Contact information:
Doc. Mgr. Robert Černý, Ph.D.
Phone: +420 22 195 1850
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.
Proposed Bachelor and Master student projects to be found here.
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.
PhD students:
Agáta Horáčková: Developmental and evolutionary role of branchiomerism in the rostral vertebrate head
Tomáš Suchánek: Comparative evolutionary-developmental analyses of scales in fishes
Lectures:
- Animal biology (MB170P85)
- Morphology of animals (MB170P46)
- General and comparative odontology (MB170P81)
- Advances in developmental biology (MB151P117E)
- Organism: order and dis-order (MS720P053)
- Vertebrate zoology (MB170P13A)
Recent publications:
2024
Huysseune A, Cerny R, Witten E (2024) The conquest of the oropharynx by odontogenic epithalia. In: Odontodes: The Developmental and Evolutionary Biuilding Blocks of Dentitions (ed. Chen D). CRC Press. Pp.
2023
Horackova A, Pospisilova A, Stundl J, Minarik M, Jandzik D & Cerny R (2023) Pre-mandibular pharyngeal pouches in early non-teleost fish embryos. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290, 20231158.
Stundl J, Martik ML, Chen D, Raya DA, Franěk F, Pospisilova A, Pšenička M, Metscher BD, Braasch I, Haitina T, Cerny R, Ahlberg PE, Bronner ME (2023) Ancient vertebrate dermal armor evolved from trunk neural crest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 120, e2221120120.
2022
Stundl J, Soukup V, Franek R, Pospisilova A, Psutkova V, Pšenička M, Cerny R, Bronner M, Meulemans Medeiros D & Jandzik D (2022) Efficient CRISPR mutagenesis in sturgeon demonstrates its utility in large, slow-maturing vertebrates. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 10, 750833.
Huysseune A, Cerny R & Witten PE (2022) The conundrum of pharyngeal teeth origin: the role of germ layers, pouches, and gill slits. Biological Reviews 97, 414-447.
Pospisilova A, Stundl J, Brejcha J, Metcher BD, Psenicka M, Cerny R & Soukup V* (2022) The remarkable dynamics in the establishment, rearrangement, and loss of dentition during the ontogeny of the sterlet sturgeon. Developmental Dynamics 251, 826-845.
2021
Soukup V, Tazaki A, Yamazaki Y, Pospisilova A, Epperlein HH, Tanaka EM & Cerny R (2021) Oral and palatal dentition of axolotl arises from a common tooth-competent zone along the ecto-endodermal boundary. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 8, 622308.
2020
Stundl J, Pospisilova A, Matějková T, Psenicka M, Bronner ME & Cerny R (2020) Migratory patterns and evolutionary plasticity of cranial neural crest cells in ray-finned fishes. Developmental Biology 467, 14-29.
Fabian P, Tseng KC, Smeeton J, Lancman JJ, Dong PDS, Cerny R & Crump G (2020) Lineage analysis reveals an endodermal contribution to the vertebrate pituitary. Science 370, 463-467.
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.
