Curriculum vitae

Affiliation

• Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre Algatech, Novohradská 237 - Opatovický mlýn, 379 81 Třeboň, Czech Republic
• University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Faculty of Science, Branišovská 1645/31a, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Position

Postdoctoral fellow

Education

• 2025 - Ph.D. thesis "Earliest stages of Photosystem I assembly in the cyanobacterium
  Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 ", University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice and Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre Algatech, Třeboň; supervised by prof. Josef Komenda
• the previous academic and research background is in Botany with a specialisation in the Angiosperm Taxonomy and Physiology (xxxx - xxxx, University ..., India); practice in Biotechnology and Molecular biology techniques. 

Prize

• 2023, Best Presentation in Retreat 2023 organized by the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic.
• 2023, Best Poster Presentation in Cyano 2023, 8th Early Career Researcher Symposium on Cyanobacteria at the University of Kassel, Germany.
• 2022, Best Poster presentation in Algatech Student Poster Session organized by Centre Algatech, Institute of Microbiology, Třebon, Czech Republic.

Publication

• Koník, P, Skotnicová, P, Gupta, S, Tichý, M, Sharma, S, Komenda, J, Sobotka, R, Krynická, V: The cyanobacterial FtsH4 protease controls accumulation of protein factors involved in the biogenesis of photosystem I. BBA - Bioenergetics 1865(1), 149017, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2023.149017
• Quentin Charras Ferroussier, Sadanand Gupta, Martin Tichý, Ashraf Al-Amoudi, Martin Lukeš, Daniel Štipl, Peter Koník, David Bína, Marek Zákopčaník, Petr Novák, Roman Sobotka, Josef Komenda, Andreas Naschberger:
  High-resolution structural analysis of the cyanobacterial photosystem I complex reveals independent incorporation of small transmembrane and cytoplasmic subunits. Plant Communications 6(12), 101493, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xplc.2025.101493.

Research interest and current research work

In the group of Prof. Josef Komenda, I am working on the assembly of photosystem I in cyanobacteria, focusing mainly on deciphering the first steps involved in the assembly process.