prof. RNDr. Tomáš Scholz, CSc.

Position 1 Job Position: Head of Laboratory - Laboratory of Helminthology
Department: Evolutionary Parasitology
Workplace: Institute of Parasitology

Position 2 Job Position: Editor-in-Chief
Department: Folia Parasitologica
Workplace: Institute of Parasitology

Position 3 Job Position: Vice-chairman
Department: BC Board
Workplace: Biology Centre CAS

Contact details Phone: +420 387775431
E-mail: tscholz@paru.cas.cz
Room: 207

Others Description:

Research interests

Helminth parasites of fish
Taxonomy and biology (life cycles) of fish tapeworms (Cestoda)
Taxonomy and biology of trematodes (Digenea)
Helminths parasitizing fish in the Neotropics
Fish-borne human parasitoses (small fluke intestinal infections)

Links

Folia Parasitologica

CV: Education (degrees, dates, universities) MSc 1984 Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague (systematic zoology and ecology) PhD 1989 Institute of Parasitology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice (parasitology) Associate Prof. 1999 Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice (parasitology) Professor 2003 Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague (parasitology) Career/Employment (employers, positions and dates) Institute of Parasitology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, České Budějovice PhD student 1985-1988 Research Assistant 1988-1989 Research Scientist 1989-1998 Senior Scientist 1999-until now Director 2002-until now Centre for Investigation and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnical Institute (CINVESTAV-IPN), Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico Visiting Professor 1993-1994 1998-1999 (catedra patrimonial) Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice Assistant Professor 1995-1999 Associate Professor 1999-2003 Professor 2003-until now Specialization (specify) (i) main field Parasitology: helminthology – systematics, biology and phylogeny of helminth parasites of fish (ii) other fields: Fish-borne helminthoses; diversity of fish helminth in the Neotropics (iii) current research interest: Systematics and phylogeny of fish cestodes and trematodes Honours, Awards, Fellowships, Membership of Professional Societies Medal of the Slovak Society for Parasitology (2003)

Teaching Biology of helminths
Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia

