PETRA BULANKOVA
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0368-5995 | 46 Rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris, France |E: petra.bulankova@bio.ens.psl.eu
EDUCATION
2011 Dr. rer. nat. (equivalent to PhD) in Molecular Biology, very good (1)
Vienna Biocenter PhD program, University of Vienna, Austria
PhD thesis: Regulation of meiotic progression in Arabidopsis
2006 Master’s degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics, passed with honours
Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Science, Czech Republic
Thesis: Genomic instabilities induced by telomerase dysfunction in Arabidopsis
WORK EXPERIENCE
From 01/10/2023 CNRS Research scientist in the Phytogenomics team,
Institute de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
2022 - 2023 Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Simone Köhler
Department of Cell Biology and Biophysics, EMBL, Heidelberg
Project: Detection of homologous chromosomes in Phaeodactylum tricornutum
2020 - 2022 Unemployed, voluntary work in the laboratory of Dr. Lieven De Veylder
Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
2015 - 2020 Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Lieven De Veylder
Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Project: Mitotic recombination in diatoms
2014 Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid
Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna, Austria
Project: Epigenetic regulation of heterocarpy/heterospermy in Aethionema
2014 Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Karel Riha, part-time
Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna, Austria
Project: The role of STN1 gene in genome-wide endoreplication
2010 - 2012 Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Karel Riha,
Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna, Austria
Project: Identification of meiotic cyclins in Arabidopsis
2006 - 2010 PhD student in the laboratory of Dr. Karel Riha,
Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna, Austria
FELLOWSHIPS AND FUNDING
2025 Christian Boulin fellowship, visiting scientist, EMBL
2024 ANR JCJC grant REMIX, PI
2023 Transnational Access to PLANAQUA grant, team member, AQUACOSM, France
2022 Planetary Biology program internal grant, postdoc, EMBL
2021 GACR Standard grant, PI, The Czech Science Foundation, declined
2014 Schrödinger Fellowship, Postdoctoral position, Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
AWARDS
2011 Vienna Biocenter PhD Award for outstanding PhD thesis, Vienna, Austria
2006 Dean's Award for excellence in studies and success in creative research work, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic
CAREER BREAKS
2020 50% parental leave; 8 months including 5 months of corona parental leave, Ghent, Belgium
2017 Maternity and parental leave, 4.5 months, Ghent, Belgium
2013 Maternity and parental leave, 12 months, Vienna, Austria
SELECTED ORAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS OR INVITED SEMINARS
2025 Invited talk: Molecular Life of Diatoms 8. Ghent, Belgium, 22-26 June 2025
The unexpected features of mitotic division in diatoms
2025 Invited talk: GMI 25th Anniversary, Vienna, Austria, May 23rd 2025
Unusual aspects of mitotic division in diatoms
2024 Invited talk: Tree of Sex meeting, Prague, July 1-5th 2024, online participation:
Recombining chromosomes without sex and other unexpected features of diatoms
2023 Selected from abstracts: Conférence Jacques-Monod: Sex unfolded: sex, asex, sexes, Roscoff, France
Recombining chromosomes without sex: How can homologous chromosomes find each other in a diatom nucleus?
2022 Invited talk: Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, France
Recombining chromosomes without sex: Evidence for recombination of homologous chromosomes in diatom vegetative cells.
2021 Selected from abstracts: EMBO Workshop: Plant genome stability and change,
Evidence for recombination of homologous chromosomes in diatom vegetative cells
2021 Invited talk: Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, Bergen, Norway
Mitotic interhomolog recombination contributes to the genomic diversity in diatoms.