Markéta Kaucká: On the origins of facial shapes across humans and animals: insights from single-cell omics, lineage tracing, and high-resolution imaging

Markéta Kaucká is a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, located in Plön. She received her PhD from the Institute of Experimental Biology at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. She then undertook postdoctoral research in the laboratories of Prof. Igor Adameyko at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and the Medical University of Vienna.

Her work focuses on the developmental and genetic aspects of face formation. In particular, her research concentrates on the link between the development of the nervous system and chondrocranium in various species and aiming to create a spatiotemporal map of signals and their sources that instruct the formation of the complexly shaped skull.

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