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Joanna Majka Ph.D.

Position
postdoc
Phone
+ 420 585 238 720
E-mail
majkaj@ueb.cas.cz
Address
Šlechtitelů 31, 779 00 Olomouc
Room number
303
Research group
Wide Hybridization Group

Curriculum Vitae

Education and Academic Degrees

  • 2011: BSc.; Dept. of Plant Anatomy and Cytology, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
  • 2013: MSc.; Dept. of Plant Anatomy and Cytology, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
  • 2019: Ph.D.; Dept. of Environmental Stress Biology, Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland

Position and Employment

2020 - present - Post-doc, Centre of Plant Structural and Functional Genomics, Institute of Experimental Botany of the czech Academy of Sciences, v. v. i. (IEB), Olomouc, Czech republic
2019 - 2020 - Assistant, Institute of Plant Genetics, Dept. of Environmental Stress Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland

Research Focus

  • Cytogenetics
  • Plant genome structure
  • Interspecific hybridization
  • Grasses

Awards

2019 - Poznan City Award for Young Researcher, Poznan, Poland
2018 - The Barbacki Award - National Award in Plant Genetics Field, Poznan, Poland

Publication Activity

Journal publications: 11
Lifetime citations (Scopus): 62 (without self-citations: 51)
H-index: 5

Five Selected Publications

  • Majka J, Bzdega K, Janiak A, Cwiek-Kupczynska H, Krajewski P, Ksiazczyk T, Zwierzykowski Z (2019) Cytogenetic and molecular genotyping in the allotetraploid Festuca pratensis x Lolium perenne hybrids. BMC Genomics 20:367
  • Lusinska J, Majka J, Betekhtin A, Susek K, Wolny W, Hasterok R (2018) Chromosome identification and reconstruction of evolutionary rearrangements in Brachypodium distachyon, B. stacei and B. hybridum. Annals of Botany 122:445-459
  • Plazek A, Pociecha E, Augustyniak A, Masajada K, Dziurka M, Majka J, Perlikowski D, Pawlowicz I, Kosmala A (2018) Dissection of resistance to Microdochium nivale in Lolium multiflorum/Festuca arundinacea introgression forms. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 123: 43-53
  • Majka J, Zwierzykowski Z, Majka M, Kosmala A (2018) Karyotype reshufflings of Festuca pratensis x Lolium perenne hybrids. Protoplasma 255:451-458.
  • Kwiatek M, Majka J, Majka M, Belter J, Wisniewska H (2017) Adaptation of the pivotal-differential genome pattern for the induction of intergenomic chromosome recombination in hybrids of synthetic amphidiploids within Triticeae tribe. Frontiers in Plant Science 8:1300