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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. |
Doctoral study | Biomedical Technologies and Bioinformatics, Ph.D. |
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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 |
USA, UNL | Helikar Lab, Biochemistry Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
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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 |
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. |
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 |
Computational biology | Bioinformatics, Systems biology |
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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 |
Native language | Czech |
Other languages | English (C1) |
German (A2) |
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 |
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 |