Homepage of Brona Brejova
Assistant Professor (vedecký pracovník VKS IIa)
Department of Computer Science,
Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and
Informatics, Comenius University in
Bratislava, Slovakia
Member of computational biology research group
My name with diacritics: Broňa Brejová (Bro\v{n}a Brejov\'{a} in TeX)
Current teaching (Summer 2010)
2-INF-147 Vyhľadávanie v texte (String matching algorithms)2-AIN-502 Základy programovania pre študentov biológie (Programming for biologists)
Previous term (Fall 2009):
2-AIN-501 Metódy v bioinformatike (Methods in bioinformatics) with Tomas Vinar
2-AIN-503 Seminár z bioinformatiky (Bioinformatics seminar)
Research
Research interests: gene finding, bioinformatics, algorithms
Publications: see the list
Bioinformatics software:
- ExonHunter - software for gene finding by combination of multiple sources of evidence. [download]
- Mikroskop - software for displaying biological sequence annotation in gtf format. [download]
- TreeArrange - software for reordering and displaying expression array data. [download]
Funding: FP7 International Reintegration Grant
Student supervision
Current: Martina Višňovská (doctoral), Marcel Kucharík, Juraj Mešťánek, Michal Nánási (master), Peter Herman, Peter Kováč (bachelor)
Graduated: Rastislav Šrámek (2007, master, co-supervision with Tomáš Vinař), Jakub Kováč (2009 master)
See also the list of people in the computational biology research group.
Other acticities
Local activities at our department/faculty (in Slovak):Academic experience
Postdoc, Adam Siepel's group at Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA (August 2006 - December 2008).
Research Assistant Professor, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (Bioinformatics research group) (September 2005 - July 2006)
Ph.D. in Computer Science, November 2005
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (Bioinformatics research group)
Thesis: Evidence Combination in Hidden Markov Models for Gene Prediction [details]
Advisors: Ming Li, Daniel G. Brown
Diploma degree (Magister) in Computer Science, 1999
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia,
Thesis: Two Open Problems in Communication Complexity [details]
Advisor: doc. RNDr. Pavol Duris, CSc.
Teaching experience
Courses taught at Comenius University: 2-AIN-501 Metódy v bioinformatike (Methods in bioinformatics) with T. Vinar F09, 2-AIN-503 Seminár z bioinformatiky (Bioinformatics seminar) F09, 2-INF-147 Vyhľadávanie v texte (String matching algorithms) S09
Course taught at the University of Waterloo: Instructor of CS 134 (Principles of Computer Science) F05
Teaching assistant at University of Waterloo: CS212: F99; CS341 (Algorithms): W00, S00, S01, W02, F02, W03, F03; CS466/666 (Algorithm Design and Analysis): F00, F01; CS360 (Introduction to the Theory of Computing): W01, S02, S03
Teaching assistant at Comenius University: Design of Efficient of Algorithms: F98, Introduction to Distributed Algorithms: F98, Introduction to the Theory of Programming: S99
