Instructors
The instructors on our courses are people working with qPCR on a daily basis at TATAA Biocenter or connected organizations, always trying to have the latest knowledge in the field. Different instructors may be involved in different course occasions and instructors from Sweden are occasionally involved in courses in Prague.
Please feel free to contact us for requests and more information about TATAA Courses.
TATAA Biocenter Sweden
Mikael Kubista
Professor Mikael Kubista was among the pioneers who developed real-time PCR. Starting in 1991 his laboratory developed dyes and probes for qPCR and founded LightUp Technologies as the first company focusing on qPCR based human infectious disease diagnostics. His team developed methods and approaches to analyze qPCR data and founded MultiD Analyses which develops state of the art GenEx software for qPCR experimental planning and data analysis. In 2001 he founded TATAA Biocenter and his team also pioneered single cell expression profiling, multidimensional expression profiling and intracellular expression profiling by qPCR. Working as advisor for Unesco Kubista introduced qPCR in Africa and in the Middle East. Kubista has set up the first high throughput qPCR expression profiling center in Europe (www.ibt.cas.cz) and and has also co-authored the MIQE guidelines on the publication of qPCR data. At TATAA Biocenter Sweden he is responsible for the Experimental design and statistical data analysis courses.
Robert Sjöback
Robert Sjöback has a PhD degree in Physical Chemistry from Chalmers University of Technology where he studied the fluorescent properties of DNA binding dyes and contributed to the development of the LightUp probes, one of the probe technologies used in real-time PCR today. Sjöback worked several years with research and product development of both real-time PCR and ELISA based assays for food diagnostics. Since January 2005 Sjöback has been employed at TATAA Biocenter where he is now Manager of R/D and product development. He is a lead instructor in the Hands-on qPCR module, HRM, Multiplex PCR and Sample preparation and quality control courses.
Kristina Lind
Kristina Lind received her PhD in Molecular Biotechnology from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, in 2007. Her PhD project included development of the protein quantification technique immuno-qPCR. She has held courses in TATAAs regime since 2001 and is now responsible for the course program and core facility at TATAA Biocenter. She is lead instructor in the Hands-on qPCR module, Multiplex PCR, and immuno-qPCR courses.
Jennifer Pettersson
Jennifer has an MSc in Molecular Biology from University of Gothenburg. She has previously been working at the section Clinical genetics, Sahlgrenska hospital, with tumor suppressor genes in signaling pathways in the human body. She has also been working at Skövde University as a university teacher. At TATAA Biocenter she is involved in the practical parts of the Hands-on qPCR course and the core facility.
Jens Björkman
Jens Björkman has an MSc in Molecular Biotechnology from Lund Institute of Technology and a BSc in Chemical engineering from University of Borås. He has previously been responsible for the Molecular Diagnostics section at Laboratory Medicine and Infection Control, Södra Älvsborg Hospital, involving clinical diagnostics and research projects of bacteria and viruses by real-time PCR. At TATAA Biocenter he has for several years worked with EU funded R/D projects and product development. Presently he is group leader and Manager for the Commission Service Organization (CSO) responsible for all contract research projects. He is responsible and lead instructor for the Sample preparation and quality control course and the microRNA course, but also involved in some of the lectures in the Hands-on qPCR module and HRM course.
David Švec
David Švec has an MSc in Pharmacy from Charles University, Prague and is now finishing his PhD in the Institute of Biotechnology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. After finishing his diploma thesis in Paris, Inserm – working on developing a tool to monitor progress of acute myeloid leucemia in mice using blood, he stayed focused on gene expression analysis of “small scale” samples. He has worked on making gene-expression maps made using qPCR tomography and laser-microdissection, single-cell analysis and high-throughput qPCR. He is a tutor in the Hands-on qPCR module and Sample preparation and quality control courses.
TATAA Biocenter Czech Republic
Mikael Kubista
Professor Mikael Kubista was among the pioneers who developed real-time PCR. Starting in 1991 his laboratory developed dyes and probes for qPCR and founded LightUp Technologies as the first company focusing on qPCR based human infectious disease diagnostics. His team developed methods and approaches to analyze qPCR data and founded MultiD Analyses which develops state of the art GenEx software for qPCR experimental planning and data analysis. In 2001 he founded TATAA Biocenter and his team also pioneered single cell expression profiling, multidimensional expression profiling and intracellular expression profiling by qPCR. Working as advisor for Unesco Kubista introduced qPCR in Africa and in the Middle East. Kubista has set up the first high throughput qPCR expression profiling center in Europe (www.ibt.cas.cz) and and has also co-authored the MIQE guidelines on the publication of qPCR data. At TATAA Biocenter Sweden he is responsible for the Experimental design and statistical data analysis courses.
Aleš Tichopád
Ales Tichopad is a biostatistician and biotech and pharma expert providing his expertise in developing mathematical models, analysis of experimental research data, clinical research data, biotech and pharma market research, health economics and outcomes research. As an expert in the late stage of drug research and development he helps companies to introduce their innovations onto market. His expertise was evidenced by more than 1000 citations of his scientific papers and patents. Ales Tichopad holds PhD from the Technical University Munich since 2004 with focus on development of algorithms in analysis of gene expression data.
David Švec
David Švec has an MSc in Pharmacy from Charles University, Prague and is now finishing his PhD in the Institute of Biotechnology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. After finishing his diploma thesis in Paris, Inserm – working on developing a tool to monitor progress of acute myeloid leucemia in mice using blood, he stayed focused on gene expression analysis of “small scale” samples. He has worked on making gene-expression maps made using qPCR tomography and laser-microdissection, single-cell analysis and high-throughput qPCR. He is a tutor in the Hands-on qPCR module and Sample preparation and quality control courses.
Vendula Rusňáková
Vendula Rusňáková has an MSc in Biochemistry from Institute of Chemical Technology and is now conducting PhD studies in the Institute of Biotechnology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Her diploma thesis was focused on transporting particles in cells. Now she works on single cell gene expression profiling of astrocytes. She is a tutor in the Hands-on qPCR module, Sample preparation and quality control and Expression profiling courses.
Vlasta Korenková
Vlasta Korenkova studied biology at the Charles Univesity in Prague in the Czech Republic. After receiving her master degree, she was working as a research assistent at Albany Medical College, USA focusing on fatty acid transport in yeasts mainly using confocal microscopy. In 2008 she received her PhD. at the Parasitology Department, at the Charles University in Prague for her work on parasite Cryptosporidium parvum. During her PhD. studies she participated in Fogarty International Program sponsored by National Institutes of Health, USA and in frame of this program she worked at the Department of Parasitology, Wadsworth Center, USA and Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, USA where she helped to introduce a quantitative real time PCR for measuring efficacies of different inhibitors during growth of intracellular parasites in vitro. Currently, she is a qPCR core facility manager in the Institute of Biotechnology, AS CR in Prague. She is a tutor in the Hands-on qPCR module.
