Vladimir Benes PhD

Dr. Vladimir Benes, Ph.D., Head of EMBL GeneCore, was born & studied in Prague, the Czech Republic. He has been at EMBL since 1994 when he came as a postdoc to the Ansorge group in the Biochemical Instrumentation Unit. Vladimir worked on the development of methodology supporting genome-wide high-throughput sequencing, mainly in the sample processing part. In 2001 he was appointed to build EMBL Genomics Core Facility, a technology-orientated service laboratory founded to assist researchers with functional genomics projects. This facility is currently utilizing mainly massively parallel sequencing and supporting technologies, such as qPCR, for example. Most recently, Vladimír’s expertise has enlarged by adding single-cell genomic approaches. Among Vladimír’s tasks belong also to the assessment of new technologies and their applications in functional genomics, in particular their suitability for implementation in the environment of core facilities. He is also strongly involved in the teaching methods applied in this field.