prof. RNDr. Julius Lukeš, CSc.
Job Position: Head of Laboratory - Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Protists
Phone:
+420 387775416
E-mail:
jula@paru.cas.cz
Web:
www.paru.cas.cz
Room:
PARU II
Professional Experience:
1991–present Research Scientist, Institute of Parasitology, České Budějovice
1992–2012 Member of the Scientific Board of the Institute of Parasitology
1993 Postdoctoral Fellow, E.C.Slater Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1995–2022 Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Institute of Parasitology
1994–1997 Assistant, Faculty of Biology, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice
1997–1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside
1998–1999 Visiting Scientist, Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles
2003–2012 Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology, University of South Bohemia
2006–present Professor, Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia
2007–2012 Member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Sciences
2008–2013 Member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Agriculture
2008–2012 Head of the Scientific Board of the Institute of Parasitology
2012–2022 Director of the Institute of Parasitology
2012–2018 Committee member of the International Society of Protistologists
2021–present Vice–head of the principal Scientific Board of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Honors and Awards:
1993 EMBO Fellowship
1995 Fulbright Travel Grant
1997 Young Scientist Award of the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences
2000–2005 European Councillor of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology
2006–2008 President of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology
2002 Prize of the Czech Academy of Sciences for outstanding young researchers
2003–2009 President of the Czech Society of Protozoology
2004–present Member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic
2007 Prize of the Czech Academy of Sciences
2007–2009 Vice–president of the International Society of Protistologists
2009–2011 Associate of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
2011 Prize of the Minister of Education for Excellence in Research
2012–2017 Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
2013–present Member of the Faculty of 1000
2013 Medal from the mayor for merits in research and education
2014–present Fellow of the American Academy for Microbiology
2015–present Fellow of the European Academy of Microbiology
2016–present Member of the Comenius Academic Club
2018–present Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2020 Prize of the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences for research excellence
2020–present Member of the scientific board of the Neuron Endowment Fund
2023–present Member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2023–present EMBO member
2023 J. G. Mendel medal for Achievements in Natural Sciences
2023 Prize of the Minister of Education for Excellence in Research
2024–present Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
2025–2026 President elect of the International Society of Protistologists
Invited Lectures:
- University of Hannover, Germany, 1991
- University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1993, 1994, 2003
- University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, 1995
- State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA, 1995
- National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA, 1995
- Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA, 1997
- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, 1997, 2000
- University of California, Los Angeles, USA, 1998, 1999, 2002
- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 1999, 2006, 2007, 2010
- School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, 2000
- Institute of Cytology, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2001
- De Duve Institute of Pathology, Brussels, Belgium, 2002, 2006
- Max–Planck–Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany, 2002
- Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2003, 2008
- CIRAD, Montpellier, France, 2003
- Sun Yat–Sen University, Guangzhou, China, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2014
- Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 2004
- University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland, 2004
- Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA, 2004
- New York University, New York, USA, 2004
- University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 2004
- University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 2005
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Vancouver, Canada, 2005, 2006
- Foundation Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2005
- University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2005
- Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, USA, 2006, 2010
- Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, 2006
- South Medical University, Guangzhou, China, 2006
- Kuvin Centre, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 2006
- Technion–Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 2006
- University of California, Riverside, USA, 2007
- Philipps University, Marburg, Germany, 2008
- University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K., 2008
- Newcastle University, U.K., 2008
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Quebec, Canada, 2008
- University of Cambridge, U.K., 2008
- Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, 2008
- Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 2008
- University of Bern, Switzerland, 2008
- University of California, Irvine, USA, 2009
- Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, 2009
- University of Cardiff, Cardiff, U.K., 2010
- University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil, 2010
- Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, 2010
- Seattle Biomed, Seattle, USA, 2010, 2012
- Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, 2011, 2013
- King Abdulah University, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 2011
- Molecular Biology Laboratory, Cambridge, U.K., 2011
- University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011, 2012
- University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 2011
- Biodiversity Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2012
- University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K., 2012
- University of California, Riverside, USA, 2012
- Philipps University, Marburg, Germany, 2012
- National Institutes of Alergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, USA, 2012
- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, 2012
- University of Exeter, Exeter, U.K., 2012
- Chinese Agricultural University, Beijing, China, 2012
- Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, France, 2013
- Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, 2013
- Clemson University, Clemson, USA, 2013
- University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA, 2013
- Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, 2013
- University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, U.K., 2014
- Institute of Tropical Medicine, Havana, Cuba, 2014
- East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, 2014
- Beckman Centre, University of California, Irvine, USA, 2015
- University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, 2015
- Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2015
- University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., 2015
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, USA, 2015
- Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, 2015
- Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2016
- University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K., 2016
- University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2016
- University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany, 2016
- Duke University, Durham, USA, 2017
- Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, 2017
- State University of New York, Buffalo, USA, 2017
- Université de la Reunion, St. Denis, France, 2017
- Gdansk University, Gdansk, Poland, 2017
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, U.K., 2017
- École Normal Superieure, Lyon, France, 2017
- Ahmed Ben Bella University, Oran, Algeria, 2017
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Canada, 2018
- Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 2019
- École nationale vétérinaire d’Alfort, Paris, France, 2019
- Balaton Limnological Institute, Tihany, Hungary, 2020
- University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, 2020 (e–way)
- University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA, 2020 (e–way)
- New York University, New York, USA, 2022 (e–way)
- University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2022
- National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, 2023
- Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, USA, 2023
- EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany, 2023
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, USA, 2024
- University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia, 2024
- University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2024
- Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid, Spain, 2024
Editorial Board:
2004–2006 Protistology
2005–2011 Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
2004–2008 Kinetoplastid Biology and Diseases
2009–present The Open Parasitology Journal
2010–2012 International Journal for Parasitology
2011–2012 Folia Parasitologica (Associate Editor)
2015– PeerJ
2017– Protist (Associate Editor)
2018– PLoS Pathogens (ad hoc Associate Editor)
2019– Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology (Associate Editor)
2020– mLife
2024– PLoS Pathogens Pearls (Editor)
Principal organizer of conferences
- XIII. biannual conference (International Society for Evolutionary Protistology) – August 2000 (120 participants)
- Trypanosomiasis and Leishmaniasis seminar (British Society of Parasitology) – August 2004 (140 participants)
- Euroleish Meeting (EU consortium) – September 2004 (30 participants)
- Mitochondrion of trypanosomes enters the postproteomic era – September 2009 (70 participants)
- Integrated Microbial Biodiversity workshop (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) – June 2014 (75 participants)
- Trypanosomiasis and Leishmaniasis seminar (British Society of Parasitology) – September 2016 participants)
- Comparative genomics of unicellular eukaryotes: Interactions and symbioses (EMBO conference in St. Feliu de Guixols) – October 2022 (130 participants)
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Parasites
Faculty of Science University of South Bohemia
Biology of Parasitic Protozoa
Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia
Principles of Molecular Biology
Faculty of Science University of South Bohemia
