Institute of Parasitology, CAS

The Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences performs basic research on vertebrates at the molecular, organismal and community levels. The Institute’s principal research topics include:

(1) Biological diversity at the molecular, organismal and community levels.
(2) Evolutionary relationships among populations and species, natural hybrid zones and speciation.
(3) Population dynamics and changes and trends in community structure in natural and disturbed habitats, including modelling and prognoses.
(4) Physiological, behavioural, ecological and evolutionary mechanisms involved in vertebrate life-histories, especially in relation to their ontogenetic development.
(5) Reproductive strategies, survival rates, feeding behaviour and inter- and intraspecific interactions.
(6) Ectoparasites of higher vertebrates and their role as hosts, vectors and reservoirs of human and animal diseases in natural foci

The aim of such investigations is to obtain original data on genetic, population and species diversity; phylogeny; population dynamics and environmental interactions and associations of human and animal microbial pathogens with free-living vertebrates.

/ Co-Principal Investigator of ECIP read more about me Prof. Tomáš Scholz, PhD	/ Team leader read more about me Astrid Holzer, PhD	/ Team leader read more about me Aneta Kostadinova, PhD	/ Researcher read more about me Roman Kuchta, PhD
/ Researcher read more about me Anna Faltýnková, PhD	/ Researcher read more about me František Moravec, DrSc.	/ Researcher read more about me Ivan Fiala, PhD	/ Postdoctoral fellow read more about me Jan Brabec, PhD
/ Postdoctoral fellow read more about me Simona Georgieva, PhD	/ Postdoctoral fellow read more about me Olena Kudlai, PhD	/ Postdoctoral fellow read more about me Miroslava Soldánová, PhD	/ Postdoctoral fellow read more about me Pavla Bartošová-Sojková, PhD
/ Postdoctoral fellow read more about me Inga Meyer-Wachsmuth, PhD	/ Postdoctoral fellow read more about me Alena Kodádková, PhD	/ PhD student read more about me Jana Zikmundová, MSc	/ PhD student read more about me Sneha Patra, M.Sc.