Projects

Running projects

Grant agency of the Czech Republic

Role of bacteriophages in the shaping of primate gut microbiome (2024–2026)
Co-investigator: Klára Petrželková
Tick-borne microsporidiosis: ticks as a neglected source of human microsporidian infection? (2024–2026)
Investigator: Ivo Rudolf
Genetic networks in the Congolian forests: Unexplored biodiversity archive, herpetological aspect (2023–2025)
Investigator: Václav Gvoždík
Impact of non-native species on parasite diversity in aquatic ecosystems (2023–2025)
Investigator: Markéta Ondračková
Interplay between genetics, ecology and symbionts in two adaptive radiations of New Guinean rodents (2023–2025)
Co-investigator: Dagmar Čížková
Phyloregions of sub-Saharan Africa: Small mammals as a suitable model group for unbiased quantification of evolutionary diversity and uniqueness (2023–2025)
Investigator: Josef Bryja
The causes and evolutionary consequences of programmed DNA elimination in songbirds (2023–2025)
Co-investigator: Tomáš Albrecht
The role of coevolution ecological speciation (2021–2025)
Investigator: Martin Reichard
Coevolutionary struggle between a highly virulent brood parasite and its major host (2022–2024)
Investigator: Marcel Honza
Gastrointestinal symbiont communities of great apes: bioindicators for tropical ecosystem health (2022–2024)
Investigator: Klára Petrželková
Ongoing global invasion of zoonotic parasitic nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis: an assessment of risks of its emergence in Europe (2022–2024)
Co-investigator: Barbora Červená
Parental senescence effects and their mechanisms in a short-lived vertebrate (2022–2024)
Investigator: Milan Vrtílek
Viromics of the European house mouse hybrid zone: a model to understand how viruses cross host species barriers (2022–2024)
Investigator: Joëlle Goüy de Bellocq
Strategies of freshwater organisms for a warming world: from individual to community perspective (2021–2024)
Investigator: Lumír Gvoždík

International projects

HABITRACK: Habitat tracking for the conservation of huntable bird species | Horizon Europe (2024–2027)
Co-investigator: Petr Procházka
Urban bats - protected species in our buldings Visegrad fund (2023–2024)
Investigator: Jan Zukal

Ministry of Agriculture

Evaluation of hydrological status in trout rivers of Czech rep. and status of salmonid populations (2023–2025)
Co-investigator: Pavel Jurajda
Globalization, modern technologies and climate change provide both new opportunities and hazards for salmonid breeding management (2021–2025)
Investigator: Jan Mendel

Ministry of Health

Hidden zoonoses - uncovering new pathogenic agents from wildlife (2021–2024)
Investigator: Ivo Rudolf

Finished projects