Institute of Parasitology

DVM from the Veterinary University in Brno, Czech Republic, 1965;
PhD, Parasitology and epizootiology, The Veterinary University in Brno, 1971;
DSc from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1989

PhD thesis on pathology of filariasis of red deer; postdoctoral studies (1972–1974) on pathology and epizootiology of stephanurosis in pigs; studies on pathology of infections caused by helminths, concluded by a series of papers devoted to pathogenicity of the bladder worm (1975–1978). Since 1979 involved in the reserch of morphology, biology and pathogenicity of various groups of eukaryotic microorganisms infecting fish. Protozoan and virus diseases of shrimps studied during a short stay in Cuba (1986); histology of parasitic crustacea (Branchiura) of fish during a stay at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, USA; Recent research is focused on amphizoic amoebae infecting fish; particular attention is paid to variability of changes elicited by protists and myxozoans in fish tissues and organs.

Principal organizer of three international symposia (on fish parasites in 1983 and 1999, on biology of free-living amoebae in 2005);
Organizer and lecturer at international training courses on parasites of fishes organized by the Institute of Parasitology and FAO (1991, 1993);
Lecturer in training courses in ichthyoparasitology (Peru, Mexico, Tasmania, Australia)
Branch officer of the European Association of Fish Pathologists;
Supervisor of BSc, MSc and PhD students and chairperson of the Committee for Postgradute Studies at the University of South Bohemia, member of the same committee at Masaryk University in Brno.