Graduated students

Alena Zíková 
1997–2006; RNA editing in trypanosomes
worked at Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, USA
started her lab at the Institute of Parasitology, České Budějovice (until 2010)
does research on trypanosomes

Jan Šlapeta (co-supervisor)
1998–2003; phylogeny and life cycles of coccidia
PhD at Veterinary and Pharmaceutical University, Brno, CR
moved to University of New York, Albany, USA, University of Paris,
France and recently at University of Sydney, Australia
does research on parasitic organisms (until 2010)

Jan Votýpka (co-supervisor)
1999–2004; life cycles and vectors of trypanosomes
PhD at Charles University, Prague, CR
habilitation at Charles University, Prague, CR (2010)
does research on trypanosomes and coccidians (until 2010)

Eva Vondrušková-Horáková
2000–2005; RNA editing and processing in trypanosomes
moved to University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
maternity leave + does research on leishmania (until 2010)
back in our lab since 2011

Silvie Foldynová–Trantírková
2001–2006; RNA editing processing in trypanosomes
moved to University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
does research on NMR spectroscopy (until 2012)

Eva Zemanová-Chocholová
2001–2006; evolution of Leishmania
worked at University of Liege, Liege, Belgium
moved to Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, České Budějovice (until 2010)
does research in plant molecular biology

De–Hua Lai (co–supervisor)
2003–2007; evolution of kinetoplast in trypanosomes
PhD at Sun-Yat Sen University, Guangzhou, China
moved to Institute of Parasitology, České Budějovice (until 2010)
does research on the mitochondrion of trypanosomes (until 2010)

Hassan Hashimi
2005–2009; RNA editing and processing in trypanosomes
Master thesis at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
works at the Institute of Parasitology, České Budějovice (until 2010)
does research on the mitochondrion of trypanosomes

Shaojun Long
2005–2009; Fe-S cluster assembly in trypanosomes
Master thesis at Sun-Yat Sen University, Guangzhou, China
moved to University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (until 2010)
does research on Fe-S cluster assembly in plants
moved to University of Washington, St. Louis, USA (until present)
does research on molecular biology of malaria

Zdeněk Paris
2006–2010; tRNA import and respiratory complexes in trypanosomes
Master thesis at University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice
moved to Ohio State University, Columbus, USA (until 2014)
does research on tRNA modifications and tRNA import in trypanosomes
founded his lab at the Institute of Parasitology (2014)

Zdeněk Verner
2006–2011; mitochondrial metabolism in trypanosomes
Master thesis at University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice
moved to Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia (until 2014)  
moved to Charles University, Prague, CR (until present)
does research on metabolism in kinetoplastid flagellates

Luděk Kořený (co-supervisor)
2007–2011; heme metabolism in protists
Master thesis at University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice
moved to University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (until 2013)
moved to Dundee University, Dundee, Scotland (until 2015)
moved to University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (until 2017)
does research on molecular biology of Toxoplasma

Piya Changmai
2009–2013; Fe-S cluster synthesis in trypanosomes
Master thesis at University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice
will move to University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic (until present)
does research on human evolution

Lucie Novotná–Ridlon
2009–2014; mitochondrial translation in trypanosomes
Master thesis at University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice
moved to Salk Institute, La Jolla, USA (since 2013)
does research on spatio-temporal organization of plasma membrane

Somsuvro Basu
2010–2014; cytosolic Fe-S cluster assembly in trypanosomes
Master thesis at Visvabharati University, Santiniketan, India
moved to Philipps Universitat, Marburg, Germany (since 2014)
does research on Fe-S cluster assembly in humans

Lucie Kafková 
2010–2012
moved to Oxford University, Unitek Kingdom

Zhenqiu Huang
2011–2015; dynamics and function of proteins involved in RNA editing
Master thesis at Sun-Yat Sen University, Guanzghou, China
moved to Arizona State University, Tempe, USA (since 2016)
does research on telomerases 

Jiří Týč
2011–2015; mitochondrial heat shock and ribosomal proteins in trypanosomes
Master thesis at University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice
moved to Oxford Brooks University, Oxford, U.K. (until 2017)
does research on ultrastructure of trypanosomes and other eukaryotes

Sameer Dixit
2013–2018
moved to Colombia University, New York, USA

Eva Dobáková
2013–2015; Euglena and Paratrypanosoma – various aspects of their mitochondrial biology
Master thesis at Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Moved to pharmaceutical company, Bratislava, Slovakia

Tomáš Skalický
2013–2017; bioinformatics of kinetoplastid flagellates
Master thesis at University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice
moved to Central European Institute of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic (since 2017)
does research on RNA binding proteins in humans

Iosif Kaurov 
2014–2019
moved to Museum of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czechia

Sabine Kaltenbrunner 
2015–2017
moved to Joannes Kepler University, Faculty of Medicine, Linz Austria

Binnypreet Kaur
2016–2020; mitochondrial genome and transcriptome in diplonemids
Master thesis in India
Maternity leave, currently at Biology Centre, České Budějovice

Anna Nenarokova
2016–2020; bioinformatics on insect trypanosomatids
Master thesis in Moscow
Moved to School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

Ambar Kachale
2018–2023
moved to Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Shaghayegh Sheikh 
2018–2023 
moved to Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm Sweden

Pragya Tripathi 
2018–2023
now maternity leave

Mgr.Lawrence Rudy Cadena 
2019–2022
moved to Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf Germany

Vendula Rašková
2019–2023
moved to Central European Institute of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic

FORMER BACHELOR AND/OR MASTER STUDENTS