Scientific Director
Experimental Botany
Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research
Czech Republic
Jaroslav Doležel is the Scientific Director of the Centre and the head of the research program Novel Materials and Methods for Plant Breeding. Since 1983 he has been working for the Institute of Experimental Botany, Academy of Sciences CR (IEB AS CR). His scientific specialization is plant gene structure and evolution, flow cytometry application to nucleus genome analysis, genome mapping and sequencing of economically important crops
plant genome structure and evolution, application of flow cytometry to analyze nuclear genome, analysis of long-range molecular organization of plant chromosomes, development of chromosome genomics to support mapping and sequencing complex genomes of agricultural crops interaction and evolution of parental genomes in hybrid and polyploid plants