RNDr. Kateřina Čapková, Ph.D.

Mgr. at the Charles University of Prague, dept. of Botany (Phycology research group)

2011 - 2016  Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia
                     Ph.D. programme Ecosystem Biology
PhD. Thesis: Biological soil crusts of cold deserts of W Himalaya
 

• Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Hydrobiology (since 2014)
• Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences (since 2011)

Grants

• 2014-2016 GA ČR 16-09381S: „Bioactive cyanobacterial lipopeptides: genome mining,
  detection, and structure-activity relationships “, research team member
• 2014-2016 GA ČR 14-18067S „Toxic potential, evolution of toxin synthesis, and factors driving anatoxin-a production in benthic and soil nostocacean cyanobacteria“ team member
• Arcitc Field Grant 2014: Potential activity of microbial community in the Biological Soil Crusts in the glacial  forefield of Werenskioldbreen glacier, principal investigator
• 2013-2017 13-13368S: „Migration of vascular plants into the subnival zone: the role of mutual interaction under the climatic changes“ reserach team member

PUBLICATIONS

Čapková K., Hauer T., Řeháková K., Doležal J. (2016): Some like it high! Phylogenic diversity of high-elevation cyanobacterial community from biological soil crusts of Western Himalaya. Microbial Ecology 71(1): 113-123.

Doležal J., Dvorský M.,Kopecký M., Liancourt P., Hiiesalu I. Macek M., Altman J.,
Chlumská Z., Řeháková K., Čapková K., Borovec J., Mudrák O., Wild J., Schweingruber F. (2016): Vegetation dynamics at the uppermost limit for vascular plants in Himalaya. Scientific Reports 6

Gomez, E. B., Johansen, J. R., Kaštovský, J., Bohunická, M. & Čapková, K. (2016): Macrochaete gen. nov. (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria), a taxon morphologically and molecularly distinct from Calothrix. Journal of Phycology 52(4)

Dvorsky M., Chlumska Z., Altman J., Čapková K., Rehakova K., Macek M., Kopecký M., Liancourt P., Dolezal J.: (2016): Gardening in the zone of death: an experimental assessment of the absolute elevation limit of vascular plants. Scientific Reports 6

Řeháková K., Doležal J., Chroňáková A., Krištůfek V., Kuchtová B., Čapková K., Scharfen
J., Čapek P. (2015): Bacterial community of cushion plant Thylacospermum ceaspitosum on elevational gradient in the Himalayan cold desert. Frontiers in Microbiology 6   

Dvorský M., Altman J., Kopecký M., Chlumská Z., Řeháková K., Janatková K. &
Doležal J. (2015): Vascular plants at extreme elevations in Eastern Ladakh, North-west Himalayas  Plant Ecology & Diversity  8(4): 571-584

Janatková K., Řeháková K., Doležal J., Šimek M., Kopecký M. (2013) : Community  structure of soil phototrophs along environmental gradients in arid Himalaya.  Environmental Microbiology 15(9): 2505-2516

Ashenbach, K., Conrad, R., Rehakova, K., Dolezal, J., Janatkova, K., Angel, R (2013): Methanogens at the top of the world: occurrence and potential activity of methanogens in newly deglaciated soils in high-altitude cold deserts in the Western Himalayas.  Frontiers in Microbiology 4

Dvorský M., Doležal J., Kopecký M., Chlumská Z., Janatková K., Altman J., de Bello F., Řeháková K. (2013): Testing the Stress-Gradient Hypothesis at the Roof of the World: Effects of the Cushion Plant Thylacospermum caespitosum on Species Assemblages. Plos One 8(1)

Pichrtová, M.,  Janatkova, K.,  Nemcova, Y. (2011): Silica-scaled chrysophytes from Abisko (Swedish Lapland). Nordic Journa of Botany  29: 112-118.

Janatková, K. & Němcová, Y. (2009): Silica-scaled chrysophytes of Southern Bohemian water bodies, including Mallomonas conspersa Dürrschmidt with occurrence so far reported from Japan and New Zealand. Fottea 9: 93-99.