Curriculum Vitae
Professional experiences
Institute of Experimental Botany Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, since 2016
- Transcriptome and hormonome of male gametophyte in the evolutionary context
- Evolution of pollen specific genes
- Research areas: phylogeny, evolution and taxonomy of plants
- Evolution of the cytokinin coding genes
- Phylogeny and evolution of the Juncaceae
- Phylogeography of Saxifraga rosacea
- Supervision of student projects and theses
- Methods: phylogenetic analyses, molecular analyses, taxonomic expertise
Centre for Applied Genomics, Department of Genomics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (part time job), 2007 - 2011
Department of Taxonomy, Institute of Botany Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (student worker), 1997-1999
Teaching practical lessons from “Systematic and evolution of vascular plants” at Charles University Prague, 2001-2002
Teaching lesson “Molecular taxonomy of plants” during Biosystematics course at Charles University Prague, 2002
Education
2003 - PhD. in Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Charles University Prague and Institute of Botany AS CR (Research on phylogeny and evolution of the Juncaceae family)
1999 - MSc. in Systematic and Ecology of Vascular Plants, Faculty of Science, Charles University Prague (Thesis about population analysis of Saxifraga rosacea - thesis successfully defended for RNDr. degree in 2000
1997 - BSc. in Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Charles University Prague
Fellowships
2006 - SYNTHESYS: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 4 weeks
2006 - SYNTHESYS: The Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, 6 weeks
2004 - BMBG Berlin-Dahlem, IOPI Juncaceae Checklist remote editor training, 1 week
2001 - COBICE: Botanical institute University of Copenhagen, 3 months
2001 - SYS-RESOURCE: Natural History Museum and Royal Botanic Garden Kew, Jodrell Laboratory, 6 weeks
1999 - Hugo de Vries Laboratory, Amsterdam, training in methods of analysis of DNA, 1 week
Professional certified courses
2022 - Data visualization in R, Prague, 4 days
2019 - RNASeq data analysis workshop, Prague, 5 days
2016 - Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência – Oeiras, Portugal, NGS Data Analyses - RNASeq and ChiPSeq analyses, 1 week
2012 - Communication and popularization of Science
2011 - How to communicate Science, Technological and economical competence for European research area
2011 - Workshop on Comparative Genomics, University of Maryland, 2 weeks
2009 - Eukaryotic genome annotation and analysis course, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, 3 days
2009 - Recombinant proteins and proteomics, Merck, 1 day
2009 - Workshop on Molecular Evolution, University of Maryland, 3 weeks
2008 - Expression of recombinant proteins, Merck, 1 day
2002 - Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência – Oeiras, Portugal, Bioinformatics Course, 1 week
Editorial work
since 2018 - Nová Botanika, Founder and Editor-in-Chief
2013-2017 - Botanika, Founder and Editor-in-Chief
1999-2004 - IOPB Newsletter with J. Kirschner
Reviewer
Peer-review for international scientific journals (Annals of Botany, Biologia, BMC Plant Biology, FEBS Journal, FEMS Microbiology Letters, Folia Geobotanica, Nature Protocols, Plant Systematics and Evolution, Preslia, South African Journal of Botany, Systematic Botany, Taxon, etc.); Grant evaluation for Czech grant agencies – South Bohemian University; Czech Science Foundation, Grant Agency of South Bohemia University; Reviewer of Habilitation Theses.
Member of committees
2010-2015 - Willi Hennig Society, Committee for student presentations evaluation
2011-2015 - Marie Stopes Student Travel Award
2012-2015 - Kurt Milton Pickett Intercontinental Travel Awards
Symposia organized
2006 - International phylogenetic workshop: Phylogenetic Analysis: Theory and Practice Workshop of the Willi Hennig Society in Průhonice
Grants
Project leader of eight projects funded by Czech Science Foundation (4; 206/07/P147, P506/11/0774, 16–14649S, 19-02699S), European Union Framework Program (4; FP5 - SYS-RESOURCE, COBICE and FP 6 - SYNTHESYS) and Grant Agency of Charles University (1).
Travel grants for active presentation of results at international conference and field trips were founded by Czech Literal Foundation (5; 2006-2010) and Monocots III./Grasses IV. Scientific organizing committee (1; 2003).
Participation in seven projects founded by Czech Science Foundation (6) and Higher Education Development Fund (1) including taxonomic study of Taraxacum, Key to the flora of the Czech Republic and Flora of the Czech Republic.
Publications
Forty-four publications in peer-review journals (Web of Science: H-index 17, papers have been cited in 844x; Google Scholar: H-index 20, i10-index 32, papers have been cited in 1337x, 1. 1. 2024), eight in peer-review not in WoS, six book chapters. For details see http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lenka_Zaveska_Drabkova/.
Six invited lectures; eighteen papers and eighteen posters at international scientific conferences (evolution, phylogeny, systematics, molecular biology, physiology).