Petra Hajkova

[1] She is also the Deputy Director of the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences, where her research group Reprogramming and Chromatin is also hosted.

[2] Petra Hajkova completed her Masters at the Charles University in Prague, and obtained her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin.

Since 2009, she leads her own research group at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences in London, working on epigenetics and reprogramming.

[6] She has been a member of several editorial boards of academic journals, including Stem Cells Reviews and Reports and PLOS Biology.

They have published seminal work on the molecular mechanisms that underlie the maintenance of epigenetic information using in vivo models.