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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬
22 days ago
Last month, we organized a workshop on FUNGAL PHYLOGENOMICS, with 16 participants from Czechia, Hungary, Italy, and Poland. I presented an open lecture about
#Laboulbeniomycetes
(of course 😊🍄🪲). The workshop was funded through our Visegrad Fund grant no. 22420237.
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First article on the immune responses of poppy from the Department of Experimental Plant Biology and other collaborators. We described the response of four poppy cultivars after treatment with a peptide derived from bacterial flagellin:
academic.oup.com/aobpla/artic...
3 months ago
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ManyBirds Project
4 months ago
🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology: “A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.” Led by the
#ManyBirds
Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍 🔗
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia
Neophobia (the aversive response to novelty) varies considerably across species and individuals, and can impact adaptability and survival. This study assesses neophobia in 1400 subjects from 136 bird ...
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003394
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Study by our PhD student, Thinles Chondol, explores how high Himalayan plants (4200–5300 m) sustain photochemical performance across the cold-arid Ladakh Range. Are they stressed or functionally adapted to extreme conditions and seasonal changes?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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New Czech-German grant at the Department of Chemistry to study tick-borne viruses:
prf.jcu.cz/cz/?id=2977
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬
4 months ago
📣New paper alert📣
@michieldegroot.bsky.social
ran laboratory experiments at the University of South Bohemia, which revealed that abiotic factors DO significantly affect parasitism of Harmonia axyridis by Hesperomyces harmoniae. Congratulations! Read more:
doi.org/10.1111/een....
#TeamLaboul
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Petr Nguyen
6 months ago
Another paper on polyommatine blue butterflies just published in
@genomebiolevol.bsky.social
. Blues have high chromosome numbers associated with increased diversification and their karyotypes reveal strategies to maintain genomic integrity amidst profound karyotypic changes
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
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Plant ecology in České Budějovice
4 months ago
Faculty of Science, USB, České Budějovice, Czechia offers a two-year research-oriented Master's study in Ecology.
prf.jcu.cz/ecology
Application deadline: 31 October 2025. Tuition fee: EU citizens: 500 CZK per year (≈ 20 EUR) Non-EU: 12000 CZK per year (≈ 480 EUR)
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Salicylic acid plays a key role in plant immunity. Researchers from FSc USB and IEB CAS revealed that its high concentration suppresses the production of anthocyanins – important secondary metabolites. They uncovered a previously unknown mechanism in plant defense strategies.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...
4 months ago
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Neoadjuvant MBTA immunotherapy prevents cancer recurrence and metastases. One of the authors of the article is our former student Ondřej Uher. Read more:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39809356/
4 months ago
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The book Handbook of Trait-Based Ecology: From Theory to R Tools by Assoc. Prof. Francesco de Bello from the Department of Botany at the FSc USB, is now also being released in Japanese.
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Parasites are expected to speciate by adapting to specific hosts, but examples of it are rare. New research reveals that it is happening in sympatry, when strong Darwinian selection overpowers gene exchange between populations of a fish parasite.
doi.org/10.1093/molb...
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Researching amber revealed two of the oldest undescribed species of fossil animal-pathogenic fungi. This study found that Ophiocordyceps fungi originated around 100-140 million years ago and offers a glimpse into early insect-fungal interactions! New paper:
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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The review by Dr. Adam Bajgar and Dr. Gabriela Krejcova explores antiviral & antibacterial immune memory, highlights key open questions, and presents Drosophila melanogaster as a model for innate immune memory and potential insect vaccination.
elifesciences.org/articles/105...
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Immune cells don’t just fight infection—they manage the body’s energy too. A Trends in Biochemical Sciences spotlight on Nedbalova et al. shows they release adenosine, signaling other tissues to dial down energy use.
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
elifesciences.org/articles/105...
7 months ago
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Congratulations to our student Gabriela Krejčová for receiving a runner-up recognition for her phd thesis by the European Drosophila Society!
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7 months ago
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Recent study by the team of Tomáš Doležal
@tomasdolezal.bsky.social
on the role of adenosin molecule in immune response was highlighted by the Science journal (
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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9 months ago
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New global study of "dark diversity", to which our botanists contributed with a local Czech dataset, was published in Nature.
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10 months ago
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The retreat of glaciers and the creation of new coasts: a team led by a glaciologist from FSc USB published a groundbreaking study in Nature Climate Change
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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New coasts emerging from the retreat of Northern Hemisphere marine-terminating glaciers in the twenty-first century - Nature Climate Change
As marine-terminating glaciers retreat, they reveal new coastlines in many regions. Here the authors use satellite data to quantify these changes for the Northern Hemisphere, finding that between 2000...
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02282-5
10 months ago
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Paper on the diversity of malaria in threatened passerines, by our phd student Dragomir Damnjanović, is featured on the cover page of the International Journal for Parasitology.
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Plant ecology in České Budějovice
12 months ago
Traditional grasslands face biodiversity loss from mismanagement. A 30-year experiment showed that fertilization had stronger negative effects than mowing abandonment, with slower community recovery post-fertilization suggesting that resilience depends on past land use.
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