Mgr. Zuzana Vavrušková, Ph.D.

Job Position: Head of department - Animal Facility

Contact details

Phone: +420 387775401
E-mail: vavruskova@paru.cas.cz
Room: 645, 662 (PAU II)

Curriculum vitae

Education

Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia

Bachelor's thesis: Occurence of ticks and tick-borne pathogens in a urban park area of Ceske Budejovice. Supervisor: Libor Grubhoffer, supervisor - specialist: Mgr. Václav Hönig. Defended: May 2010
Master's thesis (2011–2013): Vector-pathogen-host interaction on the example of spirochetes Lyme boreliosis disease (and tick-borne encephalistis virus). Supervisor: Libor Grubhoffer. Supervisor - specialist: Mgr. Václav Hönig. Defended: January 2013.
Doctoral thesis (2017–present) Quantification of the metabolic costs associated with dispersal in social species of mole-rats in laboratory conditions. Supervisor: Mgr. Jan Okrouhlík, PhD. Supervisor specialist: prof. Mgr. Radim Šumbera, Ph.D

Publications

Total found: 7 records
Horáková E., Vrbacký M., Tesařová M., Stříbrná E., Pilný J., Vavrušková Z., Vancová M., Sobotka R., Lukeš J., Perner J. (2024) Haptoglobin is dispensable for haemoglobin uptake by Trypanosoma brucei Frontiers in Immunology 15 : 1441131. DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1441131 Documents to download: Horakova_2024_FrontImmunol (pdf)
Selinger M., Tykalová H., Štěrba J., Věchtová P., Vavrušková Z., Lieskovská J., Kohl A., Schnettler E., Grubhoffer L. (2019) Tick-borne encephalitis virus inhibits rRNA synthesis and host protein production in human cells of neural origin. Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases 27 : e0007745. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007745
Selinger M., Tykalová H., Vavrušková Z., Schnettler E., Kohl A., Štěrba J., Grubhoffer L. (2018) Tick-borne encephalitis virus induces translational shut-off in human cells of neural origin Febs Open Bio 8 (suppl. 1) Meeting Abstract : 199.
Hönig V., Carolan H., Vavrušková Z., Massire C., Mosel M.R., Crowder C., Rounds M., Ecker D., Růžek D., Grubhoffer L., Luft B., Eshoo M. (2017) Broad-range survey of vector-borne pathogens and tick host identification of Ixodes ricinus from Southern Czech Republic FEMS Microbiology Ecology 93 : fix129. DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fix129
Černý J., Selinger M., Palus M., Vavrušková Z., Tykalová H., Bell-Sakyi L., Štěrba J., Grubhoffer L., Růžek D. (2016) Expression of a second open reading frame present in the genome of tick-borne encephalitis virus strain Neudoerfl is not detectable in infected cells Virus Genes 52 : 309-316. DOI: 10.1007/s11262-015-1273-y
Hönig V., Švec P., Halas P., Vavrušková Z., Šťastná H., Kilian P., Vrtišková V., Dorňáková V., Dupejová J., Simonová Z., Mondeková H., Erhart J., Štěrba J., Golovchenko M., Grubhoffer L., Rudenko N. (2015) Ticks and tick-borne pathogens in South Bohemia (Czech Republic) - spatial variability in Ixodes ricinus abundance, Borrelia burgdorferi and tick-borne encephalitis virus prevalence Ticks and Tick-borne diseases 6 : 559-567. DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2015.04.010
Schwarz A., Hönig V., Vavrušková Z., Grubhoffer L., Balczun C., Albring A., Schaub G. (2012) Abundance of Ixodes ricinus and prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. in the nature reserve Siebengebirge, Germany, in comparison to three ormer studies from 1978 onwards. Parasites & vectors 5 : 268. DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-268

Mgr. Zuzana Vavrušková, Ph.D.

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