European Centre of Ichtyoparasitology

ECIP - European Centre of Ichtyoparasitology

Co-investigator: Ing. Pavel Jurajda, Dr.
Number of Project: P505/12/G112
Agency: Grant agency of the Czech Republic
Duration: 01. 01. 2012 - 31. 12. 2018

Fish parasitology belongs among a very few areas of bio-ecological research in the Czech Republic that actually play a leading role at the international level and have the highest international reputation. The proposed project to establish the European Centre of Ichthyoparasitology represents a follow-up of previous research, with several new innovations and main focus on complementarity, formation of young researchers and a more intensive mutual collaboration of all teams involved. The project is based on five moduls, each of them representing a different spectrum of methodological approaches to be applied in studies of seven basic groups of parasites (protists, myxozoans, ectoparasitic and endoparasitic helminths – tapeworms, diplostomatid metacercariae and nematodes) and their fish hosts. Multidisciplinarity and complementary of individual teams, which form the ECIP, is considered to be the strongest aspect of the proposed project.