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Martina Pičmanová

Martina Pičmanová

Personal Details

Name : Martina Pičmanová
Email address :martina.picmanova@ed.ac.uk
Nationality : Czech
Position : Postdoctoral research associate

Qualifications

  • BSc (Molecular Biology)Faculty of Science, Department of Plant Experimental Biology, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic (2005-2008)
  • MSc (Plant Biology) Faculty of Science, Department of Plant Experimental Biology, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic (2008-2010)
  • PhD (Plant Biochemistry) Faculty of Science, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2012-2016)

Research and funding

  • Significance of hetero-trans-β-glucanase (HTG) in cell wall metabolism of horsetails and genetically engineered cereals
  • Research funding: BBSRC (June 2017-December 2018)

Previous Research Interests

  • Metabolism of cyanogenic glycosides in crops
  • Biosynthesis of isoflavonoids in leguminous and non-leguminous plants
  • Nitrilases in rhodococci

Publications

  • Del Cueto J, Ionescu IA, Pičmanová M, Gericke O, Motawia MS, Olsen CE, Campoy JA, Dicenta F, Møller BL, Sánchez-Pérez R. 2017. Cyanogenic glucosides and derivatives in almond and sweet cherry flower buds from dormancy to flowering. Front Plant Sci. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00800
  • Gray CJ, Schindler B, Migas LG, Pičmanová M, Allouche AR, Green AP, Mandal S, Motawia MS, Sánchez-Pérez R, Bjarnholt N, Møller BL, Rijs AM, Barran PE, Compagnon I, Eyers CE, Flitsch SL. 2017. Bottom-Up elucidation of glycosidic bond stereochemistry. Anal Chem. 89(8): 4540-4549.
  • Nielsen LJ, Stuart P, Pičmanová M, Rasmussen S, Olsen CE, Harholt J, Møller BL, Bjarnholt N. 2016. Dhurrin metabolism in the developing grain of Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench investigated by metabolite profiling and novel clustering analyses of time-resolved transcriptomic data. BMC Genomics. 17(1): 1021.
  • Pičmanová M, Møller BL. 2016. Apiose: one of nature's witty games. Glycobiology 26(5): 430-442.
  • Pičmanová M, Neilson EH, Motawia MS, Olsen CE, Agerbirk N, Gray CJ, Flitsch S, Meier S, Silvestro D, Jørgensen K, Sánchez-Pérez R, Møller BL, Bjarnholt N. 2015. A recycling pathway for cyanogenic glycosides evidenced by the comparative metabolic profiling in three cyanogenic plant species. Biochem J. 469(3): 375-389.
  • Lai D, Pičmanová M, Abou Hachem M, Motawia MS, Olsen CE, Møller BL, Rook F, Takos AM. 2015. Lotus japonicus flowers are defended by a cyanogenic β-glucosidase with highly restricted expression to essential reproductive organs. Plant Mol Biol. 89(1-2): 21-34.
  • Kaplan O, Veselá AB, Petříčková A, Pasquarelli F, Pičmanová M, Rinágelová A, Bhalla TC, Pátek M, Martínková L. 2013. A comparative study of nitrilases identified by genome mining. Mol Biotechnol. 54(3): 996-1003.
  • Pičmanová M, Reňák D, Feciková J, Růžička P, Mikšátková P, Lapčík O, Honys D. 2013. Functional expression and subcellular localization of pea polymorphic isoflavone synthase CYP93C18. Biol Plant. 57(4): 635-645.
  • Veselá AB, Pelantová H, Sulc M, Macková M, Lovecká P, Thimová M, Pasquarelli F, Pičmanová M, Pátek M, Bhalla TC, Martínková L. 2012. Biotransformation of benzonitrile herbicides via the nitrile hydratase-amidase pathway in rhodococci. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol. 39(12): 1811-1819.
  • Busche T, Šilar R, Pičmanová M, Pátek M, Kalinowski J. 2012. Transcriptional regulation of the operon encoding stress-responsive ECF sigma factor SigH and its anti-sigma factor RshA, and control of its regulatory network in Corynebacterium glutamicum. BMC Genomics. 13: 445.

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