Mgr. Jan Mendel Ph.D.
Position full-time researcher
Direction molecular biology and genetics
Workplace Research facility Brno
+420 543 422 528

Research interests
- molecular markers in taxonomy and systematics,
- conservation genetics of fish, population variability and phylogenetics,
- genetics and breeding,
- molecular biological detection of zoonotic pathogens, statistical evaluation of genetic data,
- TTO manager,
- DNA service.
Running Projects
Finished projects
Education
- 1996-2001: undergraduate study – Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Science, specialization biology and genetics. Thesis: Genotoxicity Tests of Natural Extracts of Blue-Green Algae and Halogenated Aliphatic Hydrocarbons with Drosophila melanogaster.
- 2001-2007: Ph.D. study – Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Science, Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science and Institute of Vertebrate Biology AS CR, Brno. Ph.D. thesis: The using of mtDNA for characteristics of population structures of species from the genera Gobio and Romanogobio.
Employment
- 2001-present: Institute of Vertebrate Biology AS CR – research scientist.
Former Ph.D. students
- Soňa Stierandová: Molecular biodiversity inventory of selected fish species from families Cyprinidae and Umbridae.
- Eva Marešová: Genetic diversity of the Alpine bullhead (Cottus poecilopus, Heckel, 1837) in the Carpathian arc (Baltic and Black Sea basins contact zone).
Publications and Applied outputs
2025
2024
2023
Šindelka R, Mendel J (2023).
Diagnostic set RT-qPCR ICHTident for detection and quantification of Ichthyopthirius multifiliis in water, tissue and skin samples. Functional Sample.
2022
2021
2020
2019
Mendel J (2019).
Function sample - STR Multiplex OMident12 Kit for the determination of population parameters in commercial stocks of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Functional Sample.
Mendel J (2019).
Function sample - STR Multiplex SALVident11 Kit for the determination of population parameters in commercial stocks of charrs (genus Salvelinus). Functional Sample.
2018
Rudolf I, Blažejová H, Šebesta O, Mendel J, Peško J, Betášová L, Straková P, Šikutová S, Hubálek Z (2018).
West Nile virus (lineage 2) in mosquitoes in southern Moravia – awaiting the first autochthonous human cases. Epidemiologie, Mikrobiologie, Imunologie, 67: 44-46.
Mareš J, Poštulková E, Palíková M, Mendel J (2018).
Breeding results of salmonid fish of various genetic origin. Verified Technology.
2017
Lusk S, Koščo J, Lusková V, Halačka K, Mendel J, Košúth P (2017).
The nonindigenous fish Perccottus glenii in the Tisza River drainage, Eastern Slovakia – I. part: history of invasion, habitat associations and genetic characteristics (results up to the year 2006). Lampetra. Bulletin pro výzkum a ochranu biodiverzity vodních toků, 8: 127-143.
Lusk S, Halačka K, Májsky J, Vetešník L, Mendel J (2017).
Balcan golden loach (Sabanejewia balcanica) in the Czech Republic - past, present and future. Lampetra. Bulletin pro výzkum a ochranu biodiverzity vodních toků, 8: 90-102.
Halačka K, Muška M, Mendel J, Vetešník L (2017).
A newly discovered population of the Balkan spiny loach Sabanejewia balcanica (Karaman, 1922) in the River Jihlava, Czech Republic. Folia zoologica.
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
Marešová E, Delić A, Kostov V, Marić S, Mendel J, Šanda R (2011).
Genetic diversity of Sabanejewia balcanica (Actinopterygii: Cobitidae) in the western Balkans and comparison with other regions. Folia zoologica.
2010
Halačka K, Vetešník L, Mendel J, Papoušek I (2010).
Can spawning marks on females of the spined loach (Cobitis sp., Teleostei) be caused by scratches from males during mating?. Folia zoologica.
2009
2008
2007
Halačka K, Vetešník L, Lusk S, Mendel J, Papoušek I (2007).
X1X1X2X2/X1X2Y pohlavní chromozomový systém u drska většího Zingel zingel (Pisces: Perciformes) z řeky Moravy (Česká republika). Caryologia.
2005
Mendel J, Lusková V, Halačka K, Lusk S, Vetešník L (2005).
Využití RAPD markerů k charakterizaci populací druhu Gobio gobio v České a Slovenské republice. Folia zoologica.