After husband left us for a young colleague out of nowhere, despite living a horrible nightmare, I managed to write ERC proposal on a new project in 2 months while being the primary carer of 6yo and 4yo. Today, I am the best 😊 (even if the proposal is not funded) Academic Mom, PhD

DEBiLab at Oocyte Day in Prague :)

Giving talk at Ostrava University with a great view!

Super-excited to be invited to this amazing event with other non-model lovers! Looking at the line up of speakers, our favourite African mole-rats will be well represented :)

Team DEBiLab on the way to #BIOMORA2024 conference in Bonn

7 more hours on train and we reach #BIOMORA24

Complete representation of DEBiLab at #Biomora2024

Team DEBiLab at the Bonn Christmas market to finish #Biomora2024 conference with style

Totally moved by THE CAKE and the party my team made for me, led by Eva Kopecká. I have the best team ever ❤️❤️❤️

Our colleagues from Zoology department are looking for a PhD student working on behavioral ecology of African mole-rats! #PhDposition

PhD positions in our team available from 9/2025! For more information please contact us. Science @ MED MUNI V4SDB

A colleague from the department is looking for a Ph.D. student in bee biology! #PhDposition

Lab is growing! Over the last 6 months, we welcomed two new PhD students in our lab - Triet from Vietnam who joined us last summer and Ipathi from India who joined last week. Welcome to Czech Republic! :)

Bibiana and Mariana, two interns within Czech-Brazilian UNIGOU exchange programme, spending Brazilian summer in Czech winter... to get molecular biology experience in our lab :)

Third place in the faculty image competition for our Eva Eva Kopecká with the image of a rodent ovary full of follicles! A perfect cover for your next Valentine's card, just saying :)

DEBiLab is having a great time in Edinburgh on EMBO Beyond the standard meeting on non-model vertebrates

We're hiring a postdoc!👀 Join us to explore the amazing world of (deep-sea) fish vision! We're looking for a curious mind to work with histology, FISH, and even crispr! Thks for sharing! Apply by 14 July 2025. #PostdocJobs #DeepSea #FishVision #Evolution fishevo.com/open-postdocto…

The last talk before the coffee break will be given by Lenka Gahurová Lenka Gahurova from the University of South Bohemia Jihočeská univerzita, with a fascinating talk about Long-Term Female Fertility of African Mole-Rats  #developmentalbiology #fertility #epigenetics #evodevo

Strong representation of Lenka Gahurova at the #V4SDB conference! One talk and 9 posters, covering different projects in our lab, by myself, 3 Ph.D., 2 MSc. and 3 BSc. students and a research technician. We had a great time in beautiful Tatra mountains!

First high-school student in the lab! For one year, Eliska will work in our lab on her high school project studying differences in oogenesis between mouse and naked mole-rat.