Field parasitology
Faculty of Science University of South Bohemia

Total found: 378 records
de Chambrier A., Kuchta R., Scholz T. (2024) Three new species of Ophiotaenia La Rue, 1911 (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae) from dipsadine snakes (Squamata: Colubridae) in Ecuador Folia Parasitologica 71: 020. DOI: 10.14411/fp.2024.020
de Chambrier A., Scholz T. (2024) A new species of Australotaenia (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae) from a hylid frog in Australia Zootaxa 5458: 420–426. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.3.6
Hernandez Orts J., Scholz T. (2024) Diphyllobothriidae (Broad Tapeworms) In: G.W. Smithers (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Food Safety, Second edition. Elsevier, Academic Press, Amsterdam: pp. 582–589. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-822521-9.00043-5
Kuchta R., Phillips A.J., Scholz T. (2024) Diversity and biology of Spirometra tapeworms (Cestoda: Diphyllobothriidea), zoonotic parasites of wildlife: A review International Journal for Parasitology-Parasites and Wildlife 24: 100947. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2024.100947
Marick J., Choudhury A., Scholz T., Biswas R., Ash A. (2024) Taxonomic summary of Schyzocotyle (Cestoda: Bothriocephalidae) with a redescription of Schyzocotyle nayarensis (Malhotra, 1983) from India Journal of Helminthology 98: e73. DOI: 10.1017/S0022149X24000518
Scholz T. (2024) Gaps in parasitological research in the molecular era Trends in Parasitology 40: 283-291. DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2024.02.005
Scholz T., Davidovich N. (2024) Amirthalingamia macracantha. Parasite of the Month. Trends in Parasitology 40: 429–430. DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2024.01.008
Scholz T., de Chambrier A., Brabec J., Knudsen R., Blasco-Costa I. (2024) Redescription of Proteocephalus fallax La Rue, 1911 (Cestoda) and a list of proteocephalid tapeworms of whitefish (Coregonus spp.) Folia Parasitologica 71: 019. DOI: 10.14411/fp.2024.019
Scholz T., de Chambrier A., Kyslík J. (2024) Tapeworms (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae) of the gars (Lepisosteidae), living fossils in America, including proposal of a new genus and a new species Parasitology International 102: 102916. DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2024.102916
Scholz T., Kuchta R. (2024) Proteocephalidae La Rue, 1911 (Family). In: S. L. Gardner and S. A. Gardner (Eds.), Concepts in Animal Parasitology. Zea Books, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States Chapter 20: 276–282. DOI: 10.32873/unl.dc.ciap070
Scholz T., Kuchta R. (2024) Diphyllobothriidea Kuchta et al., 2008 (Order): The Broad Tapeworms In: S. L. Gardner and S. A. Gardner (Eds.), Concepts in Animal Parasitology. Zea Books, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States Chapter 22: 289–298. DOI: 10.32873/unl.dc.ciap022
Scholz T., Kuchta R., Barčák D., Cech G., Oros M. (2024) Small intestinal flukes of the genus Metagonimus (Digenea: Heterophyidae) in Europe and the Middle East: A review of parasites with zoonotic potential Parasite 31: 20. DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2024016
Adámek Z., Palíková M. , Scholz T. (2023) Unusual sites of infection of Ligula intestinalis (Cestoda) plerocercoids in an intermediate host, freshwater bream Abramis brama Journal of Fish Diseases 46: 791–793. DOI: 10.1111/jfd.13787
Brabec J., Rochat E.C., Knudsen R., Scholz T., Blasco-Costa I. (2023) Mining various genomic resources to resolve old alpha-taxonomy questions: a test of the species hypothesis of the Proteocephalus longicollis species complex (Cestoda: Platyhelminthes) from salmonid fishes (Cestoda: Platyhelminthes). International Journal for Parasitology 53: 197–205. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2022.12.005
Davidovich N., Yasur-Landau D., Behar A., Pretto T., Scholz T. (2023) Invasive parasites and global change: evidence of recent rapid spillover of a potential fish pathogen with complex, three-host life cycle Heliyon 9: e18831. DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18831
de Chambrier A., Kudlai O., McAllister C.T., Scholz T. (2023) Discovering high species diversity of Ophiotaenia tapeworms (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae) of watersnakes (Colubridae) in North America International Journal for Parasitology-Parasites and Wildlife 22: 255–275. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2023.10.006
Fan C.-K., Barčák D., Scholz T., Sonko P., Orosová M., Su K.-E., Chang C.-C., Lee Y.-J., Kuchta R., Oros M. (2023) Broad tapeworms in Taiwan: A review of cases and molecular evidence of Dibothriocephalus nihonkaiensis Food and Waterborne Parasitology 33: e00213. DOI: 10.1016/j.fawpar.2023.e00213
Filipović Marijić V., Subirana M.A., Schaumlöffel D., Barišić J., Gontier E., Krasnići N., Mijošek T., Hernandez Orts J., Scholz T., Erk M. (2023) First insight in element localisation in different body parts of the acanthocephalan Dentitruncus truttae using TEM and NanoSIMS Science of the Total Environment 887: 164010. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164010
Marick J., Brabec J., Choudhury A., Scholz T., Ash A. (2023) The evolution of an ancient tapeworm lineage in its catfish hosts: vicariance, dispersal and diversification in Gangesiinae (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 198: 509–533. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac098
Nazarizadeh M., Nováková M., Loot G., Gabagambi N., Fatemizahed F., Osano O., Presswell B., Poulin R., Vitál Z., Scholz T., Halajian A., Trucchi E., Kočová P., Štefka J. (2023) Historical dispersal and host-switching formed the evolutionary history of a globally distributed multi-host parasite – The Ligula intestinalis species complex Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 180: 107677. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107677