Institute of Parasitology

Biology Centre, ASCR, v.v.i.

Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

RNDr. Ivan Fiala PhD.

Department: Department of Eukaryotic Microorganisms Infecting Fish
Laboratory: Department of Eukaryotic Microorganisms Infecting Fish
Position: Research scientist
Telephone 1: 5425
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Email 1: fiala@paru.cas.cz
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Research area: Myxosporean and protozoan parasites of fish - phylogeny and taxonomy







Curriculum vitae:

University Education

1998 – BSc at the Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia
2000 – MSc at the Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia
2006 – PhD at the Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia (Phylogenetic relationships among Myxozoa. Supervised by Prof. Iva Dyková)

Research activities

2002 - two week stay at the Institute of Hydrobiology,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China; sampling of fresh material of myxozoans from freshwater fish
2003 - three week cruise off the coast of the British; sampling of marine fish from different localities of the North Atlantic Ocean to collect myxozoans
2003 - oral presentation on Sixth International Symposium on fish Parasites, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
2004 - three week stay at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Chetumal, Mexico; sampling of fish
2004 - two week cruise off the coast of the British Isles; sampling of marine fish from deep sea of the Atlantic Ocean to collect myxozoans
2004 - two week stay at Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos, Peru; assistant on the course: Curso Teoretico y Practico de Ictioparasitología: Protozoos y Myxosporidios – Patógenos de Peces
2005 - oral presentation on EAFP 12th International Conference in Copenhagen

Projects:

GAAV - KJB600960701 - Fylogenetické vztahy v rámci skupiny Myxosporea na základě kombinované analýzy sekvencí ribosomálních a proteinových genů: evoluce významné skupiny rybích parazitů Kinetoplastid endosymbionts in amoebae of the genus Neoparamoeba Page, 1987

Recent publications:

DYKOVÁ I., FIALA I., DVOŘÁKOVÁ H., PECKOVÁ H. (2008) Living together: The marine amoeba Thecamoeba hilla Schaeffer, 1926 and its endosymbiont Labyrinthula sp. European Journal of Protistology 44, 308- 316.
DYKOVÁ I., FIALA I., PECKOVÁ H. (2008) Neoparamoeba spp. and their eukaryotic endosymbionts similar to Perkinsela amoebae (Hollande, 1980): Coevolution demonstrated by SSU rRNA gene phylogenies. European Journal of Protistology 44, 269- 277.
DYKOVÁ I., FIALA I., PECKOVÁ H., DVOŘÁKOVÁ H. (2008) Phylogeny of flabellulids inferred from SSU rDNA sequences of the type strain of Flabellula citata Schaeffer, 1926 and newly isolated strains of marine amoebae. FoliaParasitologica 55, 256- 264.
DYKOVÁ I., LOM J., DVOŘÁKOVÁ H., PECKOVÁ H., FIALA I. (2007) Didymium-like myxogastrids (class Mycetozoa) as endocommensals of sea urchins (Sphaerechinus granularis). Folia Parasitologica 54, 1- 12.
DYKOVÁ I., NOWAK B., PECKOVÁ H., FIALA I., DVOŘÁKOVÁ H. (2007) Phylogeny of Neoparamoeba strains isolated from marine fish and invertebrates as inferred from SSU rDNA sequences. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 74, 57- 65.
DYKOVÁ I., TYML T., FIALA I., LOM J. (2007) New data on Soricimyxum fegati (Myxozoa) including analysis of its phylogenetic position inferred from the SSU rRNA gene sequence. Folia Parasitologica 54, 272- 276.
JIRKŮ M., FIALA I., MODRÝ D. (2007) Tracing the genus Sphaerospora: rediscovery, redescription and phylogeny of the Sphaerospora ranae (Morelle, 1929) n. comb. (Myxosporea, Sphaerosporidae), with emendation of the genus Sphaerospora. Parasitology 134, 1727- 1739.

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