Position: scientist
Branch: Department of Adaptive Biotechnologies
Branch: Department of Smart Biotechnologies
Workplace: ÚVGZ AV ČR, v. v. i.Drásov 470Drásov664 24
Email: segecova.a@czechglobe.cz
Phone: +420 608 449 219
Research Focus
algae; plant tissue culture techniques; chlorophyll fluorescence; chemometrics; ecotoxicology; bio-production optimization; biotechnology
Education
- 2013-2019: Ph.D. in Ecotoxicology, dissertation on the use of photoautotrophic cultures for high throughput screening of toxic compounds by fluorescence imaging, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno (supervisor prof. T. Roitsch)
- 2011 – 2013: M.Sc. degree in Plant Physiology at Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno.
Appointments
- 2021 onwards: Postdoc at Department of Adaptive Biotechnologies, Global Change Research Institute CAS, Drásov
- 2019-2020: Postdoc at C3 – Climate Change Cluster, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- 2013-2019: PhD candidate, Department of Adaptive Biotechnologies, Global Change Research Institute CAS, Drásov
- 2013: Laboratory Technician, Department of Adaptive Biotechnologies, Global Change Research Centre CAS, Drásov
- 2011 – 2013: Laboratory Technician, Department of Experimental Phycology and Ecotoxicology, Institute of Botany CAS, Brno
Important research visits and fellowships
- 2017: Short term scientific mission at The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plants, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Granada, Spain
- 2016: Research stay at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2015: Research stay at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Brief scientometrics
Macdonald Miller, S., Abbriano, R. M., Segecova, A., Herdean, A., Ralph, P. J., & Pernice, M. (2022). Comparative Study Highlights the Potential of Spectral Deconvolution for Fucoxanthin Screening in Live Phaeodactylum tricornutum Cultures. Marine Drugs, 20(19), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.3390/md20010019
Supasri, K. M., Kumar, M., Segečová, A., McCauley, J. I., Herdean, A., Meara, T. O., Ralph, P. J., & Padula, M. P. (2021). Characterisation and Bioactivity Analysis of Peridinin-Chlorophyll a -Protein ( PCP ) Isolated from Symbiodinium tridacnidorum CS-73. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 9(1387), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9121387
Segečová, A., Pérez-Bueno, M. L., Barón, M., Červený, J., & Roitsch, T. G. (2019). Noninvasive determination of toxic stress biomarkers by high-throughput screening of photoautotrophic cell suspension cultures with multicolor fluorescence imaging. Plant Methods, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-019-0484-y
Segečová, A., Červený, J., & Roitsch, T. (2018). Advancement of the cultivation and upscaling of photoautotrophic suspension cultures using Chenopodium rubrum as a case study. Plant Cell Tiss Organ Cult. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11240-018-1441-6
Segečová, A., Červený, J., & Roitsch, T. (2017). Stress Response Monitoring of Photoautotrophic Higher Plant Suspension Cultures by Fluorescence Imaging for High-Throughput Toxic Compound Screening. Journal of Environmental Protection, 8(06), 678.