prof. Ondřej Prášil, Ph.D.
	______________________________________________ Institute of Microbiology, Laboratory of Photosynthesis Opatovicky mlyn, Trebon 379 81 Czech Republic Tel: +420 384 340 430 E-mail: prasil(at)alga.cz _______________________________________________

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Short CV

 

Research interests:

• Regulation of photosynthesis
• Phytoplankton ecophysiology
• Global change and diazotrophic cyanobacteria
• Development of new biophysical methods
• Chlorophyll variable fluorescence

 

Active cooperations

• Wim Vredenberg - Wageningen University, NL www
• Ilana Berman-Frank - Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel www
• Hendrik Kupper - Univ. Konstanz, Germany www
• Kim Halsey www and Mike Behrenfeld www - Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
• Govindjee - University of Illinois, USA - www
• George C. Papageorgiou, National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos, Athens, Greece
• David Suggett - University of Essex, UK www
• Jacco Kroomkamp - NIOZ, NL www
• Peter Ralph www and Anthony Larkum www - UTS Sydney, Australia

 

Current grant projects

• Protool (Productivity Tools: Automated Tools to Measure Primary Productivity in European Seas. A New Autonomous Monitoring Tool to Measure the Primary Production of Major European Seas) - EU 7FP project (2009-2012)
• Chromera velia - newly discovered living photosynthetic ancestor of parasites of the group Apicomplexa - project GAAV - IAA601410907 -(2008-2012)
• Metabolic regulation in Prochlorococcus - Regulation of photosynthetic metabolism and primary productivity in marine environment – case study in the dominant marine prokaryotic microorganism Prochlorococcus marinus - CZ/NSF programme Amvis MSMT LH 11064 (2011-2013)

 

Recent publications

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2012

Vredenberg, W., Durchan, M., Prášil, O. (2012) The analysis of PS II photochemical activity using single and multi-turnover excitations. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology 107, 45-54

Kaňa R, Kotabová E, Sobotka R, Prášil O (2012) Non-photochemical quenching is located in chlorophyll a/c binding antennae of the cryptophyta alga Rhodomonas salina. PLoS ONE 7(1): e29700. - pdf

Oborník,M., Modrý, D., Lukeš,M., Černotíková-Stříbrná,E., Cihlář, J., Tesařová, M., Kotabová, E., Vancová, M., Prášil,O., Lukeš, J. (2012) Morphology, Ultrastructure and Life Cycle of Vitrella brassicaformis n. sp., n. gen., a Novel Chromerid from the Great Barrier Reef - Protist, Vol. 163, 306–323

 

2011

Kotabová E., Kaňa R., Jarešová J., Prášil O (2011) Non-photochemical fluorescence quenching in Chromera velia is enabled by fast violaxanthin de-epoxidation. FEBS lett. 585: 1941-1945 - pdf

Kaňa R., Komárek O., Kotabová E., Papageorgiou GC, Govindjee, Prášil O. (2011) The Slow S to M fluorescence rise is missing in the RpaC mutant of Synechocystis sp. (PCC 6803) Proceedings of 15^th International Photosynthetic Congress, Beijing, China, In press - pdf

Kaňa R., Kotabová E., Hošková B., Prášil O. (2011) Presence of flexible non-photochemical quenching in cryptophytes (Rhodomonas Salina). Proceedings of 15^th International Photosynthetic Congress, Beijing, China, In press - pdf

 

2010

Kranz, S.A., Levitan, O., Richter, K-U., Prášil, O., Berman-Frank, I., Rost, B. (2010) Combined effect of CO₂ and light on the N₂ –fixing cyanobacterium Trichodesmium IMS101: Physiological Responses. Plant Physiology 154, 334-345.

Levitan, O., Kranz, S.A., Spungin, D., Prášil, O., Rost, B., Berman-Frank, I. (2010) Combined effect of CO₂ and light on the N₂ –fixing cyanobacterium Trichodesmium IMS101: A mechanistic view. – Plant Physiology 154, 346-356.

Masojídek J., Prášil, O. (2010) The development of microalgal biotechnology in the Czech Republic. – Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology 37, 1307-1317.

