Others
Running projects:
- Inter-excellence project to support CZ-US collaboration, Ministry of Education (2025-2028): Ecology and diversity of Blastocystis in humans and non-human primates with contrasting lifestyles. (collaboration with J. Maloney and M. Santín, United States Department of Agriculture)
- J. A. Commenius Operational Programme (2025-2028): Biology of Hyaluronic Acid. Implementation of Research Objective 2 (PI - BC CAS)
- Norwegian Research Council (2023-2027): The role of Blastocystis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. (Co-I 1: K. Jirků, M. Kolísko; PI: M. van der Giezen; Co-I 2: C. R. Stensvold)
Terminated project:
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Grant project from the Czech Grant Agency (2022-2024): Associations between protists and bacteriome in the gut ecosystem of houshodl dogs and their owners across a transition to modern lifestyle (PI: K. Jirků)
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Inter-excellence project to support CZ-US collaboration, Ministry of Education (2020-2022): An influence of specific factors on the anti-inflammatory effect of the commensal helminth in the host gut. (collaboration with W. Parker, Duke University)
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Young Investigator grant, Human Frontier Science Organization (7/2015-6/2019): Interplay of eukaryotic symbionts with gut microbiome and influence on immune-mediated diseases. PI – K. Jirků Pomajbíková; Co-I Laura Wegener-Parfrey (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Projects from the Grant Agency of the University of South Bohemia:
2021-2022: Changes in the transcriptome of a commensal protist with possible functional impact on host gut (PI: Z. Lhotská)
Students` projects from the Student Grant Agency (SGA) of the University of South Bohemia:
2025:
- Occurrence and zoonotic trasnmission of intestinal protist Blastocystis sp. in humans and dogs (PI: E. Zimmelová)
- Occurrence and genetic diversity of Blastocystis sp. in rats and mice from different geographic locations (PI: S. Hejcmanová)
2021: qPCR diagnostics of Blastocystis in humans (PI: M. Šloufová)
2020: Introduction of qPCR diagnostics of opportunistic protist Giardia intestinalis as part of an epidemiological study in the Czech Republic (PI: K. Brožová)
2019: Incidence and prevalence of the gut protist Dientamoeba fragilis in human and animals’ populations in the Czech Republic (PI: A. Růžičková)
2018: Study of gut protist of the genus Blastocystis in human microbiome (PI: Z. Lhotská)
2016:
- Monitoring of IL-10 gene expression in immune response of the rat model during Hymenolepis diminuta infection (PI: J. Levá)
- Molecular-phylogenetic characterization of Hymenolepis diminuta isolate maintained under laboratory conditions (PI: L. Řežábková)
2015:
- Introduction of a suitable in vitro model for the study of gut protist Blastocystis (PI: Z. Lhotská)
- Introduction of a suitable experimental in vivo model for the study of gut protist Blastocystis (PI: J. Růžková)
- Introduction of helminth as a model organism into a culture and characterization of the host immune response (PI: O. Hložková)
