Laboratory of Regulatory RNA

Mgr. Jarmila Hnilicová, PhD.

jarmila.hnilicova@natur.cuni.cz

Jarmila completed her PhD in alternative splicing, but then shifted to studying bacterial protein-RNA complexes and began her postdoc in Libor Krásný’s lab. For a couple of years, she has had independent funding and projects, and as a result, she decided to establish her own group at the Faculty of Science.

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Mgr. Jitka Jirát Matějčková, PhD.

jitka.matejckova@natur.cuni.cz

Jitka is a postdoc, but also a very talented lab manager without whom the lab would never have been running. Thanks to Jitka’s organizational skills, we were able to start work immediately after we moved. Whatever practical problems in the lab you have, she will solve them. She is experienced in both in vivo and in vitro methods and often helps students with their experiments.

Mgr. Viola Vaňková Hausnerová, PhD.

viola.hausnerova@natur.cuni.cz

Violka, our postdoc, is practically the experiment whisperer. She’s the only one we know who can make every experiment work on the first try. RIP-seq? ChIP-seq? No problem. And now she’s back from her maternity leave, ready to conquer even more mind-blowing methods and projects.

Ing. Silvia Neva

nevas@natur.cuni.cz

Silvie began her PhD in our lab in 2023. She is from Italy but completed her master’s degree at the University of Chemical Technology in Prague. Silvia’s project focuses on transcription regulation in various actinobacteria, including Corynebacterium glutamicum. Silvie is totally into actinobacteria and she’s a master at cultivating all sorts of funky strains.

MTech. Jeevitha Chithra Madhesh

chithraj@natur.cuni.cz

Jeevitha started her PhD in November 2024. Jeevitha is extremely motivated and brave because she was able to survive one week at Vltava student dormitory, and she did not escape!

Eliška Mikesková

Eliška is our undergraduate student, who really helped us with experiments involving CoRP RNA and is a co-author of our latest paper.

Lucie Zahradníčková

Lucka is our Bachelor student working on plasmids in wild type mycobacteria species.

Adam Hoško

Adam’s Bachelor’s thesis is focused on mycobacterial heat shock proteins and their regulation.

Matilde Botelho

Matilde is an Erasmus student from the Azorean Islands who helps us a lot with a project describing the regulation of mycobacterial RNA polymerase promoters.

Former members of the lab

Mahmoud Shoman did his PhD in 2020-2024. He discovered a new bacterial transcription factor and came up with a name for it – CrsL. In addition to being a highly enthusiastic and outstanding PhD student, he has mad skills in design too. He’s the mastermind behind all those beautiful schemes, snazzy graphics in our papers, and even advertisements for new PhD student positions!

Alice Armellini was Erasmus student from the University of Parma who worked on her Master’s thesis from February 2024 to August 2024 in our lab. Alice performed many experiments and identified several proteins that regulate mycobacterial RNA polymerase expression.