Profile

prof. Ing. Jaroslav Doležel, DrSc.

Position: 
head of centre

Phone: 
+420 585 238 703
Fax: 
+420 585 238 704
E-mail: 
dolezelatueb [dot] cas [dot] cz

Address: 
Šlechtitelů 31, 783 71 Olomouc - Holice, Czech Republic
Room number: 
110


Curriculum vitae

Academic degrees
  • M.Sc., University of Agriculture, Brno (1978), Genetics and Plant Breeding
  • Ph.D., Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague (1983), Plant Cytogenetics
  • Associate Professor, Palacký University, Olomouc (2001), Botany
  • DrSc., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2001), Genetics
Appointments
1985 – 1986 Postdoctoral Fellow, ENEA, C.R.E. Casaccia, Italy
1986 – 1989 Research Worker, Institute of Experimental Botany, Department of Plant Biotechnology, Olomouc, Czech Republic
1990 – present Head, Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics and Cytometry, Institute of Experimental Botany, Olomouc, Czech Republic
1992 – 2000 Lecturer, Palacky University, School of Natural Sciences, Department of Cellular Biology and Genetics, Olomouc, Czech Republic
2001 – present Associate Professor, Palacký University, School of Natural Sciences, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Research interests (last five years)
1989 – present Analysis of nuclear DNA content using flow cytometry; application of DNA flow cytometry in the analysis of genetic instability in vitro, systematics and taxonomy, including the analysis of intraspecific variation in genome size
1992 – present Chromosome analysis and sorting using flow cytometry; the use of flow-sorted chromosomes for physical mapping of DNA sequences, construction of chromosome-specific DNA libraries and isolation of molecular markers
1997 – present Analysis of plant genome organization using in situ hybridization and PCR in situ; isolation and characterization of repetitive DNA sequences
1999 – present Construction of large-insert DNA libraries, physical genome mapping
Research Grants Received
2 Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague (currently 1)
9 Czech Science Foundation, Prague (currently 5)
3 Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Prague (currently 1)
1 INTAS, Brussels (currently 1)
3 International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (currently 1)
Synergistic activities
2000 – present Co-chairmen, Genetics Improvement Working Group, PROMUSA, Global Programme for Banana and Plantain Improvement (Montpellier, France)
2000 – present Member of the Scientific Council of the Crop Plant Research Institute, (Prague, Czech Republic)
2001 – present Member of the Management Committee of the Global Consortium for Musa Genomics (Montpellier, France)
2003 – present Member of Advisory Board of the Centre of Excellence in Plant Agrobiology and Molecular Genetics, PAGEN (Poznan, Poland)
2003 – present Member of Scientific Council, School of Natural Sciences, Palacký University (Olomouc, Czech Republic)
2005 – present Member of Evaluation Panel of the Czech Science Foundation (Prague, Czech Republic)
Teaching and mentoring
1992 – present Lecturer (General Cytogenetics and Cytotaxonomy), Palacky University, Faculty of Science, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Olomouc, http://www.upol.cz
1993 – 2005 9 international training courses
1996 – present 10 Ph.D. students (currently 3)
1998 – present 8 M.Sc. students (currently 2)
Membership in editorial boards of international journals
1995 – present Chromosome Research, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
1998 – present Biologia Plantarum, Institute of Experimental Botany, Prague
2002 – present Journal of Applied Genetics, Institute of Plant Genetics, Poznan
2006 - present International Journal of plant Genomics, New York
Scientific societies
1990 – present Czech Society for Histochemistry and Cytochemistry (Prague, Czech Republic), member
1997 – present International Society for Analytical Cytology (Northbrook, USA), member
1999 – present European Cytogeneticists Association, (Clermont-Ferrand, France), member
2002 – present Czech Society for Analytical Cytology (Brno, Czech Republic), vice chairman
2005 – present Genetics Society of America (Bethesda, USA), member

Honours and awards

  • 41 invited lectures abroad (symposia and universities)
  • Annual award of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic (1999)
  • Bronze medal “Pro merito”, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic (2004)
  • Elected member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic (2004)
  • Elected member of the General Assemblz of the Academy of Sciences of the Cyech Republic (2006)

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