doc. Mgr. Markéta Šámalová, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

Person-Related Identification Information

• Assoc. Prof. Marketa Samalova, Ph.D.

Department

• Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, MU, Brno
  Central European Institute od Technolgy (CEITEC) MU, Brno

Employment - Position

• Associate Professor, Senior Researcher, PI

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 2005: PhD in Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, MU, Brno Thesis: Using a chemically inducible transcription activation system to study cytokinin metabolism and action in transgenic tobacco.
• 1999: Mgr in Plant Physiology, Faculty of Science, MU, Brno
• 1996: Bc in General Biology, Faculty of Science, MU, Brno

Employment

• 2023-: Associate Professor, Department of Experimental Biology of Plants, MU, Brno
• 2021-2023: Assistant Professor, Department of Experimental Biology of Plants, MU, Brno
• 2017-: Senior Researcher, CEITEC MU, Brno
• 2015-2017: Postdoctoral Scientist, Department of Mycology, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
• 2008-2015: Senior Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford University, UK
• 2007-2008: Manager of Nikon Oxford Molecular Imaging Centre (NOMIC), Department of Chemistry, Oxford University, UK
• 2003-2007: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford University, UK
• 1999-2001: Research Assistant, Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno

Teaching Activities

• 2023-: Molecular Plant Physiology, Department of Experimental Biology of Plants, MU, Brno
• 2023-: Plant Biotechnology Principle, Department of Experimental Biology of Plants, MU, Brno
• 2022-: Plant Cell Biology, Department of Experimental Biology of Plants, MU, Brno
• 2022-: Plant physiology for advanced students, Department of Experimental Biology of Plants, MU, Brno
• 2017-2022: Genomics practical classes, CEITEC MU, Brno
• 2013-2015: Tutor for "Plants and People" undergraduate course, Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford University, UK
• 2003-2015: Undergraduate practical classes, Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford University, UK

Scientific and Research Activities

• 2022-2024: Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
• 2017-2020: Marie Curie Fellow, South Moravian Program for Distinguished Researchers (SoMoPro)
• 2012: John Fell Research Fellowship, Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford University, UK
• 2002: Marie Curie PhD Scholarship, School of Biology, Leeds University, UK

Activities Outside University

• 2009-2015: Member of British Society for Plant Pathology (BSPP), UK
• 2009-2015: Member of Fungus Survey of Oxfordshire (FSO), UK
• 2006-2015: Member and co/founder of Oxford University Czech and Slovak Society (OUCSS), UK

Major Publications

• Keshmiri, H., Cikes, D., Samalova, M., Schindler, L., Appel, L.M., Urbanek, M., Yudushkin, I., Slade, D., Weninger, W. J., Peaucelle, A., Penninger, J., Elsayad, K. (2024) Brillouin light scattering anisotropy microscopy for imaging the viscoelastic anisotropy in living cells. Nature Photonics. doi.org/10.1038/s41566-023-01368-w
• Sandor, A., Samalova, M., Brandizzi, F., Kriechbaumer, V., Moore, I., Fricker, M.D., and Sweetlove, L. (2024) Characterization of intracellular membrane structures derived from a massive expansion of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane due to synthetic ER-membrane-resident polyproteins. Journal of Experimental Botany. 75 (1) 45-59. doi:10.1093/jxb/erad364
• Samalova, M., Melnikava, A., Elsayad, K., Peaucelle, A., Gahurova, E., Gumulec, J., Spyroglou, I. et al. (2024) Hormone-regulated expansins: Expression, localization, and cell wall biomechanics in Arabidopsis root growth. Plant Physiology. 194 (1), 209–228. doi:10.1093/plphys/kiad228
• Samalova, M., Flamant, P., Beau, R., Bromley, M., Moya-Nilges, M., Fontaine T., Latge, J.-P. and Mouyna I. (2023) The new GPI-anchored protein, SwgA, is involved in nitrogen metabolism in the pathogenic filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus. Journal of Fungi. 9, 1-15.
• Samalova, M., Gahurova, E. and Hejatko, J. (2022) Expansin-mediated developmental and adaptive responses – a matter of cell wall biomechanics? Quantitative Plant Biology J, 1-14.
• Samalova, M. and Moore, I. (2021) The steroid-inducible pOp6/LhGR gene expression system is fast, sensitive and does not cause plant growth defects in rice (Oryza sativa). BMC Plant Biology, 21, 461.
• Samalova, M., Carr, P., Bromley, M., Blatzer, M., Moya-Nilges, M., Latge, J.-P. and Mouyna, I. (2020) GPI anchored proteins in Aspergullus fumigatus and cell wall morphogenesis. Current Topics in Microbiology and Innunology, 1-20.
• Samalova, M., Kirchhelle, C. and Moore, I. (2019) Universal methods for transgene induction using the dexamethasone-inducible transcription activation system pOp6/LhGR in Arabidopsis and other plant species. Current Protocols in Plant Biol, 4, e20089.
• Samalova, M., Melida, H., Vilaplana, F., Bulone, V., Soanes, D.M., Talbot, N.J. and Gurr, S.J. (2017) The β-1,3-glucanosyltransferases (Gels) affect the structure of the rice blast fungal cell wall during appressorium-mediated plant infection. Cellular Microbiology, 19, e12659.
• Samalova, M., Meyer, A., Gurr, S. and Fricker, M. (2014) Robust anti-oxidant defences in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae confer tolerance to the host oxidative burst. New Phytologist, 201, 556-573.
• Samalova, M., Johnson, J., Illes, M., Kelly, S., Fricker, M. and Gurr, S. (2013) Nitric oxide generated by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae drives plant infection. New Phytologist, 197, 207-222.
• Martinez, D. A., Oliver, B.G., Gräser, Y., Goldberg, J.M., Li, W., Martinez-Rossi, N.M., Monod, M., Shelest, E., Barton, R.C., Birch, E., Brakhage, A.A., Chen, Z., Gurr, S.J., Heiman, D., Heitman, J., Kosti, I., Rossi, A., Saif, S., Samalova, M., Saunders, C. W., Shea, T., Summerbell, R.C., Xu, J., Young, S., Zeng,Q., Birren, B.W., Cuomo, C.A. and White, T.C. (2012) Comparative genome analysis of Trichophyton rubrum and related dermatophytes reveals candidate genes involved in infection. mBio, 3, e00259-12.
• Gurr, S., Samalova, M. and Fisher, M. (2011) The rise and rise of emerging infectious fungi challenges food security and ecosystem health. Fungal Biol Rev, 25, 181-188.
• Green, M., Williamson, P., Samalova, M., Davis, J., Brovelli, S., Dobson, P. and Cacialli, F. (2009) Synthesis of type II/type I CdTe/CdS/ZnS quantum dots and their use in cellular imaging. J Materials Chem, 19, 8341-8346.
• Pinheiro, H., Samalova, M., Geldner, N., Chory, J., Martinez, A. and Moore, I. (2009) Genetic evidence that the higher plant Rab-D1 and Rab-D2 GTPases exhibit distinct but overlapping interactions in the early secretory pathway. J Cell Science, 122, 3749-3758.
• Samalova, M., Fricker, M. and Moore, I. (2008) Quantitative and qualitative analysis of plant membrane traffic using fluorescent proteins. In Methods in Cell Biology, Fluorescent Proteins, 2nd Edition, K.F. Sullivan (ed.), Academic Press, 85, 353-380.
• Samalova, M., Fricker, M. and Moore, I. (2006) Ratiometric fluorescence-imaging assays of plant membrane traffic using polyproteins. Traffic, 7, 1701-1723.
• Moore, I., Samalova, M. and Kurup, S. (2006) Transactivated and chemically inducible gene expression in plants. Plant J. 45, 651-683
• Samalova, M., Brzobohaty, B. and Moore, I. (2005) pOp6/LhGR: a stringently regulated and highly responsive dexamethasone-inducible gene expression system for tobacco. Plant J. 41, 919-935.
• Craft, J., Samalova, M., Baroux, C., Townley, H., Martinez, A., Jepson, I., Tsiantis, M. and Moore, I. (2005) New pOp/LhG4 vectors for stringent glucocorticoid-dependent transgene expression in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 41, 899-918.

