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Marek JINDRA, Ph.D.

ORCID: 0000-0002-2196-9924; Scopus Author ID: 6701390314; ResearcherID: H-2082-2014

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.

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