Mgr. Barbora Gajdárová (roz. Turbaková)

Position PhD student
Direction conservation and population genetics

Research interests

  • conservation genetics,
  • population genetics,
  • ecology of large carnivores.

Education

  • 2010-2013: bachelor’s thesis – Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Science, Department of Botany and Zoology, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Methods for monitoring large carnivores (supervisor M. Barančeková).
  • 2013-2015: master’s thesis – Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Science, Department of Botany and Zoology, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Genetics of the Eurasian lynx of the Western Carpathians (supervisor J.Bryja).
  • 2015 – present: PhD thesis – Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Science, Department of Botany and Zoology, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Conservation genetics of the Eurasian lynx in the Central Europe (supervisor J.Bryja, consultant J.Krojerová-Prokešová).

International experience

  • 2013: internship in molecular genetics laboratory, Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (6 months).

Publications

2019

Krojerová-Prokešová J, Turbaková B, Jelenčič M, Bojda M, Kutal M, Skrbinšek T, Koubek P, Bryja J (2019). Genetic constraints of population expansion of the Carpathian lynx at the western edge of its native distribution range in Central Europe. Heredity, 122, 785-799.