HR Excellence in Science

Ing. Zdenko Gardian, Ph.D.

Position Research Scientist - Laboratory of Electron Microscopy
Section of Supporting Facilities
Institute of Parasitology

Contact details +420 38 777 5459
gardian@prf.jcu.cz
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My main focus is structural biology of macrocomplexes, studied by cryo-electron microscopy.

Education: Ing. 2002-The Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Ph.D. 2009-Institute of Physical Biology of the University of South Bohemia, Postdoctoral Fellow 2010 University of Auckland-New Zealand.


Total found: 31 records
Hovorková M., Kaščáková B. , Petrásková L., Havlíčková P., Nováček J., Pinkas D., Gardian Z., Křen V., Bojarová P., Kutá Smatanová I. (2024) The variable structural flexibility of the Bacillus circulans β-galactosidase isoforms determines their unique functionalities Structure 32: 2023–2037.e5.
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2024.09.005
Tomasch J., Kopejtka K., Bílý T., Gardiner A.T., Gardian Z., Shivaramu S., Koblížek M., Kaftan D. (2024) A photoheterotrophic bacterium from Iceland has adapted its photosynthetic machinery to the long days of polar summer mSystems 9: e01311-23.
DOI: 10.1128/msystems.01311-23
Gardiner A.T., Mujakic I., Bína D., Gardian Z., Kopejtka K., Nupur , Qian P., Koblížek M. (2023) Characterisation of the photosynthetic complexes from the marine gammaproteobacterium Congregibacter litoralis KT71 Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergetics 1864(2): 148946.
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2022.148946
Mazanec H., Bušková N., Gardian Z., Kuchta R. (2023) Secretion of extracellular vesicles during ontogeny of the tapeworm Schistocephalus solidus Folia Parasitologica 70: 003.
DOI: 10.14411/fp.2023.003
Kopejtka K., Tomasch J., Kaftan D., Gardiner A.T., Bína D., Gardian Z., Bellas C., Dröge A., Geffers R., Sommaruga R., Koblížek M. (2022) A bacterium from a mountain lake harvests light using both proton-pumping xanthorhodopsins and bacteriochlorophyll-based photosystems PNAS 119: e2211018119.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2211018119 
Kopejtka K., Zeng Y., Kaftan D., Selyanin V., Gardian Z., Tomasch J., Sommaruga R., Koblížek M. (2021) Characterization of the aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium sphingomonas sp. Aap5 Microorganisms 9: 768.
DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9040768
Mazanec H., Konik P., Gardian Z., Kuchta R. (2021) Extracellular vesicles secreted by model tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta: biogenesis, ultrastructure and protein composition International Journal for Parasitology 51: 327–332.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2020.09.010
Monikh F.A., Chupani L., Karkossa I., Gardian Z., Arenas-Lago D., von Bergen M., Schubert K., Piačková V. , Zusková E., Jiskoot W., Vijver M.G., Peijnenburg W.J.G.M. (2021) An environmental ecocorona influences the formation and evolution of the biological corona on the surface of single-walled carbon nanotubes NanoImpact 22: 100315.
DOI: 10.1016/j.impact.2021.100315
Pascual-Aznar G., Konert G., Bečková M., Kotabová E., Gardian Z., Knoppová J., Bučinská L., Kaňa R., Sobotka R., Komenda J. (2021) Psb35 Protein Stabilizes the CP47 Assembly Module and Associated High-Light Inducible Proteins during the Biogenesis of Photosystem II in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 Plant and Cell Physiology 62: 178-190.
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcaa148
Kopejtka K., Tomasch J., Zeng Y., Selyanin V., Daschev M., Piwosz K., Tichý M., Bína D., Bunk B., Gardian Z., Brinkmann H., Geffers R., Sommaruga R., Koblížek M. (2020) Simultaneous presence of bacteriochlorophyll and xanthorhodopsin genes in a freshwater bacterium mSystems 5 (6): e01044-20.
DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.01044-20
Stanek O., Linhartova I., Holubová J., Bumba J., Gardian Z., Malandra A., Bockova B., Teruya S., Horiguchi Y., Sebo P. (2020) Production of Highly Active Recombinant Dermonecrotic Toxin ofBordetella Pertussis TOXINS 12: 596.
DOI: 10.3390/toxins12090596
Litvín R., Bína D., Herbstová M., Pazderník M., Kotabová E., Gardian Z., Trtílek M., Prášil O., Vácha F. (2019) Red-shifted light-harvesting system of freshwater eukaryotic alga Trachydiscus minutus (Eustigmatophyta, Stramenopila) Photosynthesis Research 142 (2): 137-151.
DOI: 10.1007/s11120-019-00662-5
Khoroshyy P., Bína D., Gardian Z., Litvín R., Alster J., Pšenčík J. (2018) Quenching of chlorophyll triplet states by carotenoids in algal light-harvesting complexes related to fucoxanthin-chlorophyll protein Photosynthesis Research 135: 213–225.
DOI: 10.1007/s11120-017-0416-5
Streckaite S., Gardian Z., Li F., Litvín R., Pascal A.A., Robert B., Llansola-Portoles M. (2018) Pigment configuration in the light-harvesting protein of the xanthophyte alga Xanthonema debile Photosynthesis Research 138 (2): 139-148.
DOI: 10.1007/s11120-018-0557-1
Bečková M., Gardian Z., Yu J., Koník P., Nixon P., Komenda J. (2017) Association of Psb28 and Psb27 proteins with PSII-PSI supercomplexes upon exposure of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 to high light Molecular Plant 10 (1): 62-72.
DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2016.08.001
Bína D., Herbstová M., Gardian Z., Litvín R. (2017) Modular antenna of photosystem I in secondary plastids of red algal origin: a Nannochloropsis oceanica case study Photosynthesis Research 131 (3): 255-266.
DOI: 10.1007/s11120-016-0315-1
Dachev M., Bína D., Sobotka R., Moravcová L., Gardian Z., Kaftan D., Šlouf V., Fuciman M., Polívka T., Koblížek M. (2017) Unique double concentric ring organization of light harvesting complexes in Gemmatimonas phototrophica. PLoS Biology 15(12): e2003943.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2003943
Bína D., Gardian Z., Vácha F., Litvín R. (2016) Native FMO-reaction center supercomplex in green sulfur bacteria: an electron microscopy study Photosynthesis Research 128 (1): 93-102.
DOI: 10.1007/s11120-015-0205-y
Bína D., Herbstová M., Gardian Z., Vácha F., Litvín R. (2016) Novel structural aspect of the diatom thylakoid membrane: lateral segregation of photosystem I under red-enhanced illumination Scientific Reports 6: 25583.
DOI: 10.1038/srep25583
Litvín R., Bína D., Herbstová M., Gardian Z. (2016) Architecture of the light-harvesting apparatus of the eustigmatophyte alga Nannochloropsis oceanica Photosynthesis research 130: 137-150.
DOI: 10.1007/s11120-016-0234-1

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