Current and Past grants (last 10 years)

2024-2026 (AV ČR/MP)- Dr. Ryan O. M. Rego - PI : Functional characterization of salivary proteins expressed by the soft tick Ornithodoros moubata and their role in pathogenic spirochete transmission

2023-2025  (GAČR) - Dr. Ryan O. M. Rego - Co-PI : Probing specific interactions of well-defined glycosaminoglycans with European Lyme disease borrelia adhesins at atomic resolution

2023-2024 (AV ČR/MPP) - Dr. Ryan O. M. Rego - PI : Characterizations of synthetic glycosaminoglycans with European Lyme Disease borrelia adhesins

2023-2026 (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports) - Dr. Natallia Rudenko - Co-PI : Ticks and tick-borne pathogens: new risks in the context of ongoing environmental changes

2022-2025  (GAČR) - Dr. Ryan O. M. Rego - Co-PI : Structural and bio-nanomechanical view at bacterial dissemination in the host

2022-2024 (GAČR) -  Prof. Libor Grubhoffer - PI : Takes two to Tango: Interactions between the C protein of TBEV and the viral RNA genome

2019-2022 - (Ministry of Health)  - Dr. Natallia Rudenko - Co-PI : Importance of non-spiral forms of Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes in the pathogenesis of Lyme borreliosis and post-Lyme disease syndrome

2020-2022  (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports) - Dr. Ryan O. M. Rego - PI : NMR of European borrelia surface proteins

2019-2022  (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports) - Prof. Libor Grubhoffer - PI : Flavivirus-host interactions on the transcriptional and translational level

2019-2021  (Ministry of Agriculture) - Prof. Libor Grubhoffer - PI : Changes in distribution of ticks and tick transmitted diseases: new and neglected risks for domestic animals, livestock and humans.

2019-2021  (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports) - Dr. Ryan O. M. Rego - Pl : Role of adhesins in formation of Borrelia burgdorferi biofilm-like structures

2018-2021 (GAČR) -  Prof. Libor Grubhoffer - PI  :  Interactions of flaviviral genomic and subgenomic RNA with host and viral proteins

2018-2021  (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports) - Prof. Libor Grubhoffer - PI : Development of technologies for early detection of tick borne encephalitis, based on changes in gene expression and protein production in infected antigen-presenting cells

2017-2019  (GAČR) - Dr. Ryan O. M. Rego - PI :  Delineating the role of Borrelia afzelii genes required for dissemination within an infected tick during feeding

2013-2018 (FP7-HEALTH) - Prof. Libor Grubhoffer, Dr. Ryan O.M. Rego (Co-PI): Anti-tick Vaccines to Prevent Tick-borne Diseases in Europe (ANTIDOTE)        https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/602272

2015-2017 (GAČR) -  Prof. Libor Grubhoffer - PI  :  Novel functions of viral and cellular proteins in Tick-borne encephalitis virus infection

2014-2016 (GAJU, University of South Bohemia) - Dr. Martin Strnad - PI - Genetic manipulation of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia afzelii: Characterization of genes important for persistence/migration of the bacterium within the tick vector