Out of the heavy sea ice of the Weddell Sea, we have spent the past week in open water and loose sea ice in the Powell Basin. So far, we have conducted a short bathymetric survey, deployed a lander, completed an oceanographic transect and collected geological and biological samples.
Department of Parasitology invites you to the student seminars Kristýna Brožová (BSc. student) Studium prevalence Giardia intestinalis . (in Czech) Jan Kamiš (BSc. student) Fylogenetické vztahy kokcidií parazitujících u myšice temnopásé ( Apodemus agrarius ) na základě sekvencí COX3 genu. (in Czech) Jiří Kyslík (Ph.D. student) Expression profiling of minicollagens in...
During the last week, we continued our northward travel to the Erebus and Terror Gulf completing two more stations. Another highlight were curtesy visits between the Polarstern and the Argentinian vessel Almirante Irizar.
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.
