Computational biologist working on RNA discovery, homology detection, and comparative genomics
I study how functional RNAs and other conserved sequence elements can be discovered from genomic data using computational approaches. My work combines comparative genomics, homology search, evolutionary models, covariance-based analyses, and large-scale bioinformatics pipelines to identify biological signals that are difficult to detect from sequence similarity alone.
Academic path:
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Postdoctoral Associate, TBI Vienna — with Ivo Hofacker
Working on computational methods for identifying conserved functional elements in biological sequences. -
Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard University — with Elena Rivas
Focused on homology detection and the development of eHMMER, a method for improving remote homology searches using evolutionary models. -
Ph.D., Masaryk University, Brno — with Jiří Fajkus
Worked on the discovery and characterization of telomerase RNA across diverse plant lineages.
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