Topics covered

 Support is primarily provided to fourteen teams that work on the following problems:

• Modulation of nuclear receptor function in cell signaling and organogenesis (team leader: M. Asahina, e-mail: masako@paru.cas.cz)
• Regulation of telomeric length in insects (team leader: R. Čapková-Frydrychová, e-mail: Radmila.Frydrychova@seznam.cz)
• Interplay between cell signaling and metabolism in Drosophila melanogaster (team leader: A. Krejčí, e-mail: abruce@prf.jcu.cz)
• Regulation of energy homeostasis in D. melanogaster (team leader: M. Žurovec, e-mail: zurovec@entu.cas.cz)
• Flour beetle Tribolium castaneum as a model for development and reproduction (team leader: M. Jindra, e-mail: jindra@entu.cas.cz)
• Protein-protein interactions that drive circadian rhythms (team leader: D. Doležel, e-mail: dolezel@entu.cas.cz)
• Seasonal timing of diapause in insects (team leader: V. Košťál, email: kostal@entu.cas.cz)
• The linden bug, Pyrrhocoris apterus - new model for circadian and photoperiodic studies (I. Šauman, email: sauman@entu.cas.cz)
• Trypanosoma brucei as a suitable model for mitochondrial research (team leader: J. Lukeš, e-mail: jula@paru.cas.cz
• Identification, validation and characterization of drug targets in medically important parasites Leishmania and Trypanosoma (team leader: A. Zíková, e-mail: azikova@paru.cas.cz)
• Chromera velia as a model to study evolution of parasitism in Apicomplexa (team leader: M. Oborník, e-mail: obornik@paru.cas.cz)
• The tick Ixodes ricinus as a model for basic and applied biomedical research (team leader: M. Kotsyfakis, e-mail: kotsyfakis@paru.cas.cz)
• Sphaerospora as a model for studying parasite transmission in aquatic systems (team leader: A.S. Holzer, e-mail: astrid.holzer@paru.cas.cz)
• Exploitation of Arabidopsis thaliana model to improve crop properties (team leader: J. Matoušek, e-mail: jmat@umbr.cas.cz)