Radim Svacina

Postdoctoral Fellows

Postdoctoral Fellow

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3288-WS07

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Biography

Radim Svačina joined the Wulff Lab in August of 2022 as a Postdoctoral Researcher. He obtained his PhD degree from Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. His previous research was conducted in the Institute of Experimental Botany AS CR, Olomouc, Czech Republic and in INRA, Clermont-Ferrand, France. It was focused on physical mapping of Ph2 in hexaploid wheat, a major gene affecting chromosome pairing in meiosis. The mapping was performed through phenotyping deletion lines.
Currently, he is working on the creation of a wheat rust resistance gene library. This tool will serve as a foundation for building durable rust resistance in wheat, with the aim of obtaining a resistant wheat cultivar fit for agricultural deployment.

Research Interests

Radim’s research interests include plant resistance genes and their practical uses in agriculture. He is also engaged in perfecting a high molecular weight DNA isolation protocol from plants, which he uses for Oxford Nanopore Technologies sequencing.

Selected Publications

  • Plant Gametogenesis, Methods and Protocols, Serra H., Svačina R., Bartoš J., Sourdille P., Methods in Molecular Biology, 2022, 2484:183–199.
  • Ph2 encodes the mismatch repair protein MSH7-3D that inhibits wheat homoeologous recombination, Serra H., Svačina R., Baumann U., Whitford R., Sutton T., Bartoš J., Sourdille P., 2021, Nature Communications, 12:803.
  • Chromosome Pairing in Polyploid Grasses, Svačina R., Sourdille P., Kopecký D., Bartoš J., 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science 11:1056.
  • Comparative analyses of DNA repeats and identification of a novel Fesreba centromeric element in fescues and ryegrasses, Zwyrtková J., Němečková A., Čížková J., Holušová K., Kapustová V., Svačina R., Kopecký D., Till B.J., Doležel J., Hřibová E., 2020, BMC Plant Biology 20:280.
  • Development of Deletion Lines for Chromosome 3D of Bread Wheat, Svačina R., Karafiátová M., Malurová M., Serra H., Vítek D., Endo T.R., Sourdille P., Bartoš J., 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science, 10:1756.
  • Molecular and Cytogenetic Study of East African Highland Banana, Němečková A., Christelová P., Čížková J., Nyine M., houwe I.V. den, Svačina R., Uwimana B., Swennen R., Doležel J., Hřibová E., 2018, Frontiers in Plant Science 9:1371.
  • The Coiled-Coil NLR Rph1, Confers Leaf Rust Resistance in Barley Cultivar Sudan, Dracatos P.M., Barto¡ J., Elmansour H., Singh D., Karafiátová M., Zhang P., Steuernagel B., Svačina R., Cobbin J.C.A., Clark B., Hoxha S., Khatkar M.S., Doležel J., Wulff B.B., Park R.F., 2018, Plant Physiology 179:1362–1372.

Education

  • PhD, Molecular and Cell Biology, Bartoš Group, Centre of Plant Structural and Functional Genomics, Institute of Experimental Botany AS CR, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 2021
  • MSc, Molecular and Cell Biology, Bartoš Group, Centre of Plant Structural and Functional Genomics, Institute of Experimental Botany AS CR, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 2016
  • BSc, Molecular and Cell Biology, Novák Group, Department of Botany, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 2014

KAUST Affiliations

Research Interests Keywords

disease resistance rust resistance HMW DNA Golden Gate cloning