Reichard Lab

Ongoing 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

• Participating Researcher
• 2014-2017 Ageing in annual fish: integrating demography, physiology and behavior.
  CNPq: Science Without Borders Program (Brasil), 3 years, Visiting Professor.
• 2012-2018 ECIP - European Centre of Ichthyoparasitology.
  Czech Science Foundation, 7 years, Member of research team.

Completed projects

• Principal Investigator/Research Fellow
• 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
• 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).