Eva Zažímalová (born 18 February 1955) is a

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biochemist and since March 2017 the president of the

Czech Academy of Sciences The Czech Academy of Sciences (abbr. CAS, cs, Akademie věd České republiky, abbr. AV ČR) was established in 1992 by the Czech National Council as the Czech successor of the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and its tradition goes back ...

. Since 2021, she has also been one of the

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's Chief Scientific Advisors. She studied

biochemistry Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and biology, biochemistry may be divided into three fields: structural biology, enzymology and ...

at the Faculty of Science of

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in Prague in 1974–1979. Since 1983, she has worked in the Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Between 2003 and 2007, she was the deputy director of this institute, from 2007 to 2012 she led the institute as its director. At Charles University, Eva Zažímalová was habilitated in 2004 and in 2013 she was appointed professor of plant anatomy and physiology. She was elected to the

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. She has devoted herself to the molecular mechanisms of the effect of

plant hormone Plant hormone (or phytohormones) are signal molecules, produced within plants, that occur in extremely low concentrations. Plant hormones control all aspects of plant growth and development, from embryogenesis, the regulation of organ size, pa ...

s. Her research work is focused predominantly on the phytohormone

auxin Auxins (plural of auxin ) are a class of plant hormones (or plant-growth regulators) with some morphogen-like characteristics. Auxins play a cardinal role in coordination of many growth and behavioral processes in plant life cycles and are essenti ...

, its metabolism and the molecular mechanisms of its activity and transport in plant cells. The results of her research have found applications for instance in agriculture.

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