Institute of Parasitology

University education
2000 Bc. Degree thesis: “Occurrence of developmental stages of trematodes (Digenea) in the vicinity of České Budějovice” Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice (supervisor Professor T. Scholz)
2002 Master thesis: “Biology of developmental stages of trematodes from aquatic molluscs” Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia České Budějovice (supervisor Professor T. Scholz)
2003 RNDr. thesis: “Cercariae of trematodes from Bythinella austriaca (Frauenfeld, 1857) agg. (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia)”, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice
2006 PhD thesis: “Developmental stages of trematodes (Digenea) in Central Europe”, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice (supervisor Professor T. Scholz)

Research Activities and Stays Abroad
University of Nicolaus Kopernikus, Department of zoology of inverterbrates, Toruń, Poland (2.-8.9. 2001); species composition of larval trematodes in northern Poland

Parasitic Worms Division, Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, London, UK, D. I. Gibson (24.11.-7.12. 2003); studies on echinostomatid trematodes in the Museum collection
Institute for Zoology I, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, Wilfried Haas (1.4.-31.7. 2004); survey of cercariae of South-East Germany

Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, E. Tellervo Valtonen (15.-28.8. 2005; 24.7.-21.8. 2006); furcocercous cercariae in Finland – survey of species and their ecology; joint project of Finnish and Czech Academies.

Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä (April 2007 – March 2009), E. T. Valtonen, A. Karvonen; Post Doc research, trematode communities in snails and fish, trematode transmission dynamics.

Other activities
Since 2000 member of the Czech Society for Parasitology, Helminthological section
2002-2003 member of the organising committee of the national conference of Helminthological Days organised by the Czech Society for Parasitology
2005 member of the organising committee of the Workshop on Cestode Systematics and Phylogeny, 18-22 July, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Publications

Books
Sitko J., Faltýnková A., Scholz T. 2006. Checklist of the Trematodes (Digenea) of Birds of the Czech and Slovak Republics. Academia, Praha, 112 pp.

Articles in International Journals

Faltýnková A., Literák I. 2002. Cercariae of trematodes from Bythinella austriaca (Frauenfeld, 1857) agg. (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Acta Parasitologica 47: 196–204.
Faltýnková A.2005. Larval trematodes (Digenea) in molluscs from small water bodies near České Budějovice, Czech Republic. Acta Parasitologica 50: 49–55.
Faltýnková A. , Haas W. 2006. Larval trematodes in freshwater molluscs from the Elbe to Danube rivers (South-East Germany): before and today. Parasitology Research 99: 572–582.
Faltýnková A., Horáčková E., Hirtová L., Novobilský A., Modrý D., Scholz T. 2006. Is Radix peregra a new intermediate host of Fascioloides magna (Trematoda) in Europe? Field and experimental evidence. Acta Parasitologica 51: 87–90.
Řičánková V., Fric Z., Chlachula J., Šťastná P., Faltýnková A. , Zemek F. 2006. Habitat requirements of the long-tailed ground squirrel in the Southern Altai. Journal of Zoology 270: 1–8.
Faltýnková A. , Našincová V., Kablásková L. 2007. Larval trematodes (Digenea) of the great pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis (L.), (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) in Central Europe: a survey of species and key to their identification. Parasite – Journal de la Société Française de Parasitologie 14: 39–51.
Faltýnková A., Niewiadomska K., Santos M.J., Valtonen E.T. 2007. Furcocercous cercariae (Trematoda) from freshwater snails in Central Finland. Acta Parasitologica 52: 310–317.
Santos M.J., Karvonen A., Pedro J., Faltýnková A., Seppälä O., Valtonen, E. T. 2007. Behaviour as a tool elucidating species identity in furcocercarial trematodes. Journal of Parasitology 93: 1319–1323.
Faltýnková A., Našincová V., Kablásková L. 2008. Larval trematodes (Digenea) of planorbid snails (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) in Central Europe: a survey of species and key to their identification. Systematic Parasitology 69: 155–178.
Faltýnková A., Gibson D.I., Kostadinova A. 2008. A revision of Patagifer Dietz, 1909 (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) and a key to its species. Systematic Parasitology (in press).
Faltýnková A. , Gibson D.I., Kostadinova A. 2008. A revision of Petasiger Dietz, 1909 (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) and a key to its species. Systematic Parasitology (in press).