Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre SAS
Topic
Identification of the role of the SYT3 gene in plant ontogenesis and responses to environmental stresses
PhD. program
plant physiology
Year of admission
2026
Name of the supervisor
doc. RNDr. Ján Jásik, DrSc.
Contact:
Receiving school
Faculty of Natural Sciences Comenius University
Annotation
Synaptotagmins, calcium sensors in animal neurons, have been studied in detail, but their discovery in plants was surprising. In the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana, SYT1 is involved in responses to various environmental stresses. The role of other members of this family has been poorly explored so far. The doctoral thesis focuses on the SYT3 gene in the model organisms of terrestrial plants, Arabidopsis thaliana and Physcomitrium patens. The gene will be characterized in detail using standard methods of gene expression analysis at multiple levels, including GUS, GFP, and qPCR; analysis of available T-DNA insertion mutants; and knockdown/out lines generated by homologous recombination and CRISPR/Cas9.