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: 6 Radim Blažek 21
Co-investigator: 7 Dagmar Čížková 21
Investigator: Joëlle Goüy de Bellocq 21
Investigator: 7 Klára Petrželková 21
Individual projects
Investigator: 12 Ivo Rudolf 21
International projects
Investigator: 12 Ivo Rudolf 21
Ministry of Health
Investigator: 12 Ivo Rudolf 21
Finished projects
Grant agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Investigator: 9 Zdeněk Hubálek 23
Investigator: 12 Ivo Rudolf 21
Investigator: 7 Klára Petrželková 21
Investigator: 7 Klára Petrželková 21
Grant agency of the Czech Republic
Co-investigator: 3 Pavel Jurajda 24
Investigator: 7 Klára Petrželková 21
Investigator: Joëlle Goüy de Bellocq 21
Investigator: Joëlle Goüy de Bellocq 21
Investigator: 19 Natália Martínková 21
Investigator: 3 Pavel Jurajda 24
Investigator: 7 Markéta Ondračková 21
Investigator: Joëlle Goüy de Bellocq 21
Investigator: 13 Jaroslav Piálek 22
Co-investigator: 7 Klára Petrželková 21
Investigator: 7 Klára Petrželková 21
Investigator: 7 Markéta Ondračková 21
Individual projects
Investigator: 19 Natália Martínková 21
Investigator: 7 Klára Petrželková 21
International projects
Investigator: 9 Zdeněk Hubálek 23
Investigator: 9 Zdeněk Hubálek 23
Investigator: 9 Zdeněk Hubálek 23
Investigator: 9 Zdeněk Hubálek 23
Co-investigator: 9 Zdeněk Hubálek 23
Co-investigator: 9 Zdeněk Hubálek 23
Ministry of Agriculture
Investigator: Ing. Miroslav Prokeš, CSc.
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport
Investigator: RNDr. Jiří Halouzka, Ph.D.
Investigator: 7 Klára Petrželková 21