A tribute to Vilem Zachleder (1944-2020)

0544002 - MBÚ 2022 GB eng J - Journal Article
Bišová, Kateřina - Brányiková, Irena
A tribute to Vilem Zachleder (1944-2020).
Journal of Experimental Botany. Roč. 72, č. 7 (2021), s. 2273-2274. ISSN 0022-0957. E-ISSN 1460-2431
Institutional support: RVO:61388971
OECD category: Plant sciences, botany
Impact factor: 7.378, year: 2021
Method of publishing: Open access

Vilém Zachleder, founder and a long-term head of the Laboratory of Cell Cycles of Algae at the Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, died suddenly on 26 August 2020. Vilém was one of the pioneers who turned to algae decades before they were (re-)discovered in the boom in algae-derived biofuels that has taken place since 2000. Driven by a powerful curiosity into what made the cells grow and divide, he paid little attention to what people considered fashionable. With the help of an extremely skilled and devoted technician, A. Kubínová, he almost single-handedly turned one green alga, Scenedesmus quadricauda, into a well-characterized and unique model system for studying the cell cycle. He then left it as a starting point for those who came after him.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0321074