2025
June (planned)
- Aneta Perglerová has been accepted and is going to participate at the unique 7-week course for advanced doctoral students and postdocs at the University of Chicago, Woods Hole, USA: "Biology of Parasitism: Modern Approaches" (12.5.-30.7.2025)
May (planned)
- Aneta Perglerová has been accepted and is going to participate at the EMBL Advanced Practical Course in Heidelberg, Germany:"Analysis and integration of transcriptome and proteome data" (3.5.-9.5.2025)
April
- Our research group has started subsidiary economic activity in the field of parasitology (providing Giardia intestinalis cysts)
- Aneta Perglerová has been awarded with GAUK (2025-2027): Uncovering metronidazole resistance mechanisms in the parasitic protist Giardia intestinalis: Comparative proteomics and reverse genetics
- Pavla Tůmová is to be awarded the "Purkyňova cena" from Czech journal Živa (28.4.2025) for the best publication of the year 2024: "Česká stopa ve výzkumu lamblií, pozoruhodných střevních parazitů"
- Active participation at the conference ESCMID Global (Conggress of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases), VIenna, Austria (11.4.-15.4.2025):
- Pavla Tůmová: Chair of the section " Intestinal parasites uncovered:epidemiology and treatment success" and invited lecture "Nitroimidazole refractory Giardia intestinalis infection"
March
- Vlasta Korenková participated at the EMBL Advanced Practical Course in Heidelberg, Germany: "Quantitative proteomics:strategies and tools to probe the biology" (9.3.-14.3.2025)
February
- Active participation at the International GIARDIA & CRYPTOSPORIDIUM conference in Melbourne, Australia (23.2 .- 26.2.2025):
- Filip Weisz: co-Chair of the section "Genomics, Epidemiology and Host-Pathogen Interactions" and the author of the lecture: "Comparative genomics of Giardia intestinalis assemblage B"
- Aneta Perglerová: co-Chair of the section "Treatment, Infection management and drug resistance" and the author of the lecture:"Molecular epidemiology of Giardia intestinalis: Insights into metronidazole treatment failure in the Czech Republic"
- Vlasta Korenková: author of the lecture"Comprehensive analysis of flavohemoprotein copy number variation in Giardia intestinalis: exploring links to metronidazole resistance"