Lucie Chuchalova, CZE
Ph.D. student @


Stanislava Gunisova, SVK
post-doctoral fellow @


Anna Herrmannova, CZE
Ph.D. student @


Vladislava Vlcova, CZE
Diploma student @


Lucie Peclinovska, CZE
Bachelor student @


Olga Krydova, CZE
lab assistant @

Profesional
Leos is head of the Laboratory of Regulation of Gene Expression (LRGE) at the Institute of Microbiology AS CR in Prague, where he also serves as the vice chairman of the Executive Board. His laboratory, established in June 2006, investigates a basic concept of translation and various aspects of its control. The studies combine the use of budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and mammalian cells lines, and employ tools of molecular and structural biology, biochemistry and genetics. Leos received his Master degree in Genetics and Molecular Biology in 1994 from the Charles University in Prague and subsequently his Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1999 from the University of Vienna. He went on to do postdoctoral work in the Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, under supervision of Dr. Alan Hinnebusch. In June 2004, Leos received the “welcome-back-home” Fellowship of J. E. Purkyne from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR), and returned to the Czech Republic to be appointed as Independent Investigator at the Institute of Microbiology ASCR in Prague. In 2005 he was awarded a Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellowship, became the Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholar, and received an NIH FIC Global Health Research Initiative Program Award. In June 2010, Leos became the first Czech-based researcher ever to renew the Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellowship. In November 2011, his group together with 6 other young groups in the Czech Republic received a highly prestigious Centre of Excellence Grant from the Czech Grant Agency. Leos’s young group currently consists of one post-doctoral fellow, 5 Ph.D., 2 Diploma and 1 Bachelor students and a lab technician. He and his lab have published over 30 publications in top-notch peer-reviewed journals and won the best original research publication carried out at the Institute of Microbiology ASCR award in years 2008 and 2011.