Monika Cechova
Personal Information
Born: Unknown
Country of Birth: Czech Republic
Nationality: Czeck
Ethnicity: White
Education
Masaryk University in Brno BS Applied Informatics 2011 & MS Bioinformatics 2013; Penn State University PhD Biology 2020
""We now have a recipe on how to assemble the y-chromosome fully, which, while expensive at the moment, can translate into personalized genomics in the future." (gulf news)"
— Monika Cechova
Professional Life
Field of Study: Biomolecular Engineering
Institution/Corporation: UC Santa Cruz; Penn State University
Degrees & Memberships: Member: Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution
Awards & Achievements
Awards: 2020 The Program of support for Promising Postdoctural Students, Czech Academy of Sciences; 2018 Hill-Hill Memorial Fund Fellowship, associated with Penn State; 2018 Mohnhern Scholarship, associated with Penn State; 2016 Dr. John Randall Shuman Troxell Memorial Scholarship in Biology, associated with Penn State; 2014 CBIOS, Penn State; 2013 Braddock Scholarship, associated with Penn State
Achievements: interested in sex chromosomes, satellite biology, non-B DNA, and reproductive biology, as well as advances in the world of long reads and assembly; has a background in computer science; studied the Y chromosome evolution in great apes, as well as applied long reads to explore heterochromatin in great apes; is a member of the 100 scientists of the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T)Consortium who decoded the y chromosome sequencing in 2023
has been working on Postdoctural research at UC Santa Cruz since 2022
Speaks Czech, English, German & Slovak