Prestigious ERC Starting Grant awarded to Botany Department












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            European Research Council (ERC) grants recognize research of the absolute highest quality.
            of junior grants for researchers who received their PhDs within the last seven years, only
            this year in the Czech Republic.


            It was clinched by the Faculty of Science at Charles University, building on similar succe
            two researchers from the faculty were awarded.


            As a result, Botanist Filip Kolář will benefit from five years of financial support to inv

            importance of multiplying genetic information (polyploidization) in plants. The results of
            help in understanding evolutionary mechanisms in plants and may even be useful in breeding



            You can read all the details about the project here [ URL "https://www.natur.cuni.cz/eng/a
            erc-grant-is-going-to-the-botany-department"]


            Webpage of the group. [ URL "https://botany.natur.cuni.cz/ecolgen/"]


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            Filip Kolář, Ph.D.  has been studying the evolution of plants for many years. In his work,

            traditional knowledge of the ecology and biogeography of flora in Europe with new genomic 
            approaches. Thanks to this, he is able to choose suitable model groups to answer various q
            regarding the evolutionary biology of plants (and at the same time remain in the field for

            of his work). In addition to the results of genome duplication, he is investigating the si
            refuges for the emergence of new species, both edaphic (serpentine) and historical (glacia
            also examines the adaptation of species to the challenges of changing environments in moun

            Europe, Africa and South America. He is a member of several national and international tea
            he helped put together. He is intensively devoted to teaching at the CU FS Department of B
            training students in the master’s and doctoral programs. For many years he was also a co-o

            competition for high school students in the Biology Olympics.




            September, 2019