Head of the Vertebrate zoology
Head of the Vertebrate zoology Research group at the Zoology department.
Constitution of the Lab
Laboratory for the study of craniofacial evolution & development
Founding of Euro Evo Devo
and organisation of first meeting in Prague together with Ivan Horáček and Frietson Galis
Assistant professor at the Vertebrate Zoology
Assistant professor at the Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Zoology, Charles University in Prague.
Ph.D. study of Zoology of Vertebrates
Evolutionary and developmental origin of anterior-most head structures
Msc study
Systematic Biology and Ecology studies at Palacký University, Olomouc
MSc. theses “Feeding Ecology of two anuran species, P. fuscus and B. viridis on a sand locality in Bzenec-Přívoz”.
Birth
in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia
Foreign Stays & Courses:
2009
OIST Winter Course Evolution of Complex Systems, Okinawa, Japan
2009
Summer School on Evolutionary Developmental Biology: Conceptual and theoretical aspects of evolutionary developmental biology, Venezia, Italy
2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, LA, USA; Prof. Marianne Bronner-Fraser
2005
Institute für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena, Německo; Prof. Lennart Olsson
2000-2004
natomical Institute, TU Dresden, Německo; Prof. Hans-Henning Epperlein
Invited lectures
2022
Fondation Treilles meeting The Neural Crest Perspective on Craniofacial Development (Les Treilles, Tourtour, France)
2022
8th Euro Evo Devo meeting (Napoli, Italy) – Keynote and opening lecture.
2018
Gordon Research Conference on Craniofacial Morphogenesis and Tissue Regeneration, (Il Cioco, Italy)
2016, 2017
Riken (Kobe, Japan).
2016
11th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM) (Washington DC, USA)
2015
Plasticity in embryonic origin and developmental formation of vertebrate head: a tribute to Mexican axolotls and Tropical gars (Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico)
2013
Shaping a shape: developmental formation of vertebrate craniofacial structures. IST Austria Young Scientist Symposium: Understanding Shape in silico and in vivo (Vienna, Austria)
2011
Gordon Research Conference on Bones & Teeth (Les Diablerets, Switzerland)
2005
Benelux Congress of Zoology (Wageningen, Netherlands)
Awards
2022
Biannual Medale for “Significant contribution to Evo-Devo” from the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Naples, Italy)
2019
The Award of the Chairman of the Czech Grant Agency
2017
The Award of the Rector of the Charles University in Prague (Bedrich Hrozný Prize for Creative Initiative)
2017
Bedřich Hrozný award for publication in Nature: Pre-oral gut contributes to facial structures in non-teleost fishes
2009
The Award of the Rector of the Charles University in Prague for creative activities
2008
The Prize of The Dean of The Faculty of Science to a Young Scientist for an outstanding scientific and pedagogic contribution to the faculty development
2008
The Prize for the Best Poster in the Postdoctoral Series in the Gordon Conference on “Craniofacial Morphogenesis & Tissue Regeneration”
2005
The Josef Hlavka’s Award for an outstanding Ph.D. Thesis as The Candidate of the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague
2005
Acknowledgements of the Dean of the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, for an exemplary representation
2004
The Prize of the Czech Anatomical Society and the Olympus company for the best scientific paper of a young scientist, a member of the society
2003
The First Award for the Best Student Oral Presentation at the meeting of the Czech Zoological Society
2002
The Second Award for the Best Student Oral Presentation at the meeting of the Czech Zoological Society
Euro Evo devo
Together with Ivan Horáček and Frietson Galis organized the First and Founding meeting of The European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Prague, 2006).
Last updated 04.03.2024