Ing. Michaela Nohejlová Zemková, Ph.D.

Michaela Nohejlová Zemková has a master in applied ecology from the Faculty of Environmental Sciences of the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague. She has a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague where she studied evolutionary biology and focused on parallels between linguistics and genomics.

In her dissertation she analysed peptidomes of parasitic and non-parasitic organisms using the concept of parallels between linguistics and genomics. She worked to develop linguistic parallels in cooperation with the team of Professor E. N. Trifonov from the Genome Diversity Centre – University of Haifa (Israel) and also in the project "Innovation of the General Linguistics and Theory of Communication in Cooperation with the Natural Sciences": a cooperation with the Palacký University in Olomouc.

Since 2018, Michaela has focused mainly on the history of natural sciences in the former Czech territory (NAKI Project: Living Map – topography of the history of natural sciences in the Czech lands, 2018-2023, www.historyofscience.cz) and her other focus has been on practising environmental pedagogy (e.g. the pedagogical legacy of Eduard Štorch on Libeňský Island in Prague). The outcomes and results of her work can be found in collective publications and the moving educational exposition called Paths of Czech Science (2022-present).

Her interest now lies in comparing the history of geology with today’s concept of the Anthropocene.

Edited Monographs:

Kosta P., Zemková M. Benešová M. (Eds.) 2015. Czech and Slovak Linguistic Review 1/2014. Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci.

Nohejlová Zemková M., Pauknerová K. (Eds.) 2022. Cesty české vědy. Katalog výstavy. Pavel Mervart. ISBN: 978-80-7465-517-3

Hermann, T., Nohejlová Zemková M. (Eds.) 2023. Stezky přírodovědného poznání - Atlas exkurzí do dějin přírodních věd v českých zemích. Pavel Mervart. In Press.

Chapters in Monographs:

Zemková M. 2008. „Nová divočina“ v Praze – její biodiverzita a estetika. In K. Stibral, B. Binka a O. Dadejík (Eds.), Krása, krajina, příroda II. Brno: Muni Press.

Zemková M. 2011. New wilderness. In Petr Gibas, Karolína Pauknerová and Marco Stella et al. Non-humans in Social Science: Animals, Spaces, Things. Cerveny Kostelec: Pavel Mervart. ISBN 978-80-7465-010-9.

Zemková M. 2014. Paralely mezi lingvistikou a biologií. In Markoš et Al.:Biosémiotika II. UP v Olomouci. ISBN 978-80-244-4357-7.

Nohejlová Zemková M. 2021. Rohanský a Libeňský ostrov jako edukativní prostor. In Radoslava Schmelzová (ed.), Rohanský ostrov. Historicko- přírodovědná rešerše. Institut plánování a rozvoje hl. m. Prahy (IPR)

Articles:

Zemkova M, Trifonov EN, Zahradnik D. 2014. One common structural feature of "words" in protein sequences and human texts. J Biomol Struct Dyn;32(7):1085-91.

Trifonov EN, Zemková M. 2015. Genome and language – two scripts of heredity (Ontogenetic theory of language origin). Czech and Slovak linguistic review.

Zahradník D, Trifonov EN, Zemková M. 2015. Evolutionary landscape of human genome vocabulary. Czech and Slovak linguistic review.

Zemková M, Zahradník D, Mokrejš M, Flegr J. 2017. Parasitism as the main factor shaping peptide vocabularies in current organisms. Parasitology, 144(7): 975-983. DOI: 10.1017/S0031182017000191

Zemková M. 2018. Emergence of living language. Ontogeny-phylogeny Framework and other parallels of linguistics and biology. Linguistic frontiers 9(1): 1-6. DOI:10.2478/lf-2018-0002

Flegr, J., Zahradník D., Zemková M. 2022. Thus spoke peptides: SARS-CoV-2 spike gene evolved in humans and then shortly in rats while the rest of its genome in horseshoe bats and then in treeshrews. Communicative & Integrative Biology, 15:1, 96-104, DOI: 10.1080/19420889.2022.2057010