Mgr. Eliška Táborská, PhD.

Position:
Scientific Staff
Email:
eliska.taborska@biomed.cas.cz
Phone:
(+420) 296 442 569
Address:
Laboratory of Biotransformation
Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Vídeňská 1083
Praha 4 – Krč
142 00
Czech Republic

Education

  • Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Science – Developmental and Cell Biology – Ph.D. (2021)
  • Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Science – Cell and Developmental Biology – M.Sc. (2013)

PhD Thesis

Research Orientation

  • Post-PhD – Immuno-oncology
  • PhD – Mouse genetics, mammalian genetic models, RNA biology

Long-term Visits Abroad

  • Dr. Yehu Moran lab, Hebrew university of Jerusalem, February 2017 (3 weeks)
    • Rescue of Dicer 1 knock-down in Nematostellausing Mouse Dicer
    • Bilateral project CR-Izrael call
  • Donal O’Caroll, FRS, University of Edinburgh
    • Preparation of Tail-seq libraries from mouse oocytes and zygotes (2 weeks)

Awards & Courses

  • Best poster award, RNA society meeting, 2017
  • GAUK (student grant) 2014, 11422/2014, Oživení RNA interference v savcích
  • EMBO practical workshop – analysis of non-coding RNAs, 2016
  • EMBO Young Investigator PhD course, 2014

Industry work experience

  • Quriegen B.V., Nijmegen, Netherlands – 2025, Senior Biologist in an early start up company, single cell multiomics platform development
  • Bioxcel Therapeutics, Prague, CZ – 2022 – 2025 – Biologist in AI team, drug repurposing in Immuno-oncology and Psychiatric disorders
  • Sotio Biotech, Prague, CZ – 2020 – 2022 – Scientist, Industry research of immune tumor microenvironment of HPV-driven cancers

Publications

  • 11 research articles
  • 477 citations
  • Hirsch index: 8

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=1FX9PksAAAAJ

Selected publications 

  • Marcos Iuri Roos Kulmann, Eliska Taborska, Brigita Benköova, Martin Palus, Ales Drobek, Filip Horvat, Josef Pasulka, Radek Malik, Eva Salyova, Vaclav Hönig, Michaela Pellerova, Maria Borsanyiova, Lenka Nedvedova, Ondrej Stepanek, Shubhada Bopegamage, Daniel Ruzek, Petr Svoboda: Enhanced RNAi does not provide efficient innate antiviral immunity in mice. Nucleic acids research, 53, 1 (2025).
  • Valeria Buccheri, Josef Pasulka, Radek Malik, Zuzana Loubalova, Eliska Taborska, Filip Horvat, Marcos Iuri Roos Kulmann, Irena Jenickova, Jan Prochazka, Radislav Sedlacek, Petr Svoboda: Functional canonical RNAi in mice expressing a truncated Dicer isoform and long dsRNA. EMBO reports, 25, 7 (2024).
  • Lucie Pavelková, Eliška Táborská, Linn A Syding, Klára Plačková, Ekaterina Simonova, Kamila Hladíková, Michal Hensler, Jan Laco, Vladimír Koucký, Michal Zábrodský, Jan Bouček, Marek Grega, Kateřina Rozkošová, Hana Vošmiková, Michael J Halaška, Lukáš Rob, Ivan Práznovec, Miroslav Hodek, Milan Vošmik, Petr Čelakovský, Viktor Chrobok, Aleš Ryška, Lenka Palová-Jelínková, Radek Špíšek, Anna Fialová: Tissue contexture determines the pattern and density of tumor-infiltrating immune cells in HPV-associated squamous cell carcinomas of oropharynx and uterine cervix. Translational Oncology, 41, 3, (2024).
  • David Zapletal, Eliska Taborska, Josef Pasulka, Radek Malik, Karel Kubicek, Martina Zanova, Christian Much, Marek Sebesta, Valeria Buccheri, Filip Horvat, Irena Jenickova, Michaela Prochazkova, Jan Prochazka, Matyas Pinkas, Jiri Novacek, Diego F Joseph, Radislav Sedlacek, Carrie Bernecky, Dónal O’Carroll, Richard Stefl, Petr Svoboda: Structural and functional basis of mammalian microRNA biogenesis by Dicer. Molecular cell, 82, 21 (2022).
  • Vladimír Koucký, Kamila Hladíková, Eliška Táborská, Jan Bouček, Marek Grega, Radek Špíšek, Anna Fialová: The cytokine milieu compromises functional capacity of tumor-infiltrating plasmacytoid dendritic cells in HPV-negative but not in HPV-positive HNSCC. Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy, 70 (2021).
  • Eliska Taborska, Josef Pasulka, Radek Malik, Filip Horvat, Irena Jenickova, Zoe Jelić Matošević, Petr Svoboda: Restricted and non-essential redundancy of RNAi and piRNA pathways in mouse oocytes. PLoS genetics, December 20 (2019).
  • Vedran Franke, Sravya Ganesh, Rosa Karlic, Radek Malik, Josef Pasulka, Filip Horvat, Maja Kuzman, Helena Fulka, Marketa Cernohorska, Jana Urbanova, Eliska Svobodova, Jun Ma, Yutaka Suzuki, Fugaku Aoki, Richard M Schultz, Kristian Vlahovicek, Petr Svoboda: Long terminal repeats power evolution of genes and gene expression programs in mammalian oocytes and zygotes. Genome research, 27, 8 (2017).

Hobbies

  • Hiking, yoga, meditation, plants, science and tech

 

Last update: October 3, 2025