Iva Mozgová Lab

Epigenetic mechanisms underlie plant responses to environmental conditions - both the rapid, short-term acclimation responses, as well as the more long-term responses, such as modulation of cell fate and development. We are interested in the Polycomb repressive complexes (PRCs) - the evolutionarily conserved histone-modifying protein complexes that control developmental phase transitions by repressing genes that are not needed at a particular time in a particular cell. We focus on the seed-to-seedling transition in flowering plants and the role of PRCs in appropriate responses to environmental conditions. We ask how PRC2 composition and function evolved from its emergence in early eukaryotes to the current state.

Open positions

We currently don´t have any open positions now. Still, you are very welcome to contact us if you are intereted in applying for an individual postdoctoral fellowship, or in a Bachelor or Master thesis project.

Group Funding

01/2025 – 12/2027 Czech Science Foundation - Standard Grant, 25-17578S, Czech Science Foundation, Iva Mozgova
01/2024 – 09/2028 MEYS, CZ: OP-JAK PHOTOMACHINES: project coordinated by Centre Algatech - IMIC,CAS
01/2020 – 12/2024 Fellowship Lumina quaeruntur, Czech Academy of Sciences, Iva Mozgova
01/2019 – 12/2023 ERC CZ, Czech Academy of Sciences, Iva Mozgova
06/2019 – 10/2021 INTER-COST, LTC19050, MEYS, Iva Mozgova
01/2016 – 12/2018 Czech Science Foundation - Junior grant, 16-08423Y, Czech Science Foundation, Iva Mozgova

Funding obtained by postdocs

2026 - 2028 MSCA-IF to Yutao Zou
2025 - 2026 MSCA-CZ to Quentin Rivière
2024 - 2025 PPLZ CAS Fellowship to María Carbó
2023 - 2024 ERA Fellowship to Rafał Krela
2023 - 2024 MSCA-CZ to Fatemeh Aflaki
2021 - 2023 MSCA-IF to Mingxi Zhou
2021 - 2023 MSCA-IF to Ahamed Khan (collaboration with Sara Farrona´s lab, NUI Galway, Ireland)

Funding obtained by students

2021 – 2022 GAJU (PhD student research grant), University of South Bohemia, Naseem Samo
2019 SGA (MSc student research grant), Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Kateřina Kabeláčová
2016 – 2017 GAJU (PhD student research grant), University of South Bohemia, Helena Hönig Mondeková

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