The Institute is hiring a new Assistant Professor in parasite immunology. More details on the position and how to apply can be found in the attached documents (English and French versions).
Toxoplasmosis, one of the most prevalent parasitic diseases in the world, produces no obvious symptoms in humans. However, a new study published in the journal Evolutionary Psychology has found the disease “can spur changes in a person’s political beliefs and values” through an inflammatory reaction.
Department of Parasitology invites you to the seminar: Ana Maria Filipe Osório de Barros de Almeida (Ph.D. student) - Functional analysis of Babesia calcium dependent protein kinases. (in English) The seminar will be held at 13:15 on Thursday 6 October 2022 in Faculty of Science, building C, lecture room C2.
Trypanosoma brucei is a complex of five ecotypes, namely, T. brucei f. brucei, T. b. f. gambiense, T. b. f. rhodesiense, T. b. f. equiperdum, and T. b. f. evansi, which are highly evolvable and appear to conquer new hosts and territories relatively easily as a result of just a few simple mutations in their genomes, which can be induced even in laboratory conditions. The subspecies status of T....
We invite you to the seminar "Systems biology studies of malaria drug modes of action and resistance mechanisms". The seminar will be held at 13:00 on Monday 11 July 2022 in seminar room PARU II, Institute of Parasitology.
Symposium will take place from July 19-22 2022, in České Budějovice, at the Faculty of Science of the University of South Bohemia and the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Molecular biologist Alena Zíková from the Institute of Parasitology, Biology Center CAS has received a prestigious European grant - ERC Consolidator. At the beginning of June, the European Research Council (ERC) proposed her scientific project MitoSignal to be funded with 2 million euros for five years. Alena Zíková will study the mechanisms that enable communication within the cell, a...
Despite the widespread occurrence of intracellular crystalline inclusions in unicellular eukaryotes, scant attention has been paid to their composition, functions, and evolutionary origins. Using Raman microscopy, we examined >200 species from all major eukaryotic supergroups. We detected cellular crystalline inclusions in 77% species out of which 80% is composed of purines, such as anhydrous...
