Department of Parasitology invites you to the student seminars Zlata Limpouchová (BSc. student) Diverzita kryptosporidií u pěvců. (in Czech) Klára Brdíčková (MSc. student) The role of the inflammation in activation of latent microsporidiosis caused by Encephalitozoon cuniculi in immunocompetent and immunodeficient mice. (in Czech, slides in English) Martina...
Brazilian researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary history of amoebae and demonstrated that at the end of the Precambrian period, at least 750 million years ago, life on Earth was much more diverse than suggested by classic theory. The research team, including Anush Kosakyan, a current scientist at the Institute of Parasitology, Biology centra CAS, reconstructed Amoebozoa's evolution,...
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Under the supervision of Alena Zíková, the Functional Biology of Protists lab focuses on the unique bioenergetic properties of the fatal human parasite, Trypanosoma brucei.
We are now almost within sight of A68 and a survey to measure the thickness of the sea ice has already crossed A68. Unfortunately, heavy ice conditions made our progress quite cumbersome. During the past week, we literally nudged our way metre by metre through the ice. At times, our progress was so small that it did not even compensate for the displacement of the ice-drift.
Plasmodium falciparum has shown an ability to evade everything we throw at it, most recently artemisinin-based combination therapies, today’s front-line treatment.