Open new position16. 1. 2020 Principal investigator at the Institute of Parasitology investigating single- or multicellular parasites and/or related organisms
Chinese Paddlefish confirmed as extinct6. 1. 2020 A new study by researchers from the China, Czech Republic and UK, concluded that the Chinese Paddlefish can now be confirmed as extinct. With its recorded length of up 7 m, the Chinese paddlefish...
Wishes to New Year in genetic code30. 12. 2019 We have already wished you in Czech and English language, however, we would like to add few words now also in genetic code as it is the field of our research, too.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year22. 12. 2019 Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences wishes you Merry Christmas and in the new year 2020 we wish you good health, happiness, success and a lot of inspiration in both professional and...
Phage-centric ecological interactions in aquatic ecosystems revealed through ultra-deep metagenomics9. 12. 2019 In aquatic microbial communities, the most abundant players, the viruses, remain unexplored. Some of them can infect and kill bacteria, those viruses are named bacteriophages or simply phages....
Video: 40 years of soil research2. 12. 2019 For 40 years (1979 - 2019), we have been engaged in soil research. The Institute of Soil Biology is part of the Biology Centre, one of the major institutions of the Czech Academy of Sciences . We...
Microbial food webs in hypertrophic fishponds: omnivorous ciliate taxa are major protistan bacterivores 22. 11. 2019 Small bacterivorous protists play a fundamental role in aquatic food webs and their taxonomic classification and ecological traits currently belong to core topics in aquatic microbial ecology....
Evolution in action: habitat transition from sediment to the pelagial leads to genome streamlining in Methylophilaceae 15. 11. 2019 Freshwater lakes are numerically dominated by very small microbes that appear perfectly adapted to nutrient poor (oligotrophic) conditions because of efficient resource exploitation in nM...
Experimental catchment – a unique research area will enable to study processes in the landscape18. 10. 2019 Scientists from the SoWa Research Infrastructure of the The Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences ceremonially opened a unique research area near the village Vintířov in the Sokolov...
Czech scientists helped to “read” the genome of pea4. 9. 2019 International team including the scientist from Czech Republic has assembled – after six years of research – the first complete genome of field pea. The results has been published on 2nd September...