Congratulations to Zuzana Skvorova on receiving the Bohuslav Fott Award for the best 2022 student publication. In her paper, Zuzana showed that associations between lichen symbiotic partners are driven by partners preferenes for soil chemistry and climate. 1url.cz/zKbTe

#Paper_Alert! Did you ever wonder why there is such a large morphological diversity in #shell-bearing #amoebae and what is the #function of shells anyway? It was long assumed shells are for #defense, well let me try to convince you that their purpose is #attack! A thread🧵👇

We are happy to share our review paper summarizing the diversity of green algal lichen symbionts and their free-living occurrences: botany.natur.cuni.cz/skaloud/soubor…

We just described a novel chrysophyte genus Globulochrysis. It produces teardrop-shaped zoospores and big spherical cell packets🙃. botany.natur.cuni.cz/skaloud/soubor…

Very happy to be involved in this very interesting study on lichen symbiosis.

Huge congratulations to Veronika Kantnerová for winning the Best Student Presentation Award at the #ICOP2025 Congress in Seoul, Korea!❤️🏆I’m incredibly proud of her success. You can check out her award-winning poster here if you're curious: botany.natur.cuni.cz/skaloud/soubor…

In this paper, we show that photobiont diversity increases as lichens age. Interestingly, as the thallus grows, autosporine algae become more prevalent at the expense of zoosporine algae, likely because the latter play a key role in lichen establishment. 1url.cz/@Proto

Happy to share our new paper in Journal of Phycology on Synurales from Florida - adding a fresh piece to the puzzle of silica-ornamented algal diversity and evolution! One of the newly described species even made it to the cover of the issue.😊 1url.cz/@Florida