deliver significant progress in protist biology at the organismic to biochemical level.
Principal investigator: Tomáš Pánek
Co-PIs: Marek Eliáš, Miroslav Oborník
Grantor: Czech Science Foundation
Duration: 2023-01 to 2025-12
Grant number: 23-06203S
IT4I: Open Access Competion for Computational Resources
Principal investigator: Tomáš Pánek
Grantor: IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center
Duration: 2021-05 to 2022-3
Grant number: OPEN-22-48
GAUK: Evolution of organellar genomes and anaerobiosis in a new lineage of non-photosynthetic algae
Principal investigator: Pia Corre
Project supervisor: Tomáš Pánek
Grantor: Grant Agency of Charles University
Duration: 2022 to 2024
Grant number: 118222
GAUK: Assessing the diversity and distribution of anaerobic and pathogenic Heterolobosea by environmental rDNA operon sequence profiling
Principal investigator: Seda Mirzoyan
Project supervisor: Tomáš Pánek
Grantor: Grant Agency of Charles University
Duration: 2022 to 2024
Grant number: 382122
GAČR: Heterolobosea as a model group for studying the role of horizontal gene transfer in anaerobic eukaryotic lineages
Goal: Residual non-photosynthetic plastids occur in numerous eukaryote lineages, usually with little known physiological roles. We will obtain sequence data of several species of non-photosynthetic protists and study their plastids or genetic remnants thereof in silico. In parallel we will employ functional genomics, advanced microscopy, biochemical approaches, and gene expression experiments to better understand the functional and evolutionary aspects of several key functional modules shared by photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic plastids. Our work should deliver significant progress in protist biology at the organismic to biochemical level.
Principal investigator: Tomáš Pánek
Co-PIs: Marek Eliáš, Miroslav Oborník
Grantor: Czech Science Foundation
Duration: 2023-01 to 2025-12
Grant number: 23-06203S