Research Goals
Due to environmental and socio-economic changes as well as growing interconnection of the world, infectious diseases are becoming an important challenge for human and veterinary medicine. Our main goal is thus interdisciplinary and complex research on human and veterinary pathogens with main emphasis on: discovery and scientific description of novel (emerging) pathogens, consideration the role of microbial pathogens and their vertebrate hosts in their natural ecosystems, co-evolution of pathogens with vertebrate reservoirs, risk assessment, determination of preventive and control measures with regard to suppression of emerging infectious diseases.
Issues addressed:
- ecology of arthropod-borne pathogenic microorganisms (e.g., West Nile and tick-borne encephalitis flaviviruses, spirochaete Borrelia burgdorferi, rickettsia Anaplasma phagocytophilum, and protozoan Babesia spp.) including risk assessment;
- implementing ‘One health’ concept for studying emerging zoonoses;
- white nose syndrome (geomycosis caused by newly described fungus Geomyces destructans) as an emerging threat for european bat population;
- co-evolution of arena-, hanta- and herpesviruses with their reservoir hosts;
- complex research on parasite-host relationship in african primates.
Running projects
Grant agency of the Czech Republic
Co-investigator: RNDr. Radim Blažek Ph.D.
Co-investigator: Mgr. Dagmar Čížková Ph.D.
Investigator: Joëlle Goüy de Bellocq Ph.D.
Investigator: Mgr. Klára Petrželková Ph.D.
International projects
Investigator: doc. RNDr. Ivo Rudolf Ph.D.
Investigator: Mgr. Klára Petrželková Ph.D.
Ministry of Health
Investigator: doc. RNDr. Ivo Rudolf Ph.D.
Finished projects
Grant agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Investigator: prof. RNDr. Zdeněk Hubálek DrSc.
Investigator: doc. RNDr. Ivo Rudolf Ph.D.
Investigator: Mgr. Klára Petrželková Ph.D.
Investigator: Mgr. Klára Petrželková Ph.D.
Grant agency of the Czech Republic
Co-investigator: Ing. Pavel Jurajda Dr.
Investigator: Mgr. Klára Petrželková Ph.D.
Investigator: Joëlle Goüy de Bellocq Ph.D.
Investigator: Joëlle Goüy de Bellocq Ph.D.
Investigator: Mgr. Natália Martínková Ph.D.
Investigator: Ing. Pavel Jurajda Dr.
Investigator: Mgr. Markéta Ondračková Ph.D.
Investigator: Joëlle Goüy de Bellocq Ph.D.
Investigator: prom. biol. Jaroslav Piálek CSc.
Co-investigator: Mgr. Klára Petrželková Ph.D.
Investigator: Mgr. Klára Petrželková Ph.D.
Investigator: Mgr. Markéta Ondračková Ph.D.
Individual projects
Investigator: Mgr. Natália Martínková Ph.D.
Investigator: Mgr. Klára Petrželková Ph.D.
International projects
Investigator: prof. RNDr. Zdeněk Hubálek DrSc.
Investigator: prof. RNDr. Zdeněk Hubálek DrSc.
Investigator: prof. RNDr. Zdeněk Hubálek DrSc.
Investigator: prof. RNDr. Zdeněk Hubálek DrSc.
Co-investigator: prof. RNDr. Zdeněk Hubálek DrSc.
Co-investigator: prof. RNDr. Zdeněk Hubálek DrSc.
Ministry of Agriculture
Investigator: Ing. Miroslav Prokeš, CSc.
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport
Investigator: RNDr. Jiří Halouzka, Ph.D.
Investigator: Mgr. Klára Petrželková Ph.D.