Václav Pižl was a head of ISB for 18 years19. 7. 2017 At the end of June 2017, Václav Pižl finished the second term of office in the position of the Director of the Institute of Soil Biology. The leading of the Institute he handed over to his...
Strengths of species interactions depend on temperature and predator community composition11. 7. 2017 Trophic and non-trophic species interactions determine energy flow in ecosystems and their strength underlies the stability of food webs. However, their dependence on environmental conditions is...
Martin Kváč was appointed Professor27. 6. 2017 Martin Kváč, a head of the Laboratory of Veterinary and Medical Protistology of the Institute of Parasitology, BC CAS, was appointed Professor. The Document of Appointment was handed over by the...
Libor Grubhoffer was appointed Director of BC26. 6. 2017 Libor Grubhoffer will be a new Director of the largest scientific institution in South Bohemia - Biology Centre (BC) CAS. On Monday, June 26, he was appointed by the president of the Czech Academy...
Biological Specimens in Electron Microscopes19. 6. 2017 From 19 to 23 June 2017, Biology Centre of CAS – Institute of Parasitology and Faculty of Science in collaboration with Czechoslovak Microscopy Society and Czech Bio-Imaging, organizes practical...
34 experts examined challenging repetitive DNA2. 6. 2017 In addition to genes, DNA of every organism possesses also several hunderds, thousands, or more copies of usually short and non-coding regions - so-called repetitive sequences. How many...
Dummy caterpillars reveled the worst places in the world to be the prey19. 5. 2017 It is well known that the tropical regions near the equator have many more species than those near the poles. The publication of a prestigious journal Science addresses the question whether the...
Novel cause for neurological disorders: tRNA modifications in the spotlight10. 5. 2017 The review article in Frontiers of Molecular Neuroscience turns the spotlight on the defects in tRNA modifications as the proximal cause of a range of neurological and neurodegenerative disorders...
An uphill struggle: the break-down of an ant-plant protection mutualism with elevation9. 5. 2017 In the tropics, many plant species benefit from hosting ant “partners” which protect them from herbivores in return for food and shelter.
