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Our PhD student Marek Valt working with the new JEM-F200 TEM during Transmission Electron Microscopy in Life Sciences course. Great piece of technology! 🔬 Thanks to Czech Academy of Sciences Institute of Molecular Genetics Leica Microsystems JEOL EUROPE

Anaeramoeba are really amazing protists. In the latest paper "Massive intein content in Anaeramoeba reveals aspects of intein mobility in eukaryotes" with Ivan Cepicka as coauthor you can read about the most intein-rich eukaryotic genomes so far. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Novel Metopid "Castula specialis" was described with help of our lab members Ondrej Pomahac Daniel MS Ivan Cepicka Congratulations guys! Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/jeu.13…

New case of alternative genetic code discovered! UAR reassignment in Palmarella but a standard code in its closest relatives. Our new paper with single cell #transcriptomics in APM #ciliates just out! Read at sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #protists #phylogenomics #geneticcode #anaerobe

#Protists double animal's biomass on earth. Despite their importance, our knowledge of these organisms is greatly hampered by the limited number of stable laboratory cultures. Read our call to action "The protist cultural renaissance" in Trends in Microbiology sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Happy to see some of our work in the list of the most interesting newly described #microbial #eukaryotes of 2023! Thanks Lukáš V.F Novák for mentioning many of our beloved #anaerobic #protists. Let´s see what new discoveries the upcoming year will bring!

Check out our new paper by Kotyk et al. about peculiar endobiotic ciliates from the hindgut of wood-eating cockroaches: Clevelandellidae

Check out some stunning Czech ciliates in our new paper about a scuticociliate species Loxocephalus luridus. Finally adding some molecular data for the type genus of the problematic order Loxocephalida! doi.org/10.1111/jeu.13…

53rd Jírovec´s Protozoological Days just started! Great opening symposium about viruses in protistology sponsored by ISOP including talks by Nick Irwin, Christopher Bellas, Pavel Plevka, Matthias Fischer, and Anna Koslová. Stay tuned! #Protodays #Protodays2024

Finishing the first day of #Protodays with a poster session including posters of Aneta and Martina from our lab! Thanks to the organizers for making a great conference👏👏👏 #Protodays2024

Protodays2024 are almost over and as every year full of great talks and posters! Happy to add some input from our research including talks by @polakova_kate, M , Marek Valt and Matyáš Soviš #Protodays #Protodays2024

Happy to share a new taxonomic paper by Ondrej Pomahac Daniel MS Ivan Cepicka !

Vladimir Hampl and I review the latest on the origin of mitochondria and mitochondrion-related organelles: link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

A new paper out!