Profile

RNDr. Roman Hobza, Ph.D.

Position: 
research project leader

Phone: 
+420 585 238 722
E-mail: 
hobzaatueb [dot] cas [dot] cz

Address: 
Šlechtitelů 31, 78371, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Room number: 
304

Education

  • Ph.D., Masaryk University, Brno (2004), Dept. of Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • M.Sc., Masaryk University, Brno (2000), Dept. of Molecular Biology and Genetics

Appointments

2011 – present      Senior scientist, Centre of Plant Structural and Functional Genomics, Institute of Experimental Botany, Olomouc, Czech Republic

2007 – present      Postdoctoral researcher - Laboratory of Plant Developmental Genetics headed by Prof. Boris Vyskot, Institute of Biophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences,
                             Brno, Czech Republic

2006                     One-year postdoctoral fellow at the lab of Prof. Alex Widmer, Institute of Integrative Biology, EHT Zurich, Switzerlan

2000 - 2005          Graduate research assistant at the Laboratory of Plant Developmental Genetics headed by Prof. Boris Vyskot, Institute of Biophysics, Czech Academy of
                             Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic

2001                     Graduate research assistant at the laboratory od Dr. Sarah Grant, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research interests

Sex chromosome evolution; evolution of plant response to abiotic stress; plant genome dynamics.

Academic honors and awards

2008                   The Otto Wichterle Award

2004                   Special award of the Institute of Biophysics for the best Ph.D. student

2004                   Among top 5 - The Czech Head Award for the best Ph.D. student in the Czech Republic

Invited lectures

2011                    Plant Genome Evolution, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2010                    Conference of Plant Experimental Biology, Prague, Czech Republic

2008                    Silene: from populations to genes, Ascona, Switzerland

2007                    Conference of Plant Experimental Biology, Olomouc, Czech Republic

2006                    Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2005                    Plant and Animal Genomes (PAG) XIII Conference, San Diego, USA

Teaching 

Genetic Engineering - semestral course, Mendel University in Brno

Evolutionary Genomics - semestral course, Masaryk University and University of South Bohemia

Structure and Evolution of Genomes - University of Vetirinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno

All User Publications:
Number of publications: 10

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