Ongoing projects
- Principal Investigator
- 2019-2021 The sources of intra-population heterogeneity in senescence.
Czech Science Foundation, 3 years, Principal Investigator
- 2019-2021 Individual variability and resilience of interspecific relationships in freshwaters: insights from fish-mussel interactions.
Czech Science Foundation, 3 years, Co-Investigator
- 2018-2020 A novel system to understand brood parasitism: the cuckoo catfish parasitizing African cichlids.
Czech Science Foundation, 3 years, Principal Investigator
- Participating Researcher
- 2019-2021 Driver mutations in cancer genome of Nothobranchius furzeri: from tumor biology to concept of experimental model of spontaneous carcinogenesis.
Czech Science Foundation, 3 years, Member of research team.
- 2018-2020 Embryo and environment: annual fishes as a unique model to study embryo ecology.
Czech Science Foundation, 3 years, Member of research team.
Completed projects
- Principal Investigator
- 2016-2018 Ageing in the wild: from demography to gene expression.
Czech Science Foundation, 3 years, Principal Investigator
- 2013-2017 The effects of non-native species on host-parasite relationships.
Czech Science Foundation, 5 years, Principal Investigator
- 2011-2015 The evolution and life-history consequences of rapid ageing.
Czech Science Foundation, 5 years, Principal Investigator
- 2009-2013 Personalities, male mating tactics and the role of females in sexual selection: studies on fish model systems.
Czech Science Foundation, 5 years, Principal Investigator
- 2009-2012 Demography, metapopulation dynamics and ecology of Nothobranchius fishes in Mozambique.
Czech Science Foundation, 4 years, Principal Investigator
- 2008-2010 The European bitterling - endangered or non-native species in Central Europe?
Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 3 years, Principal Investigator.
- 2008 Reproductive isolating mechanisms in Nothobranchius annual fishes - the roles of mate choice, ecological divergence and vicariance
Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, 7 months, Principal Investigator.
- 2006-2008 Reproductive isolating mechanisms in Nothobranchius fishes (Aplocheilidae)
Czech Science Foundation, 3 years, Principal Investigator.
- 2006-2007 Phenotypic correlates of lifetime reproductive success in the bitterling fish
British Ecological Society (Early Carrier Project Grant), 12 months, Principal Investigator.
- 2005-2007 The impact of mating tactics on individual reproductive success and population parameters in the European bitterling: behavioural and genetic approach
Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 3 years, Principal Investigator.
- 2003 Sperm competition in bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus)
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 9 months, Principal Investigator.
- 2003 Key for identification of Chinese bitterlings (Acheilognathinae,Teleostei)
Chinese Academy of Sciences - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Exchange Programme, Visiting Scientist (hosted by Prof. Zhang Chunguang, Institute of Zoology, Beijing).
- 2003 Sperm quality in a freshwater cyprinid fish, the European bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus, Cyprinidae)
Royal Society - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Exchange Programme, Visiting Scientist (hosted by Prof. W.V. Holt, Institute of Zoology ZSL, UK).
- 2002-2003 Alternative mating tactics in the European bitterling
NATO/Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellowship (United Kingdom), 12 months, Research Fellow (hosted by Dr C. Smith, QMC, University of London).
- 2001 Field experiments in fish ecology and their application in education
FRVS, Czech Ministry of Education, 12 months, Principal Investigator.
- Participating Researcher
- 2014-2017 Ageing in annual fish: integrating demography, physiology and behavior.
CNPq: Science Without Borders Program (Brazil), 3 years, Visiting Professor.
- 2012-2018 ECIP - European Centre of Ichthyoparasitology.
Czech Science Foundation, 7 years, Member of research team.
- 2012-2015 Integration of experimental and population biology using novel methods in interdisciplinary research – a route to excellence with young scientists.
European Social Fund and Czech Ministry of Education, 2.5 years, Mentor.
- 2007-2010 Host specialization and host-race formation in the European bitterling
Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom), 3 years. (PI: Dr C. Smith, University of Leicester, UK).
- 2006-2008 The role of MHC in sexual selection - observational and experimental study in three model vertebrate species
Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 3 years, responsible for experiments on fish (PI: Dr J. Bryja, IVB ASCR).
- 2004-2008 Species diversity and ecology of selected vertebrates in West Africa
Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic), 5 years, responsible for the fish biology part of the project (PI: Dr P. Koubek, IVB ASCR).
- 2003-2005 Adaptation and coevolution in an unusual symbiosis
Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom), 24 months. (PI: Dr C. Smith, University of Leicester, UK).