Klodová Božena

Božena obtained her PhD in the Laboratory of Pollen at the Czech Academy of Sciences in 2024, where she employed multi-omic approaches to investigate gene expression dynamics during pollen development. She also worked on functional characterisation of conserved cytoplasmic chaperones that play a key role in plant development and stress response in Arabidopsis and Marchantia polymorpha. In September 2024, Božena joined the Functional Phosphoproteomics group at VIB. Her current research focuses on uncovering common mechanisms underlying heat and cold thermotolerance responses in Arabidopsis and Soybean. She aims to identify key sensor elements that trigger these response pathways using both phosphoproteomics and functional studies.