RNDr. Jan Mareš, Ph.D.
Job Position: Research Scientist - Department of Aquatic Microbial Ecology (AME)
Phone:
387775886
E-mail:
jan.mares@centrum.cz
Room:
032
My long-term research interest lies in ecology and molecular biology of cyanobacteria. Above all I specialize in elucidating the molecular phylogeny and evolution of cyanobacteria, bioinformatic analysis of their (meta)genomes and genetic potential for biosynthesis of toxins and other biologically active compounds. Besides basic research I am also involved in research with potential for practical use in hydrobiological monitoring (identification of cyanobacterial species, ecotoxicology), and further in characterizing novel natural products isolated from cyanobacteria utilizable e.g. in pharmaceutical or agricultural research.
ResearcherID: B-2395-2009; IF publications: 70; citations: 2481 (without self-cites: 2321), H-index: 25
BORN: January 27, 1984, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
EDUCATION:
• 2009–2015: Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia
Ph.D. programme Botany, specialization in Phycology
PhD. Thesis: Polyphasic approach to the taxonomy of selected cyanobacteria.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Evolution, taxonomy and distribution of cyanobacteria (algae), molecular phylogenetics, genomics and bioinformatics, bioactive natural products.
SCIENTIFIC EMPLOYERS
• Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Hydrobiology (since 2014)
• Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences (since 2013)
• Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences (2011-2017)
• University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science (2012-2023)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYERS
• Komunitní základní škola Starhill, z.s. (elementary school) – teacher (since 2024)
• Povodí Vltavy, s.p. (water management of the Vltava River Basin, state enterprise) – phycologist / hydrobiologist (2008 – 2012)
GRANT PROJECTS
• 2022-2024 GA ČR 22-05478S: „Iron monopolization versus community service: the two faces of cyanobacterial beta-hydroxy aspartate lipopeptides“, co-PI
• 2022-2024 GA ČR 22-06374S: „Consolidating cyanobacterial systematics through harmonization of polyphasic and genomic taxonomy“, PI
• 2019-2021 GA ČR 19-21649J: „Hunting down the Eagle Killer – Investigations into the cyanotoxin causing avian vacuolar myelinopathy“, PI
• 2014-2016 GA ČR 16-09381S: „Bioactive cyanobacterial lipopeptides: genome mining, detection, and structure-activity relationships“, co-PI
• 2014-2016 GA ČR 14-18067S „Toxic potential, evolution of toxin synthesis, and factors driving anatoxin-a production in benthic and soil nostocacean cyanobacteria“, research team member
• 2012-2014 MŠMT AMVIS/KONTAKT II LH12100 „ Diversity of cyanobacteria from tropical and subtropical biomas“, research team member
• 2012- 2014 GA ČR P506/12/1818 „Phylogenetic and phenotypic evaluation of heterocytous cyanobacteria from the family Scytonemataceae”, research team member
• 2011 doctoral grant of the Institute of Physical Biology (Univ. South Bohemia) "Multilocus sequence analysis as a tool for robust phylogeny in heterocytous cyanobacteria", holder
• 2010 GA ČR 206/08/0318 „Phylogenetic relations, diversity and ecology of heterocytous cyanobacteria with polarised thalus”, team member
