Jan Janouškovec

ORCID: 0000-0001-6547-749X

Research Interests

I am passionate about protist diversity, ecology and evolution. My early career research focused on evolutionary genomics to study the origins of parasitism, plastids and mitochondria, primarily in apicomplexans and dinoflagellates. Our current research has expanded to other protist groups and explores the cellular and molecular basis of their metabolism and behaviour.

Curriculum vitae

• 2021 – Present, Group leader at Centre Algatech, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
• 2021 – Present, Lecturer at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton
• 2019 – 2020, Researcher at the University of Oslo
• 2016 – 2019, Excellence Research Fellow at University College London    
• 2014 – 2015, CIFAR Global Scholar Fellow at San Diego State University                        
• 2008 – 2013, PhD studies at the University of British Columbia
• 2005 – 2008, MSc studies at the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice

Top 5 publications

1. Janouškovec, J., Paskerova, G. G., Miroliubova, T. S., Mikhailov, K. V., Birley, T., Aleoshin, V. V., & Simdyanov, T. G. (2019). Apicomplexan-like parasites are polyphyletic and widely but selectively dependent on cryptic plastid organelles. eLife 8, e49662. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.49662
2. Janouškovec, J., Gavelis, G. S., Burki, F., Dinh, D., Bachvaroff, T. R., Gornik, S. G., … Saldarriaga, J. F. (2017). Major transitions in dinoflagellate evolution unveiled by phylotranscriptomics. PNAS 114(2), E171–E180. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614842114
3. Janouškovec, J., Tikhonenkov, D. V., Burki, F., Howe, A. T., Rohwer, F. L., Mylnikov, A. P., & Keeling, P. J. (2017). A new lineage of eukaryotes illuminates early mitochondrial genome reduction. Curr Biol 27(23), 3717-3724.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.10.051
4. Janouškovec, J., Tikhonenkov, D. V., Burki, F., Howe, A. T., Kolísko, M., Mylnikov, A. P., & Keeling, P. J. (2015). Factors mediating plastid dependency and the origins of parasitism in apicomplexans and their close relatives. PNAS 112(33), 10200–10207. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1423790112
5. Janouškovec, J., Horák, A., Oborník, M., Lukeš, J., & Keeling, P. J. (2010). A common red algal origin of the apicomplexan, dinoflagellate, and heterokont plastids. PNAS, 107(24), 10949–10954. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1003335107