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Martin Kovačik Ph.D.

Position
Post doc
Phone
+420 585 238 728
E-mail
kovacik@ueb.cas.cz
Address
Šlechtitelů 31, 779 00 Olomouc
Room number
307
Research group
Pečinka group

Curriculum Vitae

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Education and Academic Degrees

  • 2018–2024 – Ph.D. studies, Palacky University, Dept. of Biology, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
  • 2016–2018 – M.Sc., University of Ostrava, Dept. of Biology and Ecology, Ostrava, Czech Republic.
  • 2013–2016 – Bc., University of Ostrava, Dept. of Biology and Ecology, Ostrava, Czech Republic.

Position and Employment

  • 2024–present – Department of Botany, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • 2018–present – Centre of Plant Structural and Functional Genomics, Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i. (IEB), Olomouc, Czech Republic.
  • 2016–2018 – Life Science Research Centre, Ostrava, Czech Republic
  • 2014–2018 – Guide in Planetárium Ostrava and author of supplemental biological activities, Ostrava, Czech Republic

Research Focus

Hordeum vulgare, seed development, endosperm, transctiptome analysis, epigenetic regulation, imprinting

Awards

2024 - The Best Poster Award, International CEPLAS-IPK Summer School 2024, Drübeck, Germany
2024 - Absolute winner in the category Biology & Ecology, Scientific competition for the dean's prize, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
2024 - 1st place in doctoral section of the category Biology & Ecology, Scientific competition for the dean's prize, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
2021 - Funding for Short Term Scientific Mission, action Epigenetic mechanisms of Crop Adaptation to Climate Change, European Cooperation in Science & Technology

Publication Activity

Publication Activity
Journal publications: 8
Lifetime citations (WoS): 31
H-index: 4 (WoS)

Five Selected Publications

  • Kovacik, M., Nowicka, A., Zwyrtková, J., Strejčková, B., Vardanega, I., Esteban, E., Pasha, E., Kaduchová, K., Krautsova, M., Červenková, M., Šafář, J., Provart, N., J., Simon, R. & Pecinka, A. (2024). The transcriptome landscape of developing barley seeds. The Plant Cell, 2024, 1-19.
  • Vladejić, J., Kovacik, M., Zwyrtková, J., Szurman-Zubrzycka, M., Doležel, J. & Pecinka, A. (2024). Zeocin-induced DNA damage response in barley and its dependence on ATR. Scientific Reports, 14, 1-16.
  • Pavlu, S., Nikumbh, S., Kovacik, M., An, T., Lenhard, B., Simkova, H., & Navratilova, P. (2024). Core promoterome of barley embryo. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 23, 264- 277.
  • Nowicka, A., Kovacik, M., Tokarz, B., Vrána, J., Zhang, Y., Weigt, D., ... & Pecinka, A. (2021). Dynamics of endoreduplication in developing barley seeds. Journal of Experimental Botany, 72(2), 268-282.
  • Kovacik, M., Nowicka, A., & Pecinka, A. (2020). Isolation of high purity tissues from developing barley seeds. JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments), (164), e61681.

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