Dr. Pascal Boireau, Director of the Laboratory for Animal Health, Maisons-Alfort, ANSES, France, a distinguished collaborator of the Institute of Parasitology, received the Gregor Johann Mendel Medal for merit in the biological sciences. He received the award during a September meeting at the Institute of Parasitology of the BC CAS, during which a joint virtual French-Czech Institute of...
The University of Crete and Prorata Research Company, in cooperation with 29 other partners from around the world, have partnered with each other since November 2022 for the implementation of a flagship European Horizon project entitled “Curing EU Aquaculture by co-creating health and welfare innovations (Cure4Aqua)” with the aim of improving the welfare of fish which are bred in fish farming...
The 2 nd French – Czech Tick Meeting (FCTM2) was held at the Institute of Parasitology on the 25 th and 26 th of September. The 2 day meeting brought together scientists from France working on tick and tick-borne pathogens at ANSES & INRAE and those from the Institute of Parasitology as well as the University of South Bohemia, also conducting...
The source: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/ for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 The discoveries by the two Nobel Laureates were critical for developing effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 during the pandemic that began in early 2020. Through...
Saving Kuňka obecná Bombina bombina (Linnaeus, 1761) Kuňka have been saved from the certain death by a well-known heroes Jula and Miloň, from an almost dried-up puddle. Kuňka found a safe haven in our institutional pond near LEM. Miloň_in_action The frogs are prepared for a...
Institute of Parasitology invites you to the seminar: “Insights into pathogenesis of diseases accompanying suppressed HIV-1 infection” The seminar will be held at 13:00 on Wednesday 4 October 2023 in seminar room PARU II (2nd floor PARU Animal Facility), Institute of Parasitology Abstract: Anti-retroviral therapy (ART)...
Malaria, an infectious disease caused by parasites belonging to the Plasmodium genus and transmitted by infected mosquitoes, is responsible for mortality and morbidity in over 40% of the world, making it one of the most devastating diseases in human history. In fact, the disease is thought to be responsible for between 2-5% of all fatalities that occurred during the 20th century (between 150...
The predoctoral contract (FPI fellowship) associated with the research project Evolutionary and ecological determinants of specialization: Disentangling the drivers of host specificity in a fishmonogenean model. funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain.
Serial block-face scanning electron microscopy (SBF-SEM or SBEM) is a state-of-the-art groundbreaking technique that offers volume imaging of ~1 mm3 large biological objects at nanometer-scale resolution. We have successfully applied the minimal resin (MR) embedding method to the sample preparation protocol and showed that this simple approach tackles simultaneously two major problems of...
