RNDr. Ivan Fiala, Ph.D.

Position 1

Job Position: Head of Laboratory - Laboratory of Fish Protistology
Department: Aquatic Parasitology
Workplace: Institute of Parasitology

Position 2

Job Position: Editor
Department: Folia Parasitologica
Workplace: Institute of Parasitology

Contact details

Phone: +420 38777 5424
E-mail: fiala@paru.cas.cz
Room: 109

Others

CV:

RNDr. Ivan Fiala, Ph.D. (*10. 2. 1977, Hodonín, Czech Republic)

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1536-9778

 

Present position

Head of the Laboratory of Fish Protistology,  senior research scientist of the Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.

Lecturer at the Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

 

Education

1998 – BSc. at the Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

2000 – MSc. at the Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

2006 – Ph.D. at the Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

 

Experience

Parasitology: Conducted thorough examination of fish for protozoan parasites and myxosporeans using light and electron microscopy.

Bioinformatics: Performed large number of phylogenetic reconstructions, molecular clock analysis, topology testing, etc. Successfully assembled and annotated genomes and transcriptomes of myxozoans and performed metabarcoding eDNA analysis.

Molecular parasitology: DNA/RNA extraction, PCR, cloning, sequencing, in-situ hybridisation, southern blotting.

 

Specialized workshop training

Workshop on Molecular Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, ME, USA, 2008

 

Awards

Otto Wichterle award of the AS CR for young excellent scientists (2012)

 

Oral presentations at international conferences (last five years)

• Fiala I., Lisnerová M., Žánová V., Koláčná K. Environmental DNA-based monitoring of aquatic parasites: a case study of Myxozoa and Microsporidia. 21^th International conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish (EAFP), Aberdeen, UK, (2021).

• Lisnerová M., Holzer A.S., Fiala I. Environmental DNA metabarcoding assay for detection of freshwater myxozoan communities. 20 ^th International conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish (EAFP), held virtually (2021).

• Fiala I., Lisnerová M., Baiko D., Blabolil P., Lövy A., Holzer A.S. Hidden diversity of Paramyxidium (Myxozoa) species in European eel (Anguilla anguilla). 19^th International conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish, Porto, Portugal (2019).

 

Research visits and field trips

• 2014 – J.L. Fryer Salmon Disease Laboratory, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA.

• 2007 – Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Bologna, Italy

• 2004 – Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos, Peru (field trip)

• 2004 – El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Chetumal, Mexico (field trip)

• 2003 and 2004 – University of Stirling, UK

• 2002 – Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

 

Professional responsibilities

- Head of the Laboratory of fish protistology (since 2022),

-Associate Editor for Protists & Molecular Phylogenetics, Folia Parasitologica (since 2012)

- Expert advisor for genetically modified organisms (GMO) at BC AS CR (since 2011)

- Principal organizer of local protozoological conference – 36th Jirovec Protozoological Days, 2006

 

Research support (as principal investigator)

• Complex characterisation of myxozoan mitochondria: Genome, proteome and ultrastructure approach (Czech Science Foundation, Standard Project), (2021-2023)

•  Large scale fish and water environment screening to assess the biodiversity of the Myxozoa: A metagenomic approach (Czech Science Foundation, Standard Project), (2016-2018); evaluated as excellent

•  Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial genome of Myxozoa and Polypodium hydriforme (Czech Science Foundation, Post-doctoral Project), (2009-2011); evaluated as excellent

•  Phylogenetic relationships within Myxosporea inferred from combined analysis of ribosomal and protein gene sequences: evolution of important fish parasites (Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic), (2007-2009); evaluated as excellent

•  The phylogeny of Myxozoa inferred from LSU rDNA data (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic), (2004)

 

Membership in professional organisations

Czech Society of Parasitology, Section of Protozoology, Czech Republic: Member (2000-present).

European Association of Fish Pathologists: Member (2004-present).

Tree of Life Web Project, Contributor (Fiala, Ivan. 2008. Myxozoa. Version 10 July 2000).

 

Teaching

Lecturer of the course Biology of Parasitic Protists; Marine Parasitology and co-lecturer of practical course Field Parasitology and Current Trends in Parasitology at Uni. of South Bohemia, Faculty of Sciences;

Supervision of 11 undergraduate students and 4 PhD students, all of them successfully defended at Uni. of South Bohemia, Faculty of Sciences. Currently supervisor of four master students.

 

Publishing

Ivan Fiala is the author and co-author of 69 scientific papers that have been cited 1863 times, his h-index is 23. He published an article on the phylogeny of Myxozoa in the International Journal for Parasitology in 2006, which has been cited more than 400 times.

Teaching

Biology of Parasitic Protists
Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia

Marine Parasitology
Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia
Description:

Field course in Vevang, Norway