Tereza Tichá
About
I am a plant biologist focusing on molecular signaling pathways and developmental biology. I am currently working as a Postdoctoral researcher in Thorsten Hamann's group in the MultiScale section of the Department of Biology. The focus of our group is linked to understand processes during cell wall integrity maintenance in the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana.
Cell Wall Integrity (CWI) maintenance is crucial for monitoring and maintaining the integrity of plant cell walls. The CWI maintenance machinery is active during growth and development and influences responses to pathogen infection, temperature, osmotic-, salt- and drought stresses. The CWI maintenance mechanism involves receptor-like kinases and ion channels in the plasma membrane. They perceive signals arising from CWI impairment and modulate downstream signaling cascades. These lead to altered phytohormone production (Abscisic acid (ABA), Salicylic acid (SA), jasmonic acid (JA), and ethylene), gene expression, and cell wall composition/structure.
I am working on identifying novel transcriptional regulators mediating the response to impairment of primary cell wall integrity and the characterization of signal transduction elements controlling SA induction and modulating SA-controlled responses. My project will help to understand how transcription factors modulate primary cell wall composition and structure in response to CWI impairment. In parallel, the project will identify those transcription factors which can function as leads to optimize crop performance.
Education:
09/2016 -12/2020: Ph.D. in Biochemistry
Palacký University Olomouc, Faculty of Science
Thesis title: Interaction of HSP90 proteins and MAPK signalling pathway in the regulation of Arabidopsis development
09/2014 – 07/2016: MSc in Biotechnology and gene engineering
09/2012 – 05/2014: MSc in Bioorganic chemistry
Teaching at NTNU:
BI2012 - Cell biology
BI3013 - Experimental Cell and Molecular Biology
BI2015 - Molecular biology
Publications:
Bacete, L., Schulz, J., Engelsdorf, T., Bartosova, Z., Vaahtera, L., Yan, G., Gerhold, J.M., Tichá T., Øvstebø, C., Gigli-Bisceglia, N., Starheim-Johannessen, S., Margueritat, J., Kollist, H., Dehoux, T., McAdam, S., Hamann, T. (2022). THESEUS1 modulates cell wall stiffness and abscisic acid production in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(1), p.e2119258119.
Alonso Baez, L., Tichá T., Hamann, T. (2022). Cell wall integrity regulation across plant species. Plant Molecular Biology, pp.1-22.
Samakovli D.*, Tichá T.*, Vavrdová T., Ovečka M., Luptovčiak I., Zapletalová V., Kuchařová A., Křenek P., Krasylenko Y., Margaritopoulou T., Roka L., Milion D., Komis G., Hatzopoulos P., Šamaj J. (2020). YODA-HSP90 module regulates phosphorylation-dependent inactivation of SPEECHLESS to control stomatal development under acute heat stress in Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant, 13, 612–633.
Tichá T.*, Samakovli D.*, Kuchařová A., Vavrdová T, Šamaj J. (2020). Multifaceted roles of HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90 molecular chaperones in plant development. Journal of Experimental Botany, 6;71(14):3966-3985.
Samakovli D., Tichá T., Šamaj J. (2020). HSP90 chaperones regulate stomatal differentiation under normal and heat stress conditions. Plant Signaling and Behavior, 1789817.
Samakovli D.*, Tichá T.*, Vavrdová T.*, Závorková N., Pecinka A., Ovečka M., Šamaj J. (2021). HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90 proteins and YODA regulate main body axis formation during early embryogenesis. Plant Physiology.
Takac T., Křenek P., Komis G., Vadovic P., Ovecka M., Ohnoutkova L., Pechan T., Kasparek P., Tichá T., Baheer J., Arick T., Šamaj J. (2021). TALEN-based HvMPK3 knock-out attenuates proteome and root hair phenotypic responses to flg22 in barley. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, 725.
Publications
2022
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Alonso Baez, Luis;
Ticha, Tereza;
Hamann, Thorsten.
(2022)
Cell wall integrity regulation across plant species.
Plant Molecular Biology
Academic literature review
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Nymark, Marianne;
Serif, Manuel;
Ticha, Tereza;
Sueldo, Daniela;
Bartosova, Zdenka;
Völker, Johannes .
(2022)
Forskerne sjekket plastforurensing. Da fant de en overraskende gjenstand.
Fosna-Folket
Popular scientific article
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Bacete, Laura;
Schulz, Julia;
Engelsdorf, Timo;
Bartosova, Zdenka;
Vaahtera, Lauri;
Yan, Guqi.
(2022)
THESEUS1 modulates cell wall stiffness and abscisic acid production in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
Academic article
2021
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Nymark, Marianne;
Völker, Johannes ;
Ticha, Tereza;
Ashcroft, Felicity;
Bartosova, Zdenka;
Serif, Manuel.
(2021)
NTNU-forskere plukket plast.
Fosna-Folket
Popular scientific article
Journal publications
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Alonso Baez, Luis;
Ticha, Tereza;
Hamann, Thorsten.
(2022)
Cell wall integrity regulation across plant species.
Plant Molecular Biology
Academic literature review
-
Nymark, Marianne;
Serif, Manuel;
Ticha, Tereza;
Sueldo, Daniela;
Bartosova, Zdenka;
Völker, Johannes .
(2022)
Forskerne sjekket plastforurensing. Da fant de en overraskende gjenstand.
Fosna-Folket
Popular scientific article
-
Bacete, Laura;
Schulz, Julia;
Engelsdorf, Timo;
Bartosova, Zdenka;
Vaahtera, Lauri;
Yan, Guqi.
(2022)
THESEUS1 modulates cell wall stiffness and abscisic acid production in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
Academic article
-
Nymark, Marianne;
Völker, Johannes ;
Ticha, Tereza;
Ashcroft, Felicity;
Bartosova, Zdenka;
Serif, Manuel.
(2021)
NTNU-forskere plukket plast.
Fosna-Folket
Popular scientific article