prof. RNDr. Julius Lukeš, CSc.
Job Position: Director , Head of Laboratory - Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Protists
Phone:
+420 387775416
E-mail:
jula@paru.cas.cz
Web:
www.paru.cas.cz
Room:
002 / PARU II
Management and Leadership of the Institute of Parasitology
Professional Experience
- 1991–present Research Scientist, Institute of Parasitology, České Budějovice
- 1992–2012 Member of the Scientific Board of the Institute of Parasitology
- 1993 Postdoctoral Fellow, E.C.Slater Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 1995–present Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Institute of Parasitology
- 1994–1997 Assistant, Faculty of Biology, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice
- 1997–1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside
- 1998–1999 Visiting Scientist, Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles
- 2003–2012 Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology, University of South Bohemia
- 2006–present Professor, Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia
- 2007–2012 Member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Sciences
- 2008–present Member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Agriculture
- 2008–2012 Head of the Scientific Board of the Institute of Parasitology
- 2012–present Director of the Institute of Parasitology
- 2012–present Committee member of the International Society of Protistologists
Honors and Awards
- 1993 EMBO Fellowship
- 1995 Fulbright Travel Grant
- 1997 Young Scientist Award of the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- 2000–2005 European Councillor of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology
- 2006–2008 President of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology
- 2002 Prize of the Czech Academy of Sciences for outstanding young researchers
- 2003–2009 President of the Czech Society of Protozoology
- 2004–present Member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic
- 2007 Prize of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- 2007–2009 Vice-president of the International Society of Protistologists
- 2009–2011 Associate of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
- 2011 Prize of the Minister of Education for Excellence in Research
- 2012–2017 Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
- 2013–present Member of the Faculty of 1000
- 2013 Medal from the mayor for merits in research and education
- 2014–present Fellow of the American Academy for Microbiology
- 2015–present Fellow of the European Academy of Microbiology
- 2016–present Member of the Comenius Academic Club
- 2018–present Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Invited Lectures
- University of Hannover, Germany, 1991
- University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1993, 1994, 2003
- University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, 1995
- State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA, 1995
- National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA, 1995
- Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA, 1997
- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, 1997, 2000
- University of California, Los Angeles, USA, 1998, 1999, 2002
- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 1999, 2006, 2007, 2010
- School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, 2000
- Institute of Cytology, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2001
- De Duve Institute of Pathology, Brussels, Belgium, 2002, 2006
- Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany, 2002
- Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2003, 2008
- CIRAD, Montpellier, France, 2003
- Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2014
- Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 2004
- University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland, 2004
- Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA, 2004
- New York University, New York, USA, 2004
- University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 2004
- University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 2005
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Vancouver, Canada, 2005, 2006
- Foundation Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2005
- University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2005
- Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, USA, 2006, 2010
- Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, 2006
- South Medical University, Guangzhou, China, 2006
- Kuvin Centre, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 2006
- Technion-Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 2006
- University of California, Riverside, USA, 2007
- Philipps University, Marburg, Germany, 2008
- University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K., 2008
- Newcastle University, U.K., 2008
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Quebec, Canada, 2008
- University of Cambridge, U.K., 2008
- Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, 2008
- Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 2008
- University of Bern, Switzerland, 2008
- University of California, Irvine, USA, 2009
- Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, 2009
- University of Cardiff, Cardiff, U.K., 2010
- University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil, 2010
- Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, 2010
- Seattle Biomed, Seattle, USA, 2010, 2012
- Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, 2011, 2013
- King Abdulah University, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 2011
- Molecular Biology Laboratory, Cambridge, U.K., 2011
- University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011, 2012
- University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 2011
- Biodiversity Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2012
- University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K., 2012
- University of California, Riverside, USA, 2012
- Philipps University, Marburg, Germany, 2012
- National Institutes of Alergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, USA, 2012
- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, 2012
- University of Exeter, Exeter, U.K., 2012
- Chinese Agricultural University, Beijing, China, 2012
- Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, France, 2013
- Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, 2013
- Clemson University, Clemson, USA, 2013
- University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA, 2013
- Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, 2013
- University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, U.K., 2014
- Institute of Tropical Medicine, Havana, Cuba, 2014
- East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, 2014
- Beckman Centre, University of California, Irvine, USA, 2015
- University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, 2015
- Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2015
- University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., 2015
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, USA, 2015
- Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, 2015
- Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2016
- University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K., 2016
- University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2016
- University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany, 2016
- Duke University, Durham, USA, 2017
- Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, 2017
- State University of New York, Buffalo, USA, 2017
- Université de la Reunion, St. Denis, France, 2017
- Gdansk University, Gdansk, Poland, 2017
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, U.K., 2017
- École Normal Superieure, Lyon, France, 2017
- Ahmed Ben Bella University, Oran, Algeria, 2017
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Canada, 2008-2018
- Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 2019
- École nationale vétérinaire d’Alfort, Paris, France, 2019
Editorial Board
- 2004–2006 Protistology
- 2005–2011 Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
- 2004–2008 Kinetoplastid Biology and Diseases
- 2009–present The Open Parasitology Journal
- 2010–2012 International Journal for Parasitology
- 2011–2012 Folia Parasitologica (Associate Editor)
- 2015 PeerJ
- 2017 Protist
- 2018 PLoS Pathogens
- 2019 Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology (Associate Editor)
Principal organizer of conferences
- XIII. biannual meeting of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology – August 2000 (120 participants)
- Trypanosomiasis and Leishmaniasis seminar of the British Society of Parasitology – August 2004 (140 participants)
- Euroleish Meeting – September 2004 (30 participants)
- Mitochondrion of trypanosomes enters the post-proteomic era – September 2009 (70 participants)
- Integrated Microbial Biodiversity workshop, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research – June 2014 (75 participants)
- Trypanosomiasis and Leishmaniasis seminar of the British Society of Parasitology – September 2016 (270 participants)
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Parasites
Faculty of Science University of South Bohemia
Biology of Parasitic Protozoa
Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia
Principles of Molecular Biology
Faculty of Science University of South Bohemia
