2000-2003:
Research Fellow, National Eye Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
2000:
Visiting Fellow, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
since 1996:
Research Group Leader, IMG, Prague
1991-1996:
Postdoctoral & Research Fellow, Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
1990:
PhD, IMG, Prague
2002:
Otto Wichterle Award
Control of eye development in the mouse by Pax6 and Meis genes
We have shown a critical role of Pax6 and Meis transcription factors in lens and retina development. [pubmed] [doi]
Evolutionary origin of the vertebrate head: an insight from amphioxus
Through cell type characterization, we identified the presence of prechordal plate-like and neural crest-like cell populations in the developing embryo of invertebrate amphioxus. [pubmed] [doi]
Evolution of vertebrate body plan
Our study revealed high evolutionary conservation of dorsal organizer formation in the chordate lineage. [pubmed] [doi]