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Jitka Polechová - Curriculum Vitae
Education
2005 | Ph.D., Dep. of Zoology, Charles University, Prague: Competitive speciation: From clonal populations to genetic models |
2001 | MSc., Dep. of Ecology and Ethology, Charles University, Prague: Geometry of social relationships in the Wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus |
1999 | BSc., Biology, Charles University, Prague: Role of MHC in individual recognition |
Academic and Research Appointments
since 2015 | Postdoctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna |
2009 - 2014 | Postdoctoral research fellow at the IST Austria |
2007 - 2009 | Postdoctoral research fellow at Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland, Edinburgh |
2006 | Research fellow at the Center for Theoretical Study, Prague |
2005 - 2006 | Postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
Fundings and scholarships
2015 | Evolutionary ecology of species' ranges (FWF), Elise Richter Programme |
2004 | Mobility Fund of Charles University, Prague |
2001 | Erasmus |
Research Interests
I am interested in the evolution and maintenance of biodiversity. I have been using a
variety of mathematical methods to develop theory of speciation and of adaptation to
spatially and temporally variable environments, applied to dynamics of species’ ranges.
Most recently, I have pioneered theoretical work on limits to a species’ range driven by
random genetic drift.
Teaching Experience
2011
| Contemporary molecular-genetic approaches in zoology and conservation genetics, Brno
Evolutionary Genetics Summer School, IST Austria |
2007
| MSc. course in Population Genetics, University of Edinburgh |
2004 | HTML-CSS course for BSc. students of Environmental and Community Biology, University of Edinburgh |
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2009 - 2011
| Supervision of Pavel Payne's Master thesis: Role of genetic variance in speciation, Charles University, Prague |
Invited and contributed talks (selected)
8/2015 | Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Lausanne
(Switzerland): Coevolution of genetic variance and species’ range in a changing environment. |
7/2015 | Congress of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE), Vienna
(Austria): Limits to a species’ range in one- and two-dimensional habitats. |
8/2013 | Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Lisbon (Portugal):
When does genetic drift prevent expansion of a species’ range? |
11/2010 | Cambridge (UK), Newton Institute (invited):
Special workshop: Evolutionary dynamics of structured populations.
Adaptation in continuous populations with migration and genetic drift. |
8/2003 | Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Leeds (UK):
Speciation in asexual populations in sympatry and parapatry. |
Other Experience
2010 | Organizer of the Frontiers of speciation: Evolution of reproductive isolation: models and empirical evidence
meeting, Prague (together with Radka Storchova |
Referee for | Ecology Letters, American Naturalist, Evolution, Heredity, Journal of Evolutionary Biology
(reviewer board since 2011), Nature Communications, Journal of Theoretical Biology,
Molecular Ecology, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS ONE, European Physics Journal
B, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Theoretical Population Biology, Trends in Ecology
and Evolution; Grant reviewer for: NWO (Netherlands), Portuguese Foundation for
Science and Technology. |
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