PhD student

Juliana C. Jardim Barbosa is a Brazilian botanist and is persuing PhD from Department of Botany, Charles University, Prague. She works on understanding how genome size and polyploidy shapes trait evolution and diversification in Rosids. 

Juliana holds a Master’s degree in Plant Biodiversity and Environment from the Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais (São Paulo, Brazil), where she studied species boundaries and ecological variation in Brazilian Magnolia species using fieldwork and herbarium studies in Brazil and abroad. Her background is in plant systematics and biodiversity research, with experience in taxonomic data curation, geometric morphometric and species distribution analyses.

Research technician

Dr. Michaela Martinčová has a background in plant physiology, anatomy and molecular biology. 

She got her Master’s degree from Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, followed by a PhD in Experimental Plant Biology from Charles University in Prague, Czechia. Her PhD revealed the role of AHL transcription factors during root system development of Arabidopsis thaliana, and their interactions. She prepared Arabidopsis mutant lines with modulated AHL expression to study phenotypic changes in Arabidopsis due to AHL genees.