Book: Sugget, D.J., Prášil, O., Borowitzka, M.(eds.) Chlorophyll a fluorescence in aquatic sciences: Methods and applications, Vol., 4, Springer 2010

Book chapter: Komárek, O., Felcmanová, K., Šetlíková, E., Kotabová, E., Trtílek, M., Prášil, O. (2010) Microscopic measurements of the Chlorophyll a fluorescence kinetics. – In: Chlorophyll a fluorescence in aquatic sciences: Methods and applications (eds. Suggett, D.J., Prášil, O., Borowitzka, M.A.), Vol., 4, pp. 91-102, Springer

 

2009

Kaňa R., Prášil O, Mullineaux CW (2009) Immobility of phycobilins in the thylakoid lumen of a cryptophyte suggests that protein diffusion in the lumen is very restricted. FEBS Lett. 583 (4), 670-674 - pdf

Kaňa R., Prášil O., Komárek O., Papageorgiou G.C., Govindjee (2009) Spectral characteristic of fluorescence induction in a model cyanobacterium, Synechococcus sp. (PCC 7942). BBA – Bioenergetics, 1787 (10), 1170-1178. - pdf

Prášil, O., Bína, D., Medová, H., Řeháková, K., Zapomělová, E., Veselá, J., Oren, A. (2009) Emission spectroscopy and kinetic fluorometry studies of phototrophic microbial communities along a salinity gradient in solar saltern evaporation ponds of Eilat, Israel. - Aquatic Microbial Ecology 56, 285-296.

Řeháková, K., Zapomělová, E., Prášil, O., Veselá, J., Medová, H., Oren, A. (2009) Composition changes of phototrophic microbial communities along the salinity gradient in the solar saltern evaporation ponds of Eilat, Israel. – Hydrobiologia 636, 77-88.

Suggett, D.J., Stambler, N., Prášil, O., Kolber, Z., Quigg, A., Vázquez-Dominguez, E., Zohary, T., Berman, T., Iluz, D., Levitan, O., Lawson, T., MNeeder, E., Lazar, B., Bar-Zeev, E., Medová, H., Berman-Frank, I. (2009) Nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of oceanic microbial growth during spring in the Gulf of Aqaba. - Aquatic Microbial Ecology 56, 227-239.

Vredenberg, W., Durchan, M., Prášil, O. (2009) Photochemical and photoelectrochemical quenching of chlorophyll fluorescence in photosystem II. – Biochimica et Biophysica Acta – Bioenergetics 1787, 1468-1478.

Book chapter: Vredenberg, W., Prášil, O. (2009) Modeling of chlorophyll a fluorescence kinetics in plant cells: derivation of a descriptive algorithm. – In: Laisk, A., Nedbal, L., Govondjee (eds.) Photosynthesis in silico: Understanding Complexity from Molecules to Ecosystems, pp. 125-149, Springer Science + Business Media B.V..

 

 

2008

Bonnet, S., Guieu, C., Bruyant, F., Prášil, O., Van Wambeke, F., Raimbault, P., Moutin, T., Grob, C., Gorbunov, M.Y., Zehr, J.P., Masquelier, S.M., Garczarek, L., Claustre, H. (2008) Nutrient limitation of primary productivity in the Southeast Pacific (BIOSOPE cruise). – Biogeosciences 5 (1), 215-225

Kaňa R., Kotabová E., Prášil O (2008) Acceleration of plastoquinone pool reduction by alternative pathways and inhibition of PSII photochemistry precede a decrease in photosynthetic CO2 assimilation in preheated barley leaves. Physiol. Plant. 133 (4) 794-806 - pdf

Komenda, J., Nickelsen, J., Tichý, M., Prášil, O., Eichacker, L.A., Nixon, P.J. (2008) The cyanobacterila homologue of HCF136/YCF48 is a component of an early photosystem II assebly complex and is importatn for both the efficient assembly and repair of photosystem II in synechocystis sp. PCC6803. – Journal of Biological Chemistry 283 (33), 22390-22399

Küpper, H., Šetlík, I., Seifert, S., Prášil, O., Šetlíková, E., Strittmatter, M., Levitan, O., Lohscheider, J., Adamska, I., Berman-Brank, I. (2008) Iron limitation in the marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium reveals new insights into regulation of photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation. – New Phytologist 179, 784-798

Prášil, O., Sugget, D.J., Cullen, J.J., Babin, M., Govindjee (2008) Aquafluo 2007: chlorophyll fluorescence in aquatic sciences, an international conference held in Nové Hrady. - Photosynthesis Research 95, 111-115