portrait Jana Musilova Hi there! I´m Jana Musilova, a young researcher driven by a passion for exploring the complexities of biological world through computational approaches. My work focuses on bioinformatics and systems biology, with expertise in processing and analyzing large-scale sequencing data, annotating genomes, modeling biological systems, inferring and analyzing biological networks, and developing scientific software and pipelines.

Personal Information

Education

Doctoral study Biomedical Technologies and Bioinformatics, Ph.D.
2019-2024 Brno University of Technology, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Theme: Advanced methods for genome annotation and functional description of non-model organisms in biotechnology research
Advisor: doc. Mgr. Ing. Karel Sedlar, Ph.D.
Graduate study Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics, M.Sc. / Ing. (graduated with honors)
2017-2019 Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication
Thesis: Signaling Pathway for Butanol Production in Solventogenic Clostridium Bacteria
Undergraduate study Biomedical Technology and Bioinformatics, Bc.
2014-2017 Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication
Thesis: Interactions of drugs used to treat schizophrenia and their accompanying symptoms

International Research Stays

USA, UNL Helikar Lab, Biochemistry Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
09/2024-11/2024 In-person visit with ongoing remote collaboration.
Germany, LMU Zimmer Lab, Department of Bioinformatics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
05/2023-06/2023 Visiting Scholar. Project: GRN and BN inference for non-model, bioindustry usable bacteria
USA, UNL Helikar Lab, Biochemistry Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
09/2021-08/2022 Visiting Scholar. Project: Augusta - Python package for inferring Boolean Network through the Gene Regulatory Network from RNA-Seq data

Work experience

2024-Present Postdoctoral researcher, HelikarLab, UNL-Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
01/2025-Present Research Associate, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Lab, BUT
2019-2024 Research Assistant, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Lab, BUT
2019 Internship in data mining, Oncomed manufacturing a.s.
2018 Internship in databases research, Medin a.s.
01/2018 Internship in device testing, PSI, a.s.

Research Projects & Scholarships

2022-Present Team member of the inter-university research grant project GACR 22-10845S
2019-2022 Brno Ph.D. Talent 2019; JCMM stipend; 300,000 CZK
2021-Present Team member of the inter-university international research grant project 21-15958L
2021 Principal investigator of the inter-faculty BUT research junior project FCH/FEKT-J-21-7331
2020 Co-investigator of the inter-faculty BUT research junior project FCH/FEKT-J-20-6399
2018-2020 Team member of the inter-university research grant project GACR 17-00551S

Skills

Computational biology Bioinformatics, Systems biology
Dynamic modeling
Biological networks (Gene regulatory networks, Protein interaction networks, Boolean networks)
NGS data processing
Bacterial assembly and annotation
IT
Advanced Windows OS, MacOS, Linux OS, Python, R, Matlab
Intermediate GitHub, HTML, CSS, PHP, databases

Languages

Native language Czech
Other languages English (C1)
German (A2)

Courses

2024 Assessing and improving Research Software support action, FAIR-IMPACT
12/2023 Tools for Systems biology modeling and data exchange, de.NBI
2020-2021 Advanced English Communication, Masaryk University
2021 Learn Python!, PyLadies
11/2019 Online course "Introducion to HTML a CSS", CzechITas
09/2019 Summer school in Mathematical Biology BiMat 2019, Masaryk University
05/2018 Course Systems Dynamics of Biological Networks through Computational Modeling, Masaryk University & Helikar Lab
12/2017 Course Effective presentation of the work and study results, Academy of Sciences CR
2017 Online course "Learn Python", CODECADEMY

Scientific awards

2021 Student Competition EEICT 2021: 1st place
2019 Student Competition ZlaTra 2019: 2nd place
2019 Dean‘s Award for the best Master‘s thesis
2019 Student Competition EEICT 2019: 2nd place
2019 7th International Conference on Chemical Technology ICCT 2019: 1st place
2018 Student Competition EEICT 2018: 3rd place
2017 Competition for the best Bachelor’s thesis at BUT 8zVUT: 2nd place
2017 Student Competition EEICT 2017: 3rd place

Publications

Selected journal papers

Selected conference papers

Thesis