How does a cell make decisions? Czech scientists will search for answers thanks to a prestigious European grant.20. 6. 2022 Molecular biologist Alena Zíková from the Institute of Parasitology, Biology Center CAS has received a prestigious European grant - ERC Consolidator. At the beginning of June, the European Research...
Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Lehn will visit České Budějovice13. 6. 2022 The French chemist Jean-Marie Lehn, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987, accepted the invitation of the Director of the Biology Centre CAS (BC CAS), Libor Grubhoffer, and will visit...
EMBO fellowship: Spanish scientist extends the team targeting plant signaling3. 6. 2022 In June 2022, the team of the Laboratory of Molecular Signaling has received new member: Dr. Francisco J. Colina from Spain. For his research in the Czech Republic, Dr. Colina received a...
How to prevent key interactions in nature from deteriorating due to climate change?26. 5. 2022 Using a combination of laboratory experiments and dynamic simulations, we quantified the effects of phenological shifts on Drosophila–parasitoid interactions under the climatic change.
Aquatic fungi – forgotten conservation targets19. 5. 2022 They are always there, dwelling in the water, where they play a key role in food webs, in cycling of nutrients, matter and energy, and water purification. However, as happens with organisms that...
City Nature Challenge 2022 results16. 5. 2022 The seventh year of the worldwide City Nature Challenge has officially ended. Take a look with us at the interesting results that this year has brought.
Third workshop of the Lake Fish Telemetry Group: an international and multidisciplinary collaboration pushing forward the field of fish ecology and behaviour12. 5. 2022 Lake Fish Telemetry Group (LFTG), an initiative that brings together research groups involved in lake fish telemetry in Europe is now in its fifth year. The initiative was established in 2018...
ETN COST Action Training School on Calculating Positions in Acoustic Telemetry12. 5. 2022 European Aquatic Animal Tracking Network COST Action (ETN, CA18102) organizes a training school on the topic of how to calculate positions of aquatic animals tracked by acoustic telemetry. The main...
Hydropeaking affects fish reproduction in rivers12. 4. 2022 The so-called hydropeaking, i.e. discontinuous flow changes in rivers, significantly disrupts fish reproduction. In the current study, scientists from the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Biology...
A Ukrainian scientist comes to the Biology Centre, specializing in tick-borne diseases14. 3. 2022 Parasitologist Viktoriya Levytska comes from war-torn Ukraine to the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Her specialization - tick-borne diseases - corresponds perfectly to the...