Recent Publications

• ŠÁMALOVÁ, Markéta, Alesia MELNIKAVA, Kareem ELSAYAD, Alexis PEAUCELLE, Evelína GAHUROVÁ, Jaromír GUMULEC, Ioannis SPYROGLOU, Elena V ZEMLYANSKAYA, Elena V UBOGOEVA, Darina BALKOVÁ, Martin DEMKO, Nicolas BLAVET, Panagiotis ALEXIOU, Vladimir BENES, Gregory MOUILLE a Jan HEJÁTKO. Hormone-regulated expansins: Expression, localization, and cell wall biomechanics in Arabidopsis root growth. Plant Physiology. CARY: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2024, roč. 194, č. 1, s. 209-228. ISSN 0032-0889. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiad228. URL info
• SANDOR, Andras, Markéta ŠÁMALOVÁ, Federica BRANDIZZI, Verena KRIECHBAUMER, Ian MOORE, Mark D. FRICKER a Fricker SWEETLOVE. Characterization of intracellular membrane structures derived from a massive expansion of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane due to synthetic ER-membrane-resident polyproteins. Journal of Experimental Botany. Oxford University Press, 2024, roč. 75, č. 1, s. 45-59. ISSN 0022-0957. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad364. URL info
• ŠÁMALOVÁ, Markéta, Patricia FLAMANT, Rémi BEAU, Mike BROMLEY, Maryse MOYA-NILGES, Thierry FONTAINE, Jean-Paul LATGÉ a Isabelle MOUYNA. The New GPI-Anchored Protein, SwgA, Is Involved in Nitrogen Metabolism in the Pathogenic Filamentous Fungus Aspergillus fumigatus. Journal of Fungi. MDPI, 2023, roč. 9, č. 2, s. 1-15. ISSN 2309-608X. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof9020256. URL info
• GAHUROVÁ, Evelína, Jan HEJÁTKO a Markéta ŠÁMALOVÁ. Exploring the role of cell-type specific expansin overexpression in the control of cell wall biomechanical properties and root growth of Arabidopsis. In IX Cell Wall Research Conference. 2022. odkaz na web info
• ŠÁMALOVÁ, Markéta a Ian MOORE. The steroid-inducible pOp6/LhGR gene expression system is fast, sensitive and does not cause plant growth defects in rice (Oryza sativa). BMC Plant Biology. London: BioMed Central Ltd., 2021, roč. 21, č. 1, s. 461-475. ISSN 1471-2229. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12870-021-03241-w. URL info
• ŠÁMALOVÁ, Markéta, P. CARR, M. BROMLEY, M. BLATZER, M. MOYA-NILGES, J.-P. LATGE a I. MOUYNA. GPI anchored proteins in Aspergullus fumigatus and cell wall morphogenesis. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology. 2020, s. 1-20. info
• ŠÁMALOVÁ, Markéta, C. KIRCHHELLE a I. MOORE. Universal Methods for Transgene Induction Using the Dexamethasone-Inducible Transcription Activation System pOp6/LhGR in Arabidopsis and Other Plant Species. 2019. ISSN 2379-8068. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cppb.20089. URL info

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