Kejnovský Eduard

Doc., RNDr., CSc.
September 1, 1966 in Znojmo

Genomics
Member of Learned Society since 2019

Educational and professional preparation

1985: secondary school, Znojmo
1985-1990: master study, biology - genetics, Faculty of Sciences, Masaryk University, Brno
1990-1995: PhD study, biophysics, Institute of Biophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno
2009: habilitation in molecular biology and genetics, Faculty of Sciences, Masaryk University, Brno

Employment and academic positions

1990-1995: PhD student, Department of conformation properties of nucleic acids, Institute of Biophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno
1995-present: scientist, senior scientist, group leader, Department of Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno
2000: visiting scientist at Department of Biology, North Carolina University at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
2011-2014: group leader, Genome Dynamics Group, CEITEC, Brno

Membership in selected domestic scientific bodies

2016-present: member of Scientific council, Institute of Biophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno
2010-2014: member of Scientific council, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno
2017-present: panel member of Czech Science Foundation

Membership and positions in selected international organizations and societies

Czechoslovak biological society

Selected publications

Guiblet W, Cremona M, Cechova M, Harris R, Kejnovska I, Kejnovsky E, Eckert KA, Chiaromonte F, Makova KD (2018) Long-read sequencing technology indicates genome-wide effects of non-B DNA on polymerization speed and error rate. Genome Research 28, 1767-1778.
Trifonov EN and Kejnovsky E (2015) Acytota – associated kingdom of neglected life. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 34, 1641-1648.
Lexa M, Kejnovsky E, Steflova P, Konvalinova H, Vorlickova M, Vyskot B (2014) Quadruplex-forming sequences occupy discrete regions inside plant LTR retrotransposons. Nucleic Acids Research 42, 968-978.
Michalovova M, Vyskot B, Kejnovsky E (2013) Analysis of plastid and mitochondrial DNA insertions in the nucleus (NUPTs and NUMTs) of six plant species: size, relative age and chromosomal localization. Heredity 111, 314-320.
Kejnovský E., Leitch I, Leitch A (2009). Contrasting evolutionary dynamics between angiosperm and mammalian genomes. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24, 572-582.
Marais GAB, Nicolas M, Bergero R, Chambrier P, Kejnovsky E, Moneger F, Hobza R, Widmer A, Charlesworth D (2008) Evidence for degeneration of the Y chromosome in the dioecious plant Silene latifolia. Current Biology 18, 1-5.
Matsunaga S, Isono E, Kejnovský E, Vyskot B, Doležel J, Kawano S and Charlesworth D (2003) Duplicative transfer of a MADS box gene to a plant Y chromosome. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20, 1062-1069.
Kejnovský E and Kypr J (1997) DNA extraction by zinc. Nucleic Acids Research 25, 1870-1871.

BOOK:
Kejnovsky E, Hawkins JS, Feschotte C (2012) Plant transposable elements: biology and evolution. Diversity of genomes in plants. Ed. by J.F. Wendel, I. Leitch, J. Dolezel, Greilhuber (Springer)

POPULARIZATION:
Kejnovský E: Tajemství genů – od vzniku života po genom člověka (Story of genes – from the origin of life to the human genome) (Academia 2015) (popularization book in Czech)

27 articles in Vesmír (Czech popularization magazine) – years 2000-2019