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GET TO KNOW OUR TEAM

Home  Ι  Team

Ing. Radek Černý, PhD. – head of our team

Radek Černý

cerny@ueb.cas.cz

(+420 ) 225 106 492

Radek gained invaluable experience with fruit growing and breeding abroad. While working in Germany, he accidentally visited our station in 2007. After joining our team two years later, he learned a lot from our founder J. Tupý over time and in 2016 became the head. Besides leading our team, Radek is responsible for communication with our German-speaking business partners, managing breeding and research projects, applying newselections for Plant Variety Rights, drafting license agreements, and also takes part in promotional and commercialisation activities. He is a proud member of the expert committee Fachkommission Kernobst.

Seat of IEB in Prague

Rozvojová 313 (Building B2)

CZ-165 02 Prague 6 - Lysolaje

Czech Republic

Seat of Institute of Experimental Botany

Ing. Miloslav Juříček, CSc. – researcher

Miloslav Juříček

juricek@ueb.cas.cz

(+420 ) 225 106 410

Miloslav draws upon his long-term experience in bioinformatics and a broad array of molecular techniques. He therefore plays an invaluable role in our research and analyses that help us with breeding and evaluating our newselections.

Mgr. Věra Forejtová – administration

Věra Forejtová

forejtova@ueb.cas.cz

(+420 ) 225 106 493

Věra is dedicated to plant variety rights, commercialisation, promotional, and other administrative tasks, and is partly engaged in our research. She is also a member of the Managing Board of Jaroslav Tupý Endowment Fund that was established in honour of the remarkable scientist, breeder, and founder of our station J. Tupý.

Mgr. Veronika Janečková – administration

Veronika Janečková

maternity leave

Now on maternity leave, Veronika was mainly responsible for activities related to plant variety rights, variety commercialisation, promotion and other administrative tasks. She also helped to establish and was engaged in Jaroslav Tupý Endowment Fund.

Květa Rabochová – lab technician

Květoslava Rabochová

rabochova@ueb.cas.cz

(+420 ) 225 106 491

Květoslava (or Květa) is responsible for various lab tasks and analyses that help us in the evaluation of promising apple selections.

Breeding Station Střížovice

Střížovice 20

CZ-463 45 Pěnčín

Czech Republic

Station Střížovice

RNDr. Dimitrij Tyč, PhD. – researcher, breeder, and deputy head

Dimitrij Tyč

tyc@ueb.cas.cz

(+420 ) 485 177 430

Dimitrij has participated in many projects focused on mapping and determination of apple varieties. He is mainly engaged in breeding, research, and promotional tasks. One of his strong suits is also communication with our English-speaking partners.

Ing. Zuzana Jelínková (Krčková), PhD. - researcher

Zuzana Jelínková - Krčková

maternity leave

Currently on maternity leave, Zuzana used to be specialised especially in carrying out various analyses and other laboratory and scientific tasks.

Ing. Jan Zima - grower and breeder

Jan Zima

ueb.strizovice@seznam.cz

(+420 ) 485 177 430

Jan has impressive knowledge of everything that revolves around apples, gardening, and even more. His decades-long experience is particularly helpful in growing and breeding.

Ing. Otto Louda (Jr.) - grower and breeder

Otto Louda Jr.

ueb.strizovice@seznam.cz

(+420 ) 485 177 430

Otto inherited passion for apples from his father Otto Louda Sr., who helped establish the breeding station in 1955 and bred several famous varieties (e.g. Rubín, Shampion) there. Otto Jr. later became part of the team himself as a grower and co-breeder.

Mgr. Jaroslav Kozák - grower and technician

Jaroslav Kozák

ueb.strizovice@seznam.cz
kozak@ueb.cas.cz

(+420 ) 485 177 430

Jaroslav also takes part in the fieldwork revolving around apple growing and breeding, including maintenance of machines and other indispensable tasks.

Zdeněk Haleš, DiS. - grower and breeder

Zdeněk Haleš

ueb.strizovice@seznam.cz
hales@ueb.cas.cz

(+420 ) 485 177 430

Zdeněk carries out tasks related to growing, breeding and selection. He also has the responsibility for making sure that the seedlings in our modern greenhouse are well catered for.

Zdeněk Mikula - technician

Zdeněk Mikula

ueb.strizovice@seznam.cz

(+420 ) 485 177 430

Zdeněk is responsible for many field activities such as maintenance of machines and equipment and overall technical support.

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Contact us

Station of Apple Breeding for Disease Resistance • Institute of Experimental Botany • Czech Academy of Sciences

Rozvojová 313 • CZ-16500 Praha 6 • Czech Republic
cerny@ueb.cas.cz • (+420) 604 314 348

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