Head
Marek JINDRA, Ph.D.
ORCID: 0000-0002-2196-9924; Scopus Author ID: 6701390314; ResearcherID: H-2082-2014
jindra@entu.cas.cz
Berlin triathlon

Lab, Ceske Budejovice

Darwin Island, Galapagos

Marek was born in Prague where he graduated from the Charles University. After postdoctoral studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, and at the National Institute of Genetics in Japan, he assumed a group leader position at the Biology Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences and received professorship at the University of South Bohemia. More recently Marek worked with CSIRO in Australia and presently he serves as editor of Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Marek's research interests include hormonal regulation of insect development, particularly metamorphosis, and the role of intracellular receptors and other transcriptional effectors in morphogenesis and homeostasis. To address these issues, he complements Drosophila genetics with work on non-model insects such as the red flour beetle Tribolium, the commercial silkworm, the linden bug. His main contribution is the genetic and molecular definition of the long-sought receptor for juvenile hormone (JH). He currently pursues mechanisms of the JH receptor activation and function during development.
Team

Research scientist
Lenka BITTOVÁ, Ph.D.
PROJECTS:
- Post-translational regulation JH receptor
- Novel JHR agonists and antagonists

Ph.D. student
Tereza DOLEJŠKOVÁ, MSc.
PROJECT:
- Role of JH signaling in Drosophila cellular immunity

Research scientist
Šárka TŮMOVÁ, Ph.D.
PROJECTS:
- Peptidic agonists of JH receptor
- Novel JHR agonists and antagonists

Ph.D. student
Mykola YATSENKO, MSc.
PROJECT:
- Genetic programming of Drosophila development by juvenile hormone

Ph. D. student
Matěj MILÁČEK, MSc.
PROJECTS:
- Target genes of JHR
- Novel JHR agonists and antagonists

Postdoctoral fellow
Raveendra Babu MOKHAMATAM, Ph.D.
PROJECT:
- Genetic components of JH signaling
Technician: Aida Švestková
Alumni Ph.D. students
- Mirka Uhlirova, postdoc at the University of Rochester Medical Center, NY (USA), currently tenured professor at the Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne (Germany)
- Ivana Gaziova, researcher at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX (USA)
- Marie Silhankova (now Macurkova), postdoc at the Hubrecht Institute (Utrecht), currently group leader at the Charles University in Prague
- Barbora Konopova, HFSP fellow at the University of Cambridge (UK), later researcher at Goettingen (Germany)
- Petra Sekyrova, (now Szeszula) postdoc at the Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), now CEO, BrainZell
- Jan Rynes, researcher at the CEITEC,
Masaryk University in Brno
- Vlastimil Smykal, postdoc at the UC Riverside, CA (USA), currently researcher at the Biology Center CAS in Ceske Budejovice