Laboratory of Transcriptional Regulation

+ development, + evolution, + gene regulation, + transcription factors, + eye

Group leader

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

We have shown a critical role of Pax6 and Meis transcription factors in lens and retina development. [pubmed] [doi]

Our molecular analysis of the amphioxus frontal eye provided a fundamental insight into the origin of vertebrate eyes. [pubmed] [doi]

Our study revealed high evolutionary conservation of dorsal organizer formation in the chordate lineage. [pubmed] [doi]

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