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Botany

More information (website of the botany programme)

For further information contact:
Tomáš Herben (chair of the Programme Steering Committee, herben@natur.cuni.cz)

The discipline

The field of botany covers all plant organismal sciences including mycology. Students typically specialize in one of the following fields: (i) systematics, distribution and ecology of non-vascular plants (including fungi), (ii) biosystematics/experimental taxonomy, microevolution, phylogenetics a distribution of vascular plants, or (iii) plant ecology, vegetation science and landscape ecology (including paleoecology). The study encompasses training in modern methodological approaches, data analysis and synthesis, and stresses participation in the scientific community, including the ability to present one's own results. Work on the PhD. project of the student is the core of the study. More information is available at the website of the Programme Steering Committee (http://botany.natur.cuni.cz/cs/vyuka/doktorsky-stupen/).

Lectures, courses and seminars

The programme committee organizes courses and seminars for doctoral students, often given by invited scholars from universities from different countries. Most of these courses are in English. An overview of these courses is available at at the botany website (http://botany.natur.cuni.cz/cs/vyuka/doktorsky-stupen/). Further courses can be chosen from master-level courses at the university, both at the Department of Botany and other departments of the University and/or elsewhere (e.g. in ecology, genetics, plant physiology, geology, geography).

Examples of PhD. projects

Non-vascular plants and fungi
Phylogenetics and evolutionary history of green algae
Spatial structure and ecology of cyanobacterial and algal species composition in freshwater wetlands
Confocal microscopy and 3-D reconstruction of chloroplasts and relation of their ontogeny with the evolutionary history and ecology
Geometric morphometrics of algal structures as a tool in ecology and systematics
Biogeography and ecological dynamics of chrysomonads in phytoplankton
Molecular characterisation of aerophytic algal communities
Molecular characteristics of trebouxiophyte lichen photobionts and thein relation with the ecology of fungal partner
Biomonitoring of air pollution using epixylic and epilithic lichens
Population ecology of invasive and rare bryophyte species
Community ecology of bryophytes in peat bog wetlands
Taxonomy and phylogenetics of ascomycete fungi (esp. mitosporic genera related to Eurotiales and Hypocreales)
Biodiversity and ecology of extremophilic microscopic fungi
Associations of endophytic fungi, trees and insects
Phylogenetic relationships among selected species of parasitic fungi (Uredinales, Ustilaginales) - molecular characterization

Vascular plants
volutionary dynamics of diploid-polyploid complexes in plants
Reproductive systems and their effect on genetic and morphological variation
Porcesses in sympatric populations of coexisting cytotypes
Genome size and its use and taxonomic and ecological marker
Interaction of cytotypes with other trophic levels (mycorhiza, pollination, parasites)
Plant morphometrics (including geometric morphometrics)
Phylogeography
Genetic variation and its use in conservation of genetic variation and taxonomy
Biosystematic studies of plant groups in Central Europe

Plant ecology and vegetation science
Structure, classification and dynamics of modern vegetation
Vegetation changes since Middle Ages
Community and ecosystem dynamics in river alluvia
Population biology as a factor determining plant survival in landscapes
Ecological relevance of genetic variation in plants
Mechanisms underlying species richness of plant communities
Interactions of plants with other trophic levels (mycorhiza, pollination, parasites)
Paleoecology and archeobotany of European landscape
Population biology of rare and disappearing plants
Ecology of plant invasions
Colonization and succession at anthopogenic habitats

Subject-area Board

The subject-area board is available in Czech (Oborová rada). The Chairman is highlighted.

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