Jan Šafář

Name and surname: Jan Šafář Affiliation: Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Olomouc, Czech Republic Citizenship: Czech Republic ORCID: 0000-0003-0197-1979 Education and academic degrees 1999 MSc., Masaryk University, Faculty of Sciences, Brno, General biology, 2004 Ph.D., Botany; Faculty of Sciences, Palacký University, Olomouc; Ph.D. thesis: „ BAC Library Construction in Plants” Appointments 2003 – 2004 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Arizona, Plant Sciences, Tucson, USA 2004 – 2010 Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics and Cytometry, Institute of Experimental Botany, Olomouc, Czech Republic 2010 – 2017 Senior Researcher, Centre of Structural and Functional Genomics, Institute of Experimental Botany, Olomouc, Czech Republic 2017 – present Group leader, Centre of Structural and Functional Genomics, Institute of Experimental Botany, Olomouc, Czech Republic 2017 – present Head of Application Laboratory for Agricultural Research, Centre of Structural and Functional Genomics, Institute of Experimental Botany, Olomouc, Czech Republic Management Experience 2017 – present Group leader, Centre of Structural and Functional Genomics, Institute of Experimental Botany, Olomouc, Czech Republic 2017 – present Head of Application Laboratory for Agricultural Research, Centre of Structural and Functional Genomics, Institute of Experimental Botany, Olomouc, Czech Republic International Experience 2002 CIRAD, Montpellier, France. Construction and characterization Musa balbisiana BAC library (4 month) 2002 Unité de Recherches en Génomique Végétale (URGV-INRA), Paris-Evry, France Construction and characterization 3B chromosome-specific BAC library for Triticum aestivum (2month) 2003 Unité de Recherches en Génomique Végétale (URGV-INRA), Paris-Evry, France. Construction and characterization 1BS arm-specific BAC library for Triticum aestivum (1month) 2003 - 2004 Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. Physical mapping of barley genome using microarray technology (6 month) Teaching and mentoring 2008-2012 Palacký University, Pedagogic faculty, Basic Genetics 2014- 2020 Palacký University, Faculty of Sciences, Practise in Genomics 2017- present Palacký University, Faculty of Sciences, semestral course “Transcriptomics and Gene anotation " Thesis supervision: Bc. and MSc. - 8 (8 defended); Ph.D. - 3 (1 defended, 2 in progress). Main research interests Flowering time gene analysis in cereals; NGT, Foreign rDNA in barley species, Construction of large-insert DNA libraries in plants; Physical genome mapping; Research grant awards Principal investigator of four projects (Czech Science Foundation), total award 22.5 mil. CZK (equal to 0.9 mil. €) Co-investigator of six projects (Czech Science Foundation), total award for IEB 19.4 mil CZK (equal to 800 thousand €) Publication activity 55 original papers and reviews, 2 book chapters; WOS 63 entries; h-index 24, 2,720 citations (11.11.2022); https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/G-1038-2014 Profiling records (since 2016) Five selected publications: 1. International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) (2018): Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome. Science 361(6403):eaar7191. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aar7191 2. Mahelka, V., Krak, K., Kopecký, D., Fehrer, J., Šafář, J., Bartoš, J., Hobza, R., Blavet, N., Blattner, F.R (2017).: Multiple horizontal transfers of nuclear ribosomal genes between phylogenetically distinct grass lineages. – PNAS 114: 1726-1731, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.15167 3. Mahelka, V., Krak, K., Fehrer, J., Caklová, P., Nagy Nejedlá, M., Čegan, R., Kopecký, D. and Šafář, J. (2021), A Panicum-derived chromosomal segment captured by Hordeum a few million years ago preserves a set of stress-related genes. Plant J, 105: 1141-1164. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.15167 4. Šafář J., Šimková H. and Doležel J. (2016).: Construction of BAC Libraries from Flow-Sorted Chromosomes, book chapter in Plant cytogenetics: Methods and Protocols, vol.:1429, 135-149, Ed(s): Kianian, SF and Kianian, PMA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3622-9_11 5. Strejčková B, Milec Z, Holušová K, Cápal P, Vojtková T, Čegan R, Šafář J.: In-Depth Sequence Analysis of Bread Wheat VRN1 Genes. Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Nov 13;22(22):12284. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms222212284. International Projects: 1. 101094738: Promoting a Plant Genetic Resource Community for Europe (01/2023 – 06/2025); Horizon Europe (HORIZON-INFRA-2022-DEV-01) funding amount for IEB 80,750 €; co-investigator; Invited lectures The applicant has recently opportunity to be speaker at following conferences and symposia: - PlantGen 2019, Novosibirsk, Russia, 2019: What we know about vernalization proces in wheat -70. conference:Tagung der Vereinigung der Pflanzenzüchter und Saatgutkauf