Mgr. Ondřej Mikula, Ph.D.

Position: post-doc
Research topics: phylogeny and morphology of rodents
Department: External research facility Studenec
Phone: +420 532 290 156
Mobile: +420 777 184 259
E-mail: onmikulagmail.com

Research interests

  • geometric morphometrics and species delimitation,
  • evolution and taxonomy of small mammals,
  • hybridization and speciation in house mice.



    Education

  • 1999–2004: undergraduate study - Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Science, Systematic Zoology a Ecology. Diploma thesis: Morphometric analysis of the hybrid zone between Mus musculus and Mus domesticus in the western Bohemia.
  • 2004–2009: Ph.D. study - Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Science, Zoology. Ph.D. thesis: Changes of developmental stability in house mice as a consequence of hybridization.

    Employment

  • 2009-present: Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Laboratory of Mammalian Evolutionary Genetics - postdoctoral fellow,
  • 2010-present: Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Department of Population Biology Studenec - postdoctoral fellow.

    International experience

  • 2005, 2006: Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii, Warsawa - short stay within the programme EU Synthesys,
  • 2012: Museum national d'historie naturelle, Paris - short stay within the programme EU Synthesys,
  • Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, Tervuren Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris Natural History Museum, London American Museum of Natural History, New York - short visits at Natural History Museums.

    Projects

  • Immunogenetic study of a house mouse hybrid zone (2008-2012).
  • Comparative phylogeography of Zambezian region in Southeastern Africa using small mammals as a model (2010-2014).
  • Population structure, dispersal and explorative behaviour in the zone of secondary contact of house mice (2011-2014).

    Publications

    2014

    J. BRYJA, O. MIKULA, H. PATZENHAUEROVÁ, N. O. OGUGE, R. ŠUMBERA, E. VERHEYEN: The role of dispersal and vicariance in the Pleistocene history of an East African mountain rodent, Praomys delectorum, Journal of Biogeography 41 (2014) 196-208.

    J. BRYJA, O. MIKULA, H. PATZENHAUEROVÁ, N. O. OGUGE, R. ŠUMBERA, E. VERHEYEN: The role of dispersal and vicariance in the Pleistocene history of an East African mountain rodent, Praomys delectorum, Journal of Biogeography 41 (2014) 196-208.


    2013

    Z. HIADLOVSKÁ, B. VOŠLAJEROVÁ BÍMOVÁ, O. MIKULA, J. PIÁLEK, M. MACHOLÁN: Transgressive segregation in a behavioural trait? Explorative strategies in two house mouse subspecies and their hybrids, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 108 (2013) 225-235.