Contact information:
Mgr. Robert Černý, Ph.D.
Phone: +420221951850
E-mail: robert.cerny@natur.cuni.cz
Room: 222
Personal webpage:
Laboratory for the study of craniofacial evolution & development
Research interests:
Developmental morphology; comparative embryology; evolutionary-developmental biology.
Current projects:
Developmental morphogenesis of head and pharyngeal structures in axolotl, bichir and lamprey; jaw development and evolution; germ-layer origin of oral & pharyngeal teeth.
Lectures:
- Animal biology (MB170P85)
- Morphology of animals (MB170P46)
- General and comparative odontology (MB170P81)
- Advances in developmental biology (MB151P117E)
- Organism: order and dis-order (MS720P053)
Recent publications:
2019
Stundl J, Pospisilova A, Jandzik D, Fabian P, Dobiasova B, Minarik M, Metscher BD, Soukup V* & Cerny R* (2019) Bichir external gills arise via heterochronic shift that accelerates hyoid arch development. eLife 8: e43531.
2017
Minarik M, Stundl J, Fabian P, Jandzik D, Metscher BD, Psenicka M, Gela D, Osorio-Perez A, Arias-Rodriguez L, Horacek I & Cerny R (2017) Pre-oral gut contributes to facial structures in non-teleost fishes. Nature 547 (7662): 202-212
Square T, Jandzik D, Romášek M, Cerny R, & Medeiros DM (2017) The origin and diversification of the developmental mechanisms that pattern the vertebrate head skeleton. Developmental Biology 477: 219-229
2014
Jandzik D, Hawkins MB, Cattell MV, Cerny R, Square T & Medeiros DM (2014) Roles for FGF in lamprey pharyngeal pouch formation and skeletogenesis highlight the developmental changes underlying jaw evolution. Development 141 (2): 629-638
