RNDr. Barbora Vošlajerová , roz. Bímová, Ph.D.

Position: post-docs
Research topics: Behavioural genetics
Department: Department of Population Biology
Phone: +420 568 422 194
E-mail: barabimovacentrum.cz

Relevant expertise:

  • Behavioural genetics – the study of genetic and environmental contribution to individual variation in behaviour; molecular and genetic analyses of behavioural phenotypes (mate choice and male aggressiveness) in model organism - the house mouse; molecular and behavioural methods in ecological studies.
  • Hybrid zones and speciation - The role of behavioural phenotypes in speciation (house mouse, bats), behavioural and genetic study of the prezygotic isolation barriers in the house mouse hybrid zone.

    Education:

  • 2002 - 2008 PhD student in zoology, Department of Zoology, Charles University, Prague. PhD thesis: Behavioural and genetic study of fitness compounds in mammalian hybrid zone
  • 1999-2002: Graduate student in Ecology and Ethology, Department of Zoology, Charles University, Prague. 2002 - Mgr.; Thesis: The role of salivary proteins on reproductive isolation between house mice, Mus domesticus and Mus musculus.
  • 1997-1999: Undergraduate student in Biology, Department of Zoology, Charles University, Prague. 1999 - Thesis: Aggressive behaviour in the house mouse Mus m. domesticus and Mus m. musculus.
  • 1992-1997 high school, Bilingual Czech-French lyceum J. Nerudy, Prague. 1997 – Certificate in French language.

    Professional career:

  • 2009 at present: Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics AS CR, v. v. i.
  • 2001 at present: Department of Population Biology, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,v. v. i., Květná 8, CZ-603 65 Brno, Czech Republic
  • 2005-2006: Scientific assistant at Department of zoology and ecology, Masaryk University, Brno, Kotlářská 2, Brno, part time job.
  • 2002-2005: PhD student and assistant at Biodiversity research group, Department of Zoology, Charles University in Prague, Prague.



    Projects

    Qunatitative trait loci (QTL) for male aggression in the house mouse