Veronika awarded by the 3rd best poster prize at the departmental student conference:-)
Congratulations, Verča!!!:-)
Author: Zuza
Deep-sea cover page in the MBE journal for Nik’s paper on larval vision:-)
Larvae use the cone cells to see in the shallow (i.e., the same cells we humans use for colour vision), while adults use only rods to see in the darkness […]
Nik has been awarded the Vakovlk award for the best student publication
Nik received the Vakovlk award from the head of the Department of Zoology. The award has been awarded to Nik for his recent publication on vision of the deep-sea fish […]
Sampling of Brown trout for nostrils and brains
We got lucky to get hands on adults of the Brown trout (Salmo trutta) from the reproduction facility. In Czechia, they don’t get much chance to reach such size and […]
Fishing is back after pandemics!
In September we could finally go fishing! The weather allowed us to catch some beautiful specimens of European barbel for Zuzka’s project:-)
Zuzana Konvičková won the 2nd best poster prize on Rybikon 2020 – the Czech conference of ichthyology and fisheries
Big congrats to Zuzka!! Even in the enforced on-line world, the conference including the poster session with the virtual chat “rooms” can happen as we’ve seen at the Czech conference of […]
New manuscript on vision in the deep-sea fish larvae on BioRxiv
Our new manuscript: “Opsin gene expression in larval and adult deep-sea fishes supports a conserved cone-to-rod pathway in teleost visual development” is on a public preprint server. Interested how the deep-sea […]
Field work in Cameroon successful including the safe return home during the corona peak
The FishEvo team of Gina, Monika and Dima performed field work in Cameroon this spring. Accompanied by two PhD students from University of Douala (Cameroon) and two PhD students focused on the […]
Another fish on the cover – vision in the Barombi Mbo cichlids published in Molecular Ecology
Our manuscript about vision in the crater lake cichlids has been in published in Molecular Ecology. We are very happy to finally wrap up what we know about adaptation to the […]
FishEvo team attended the European Congress of Ichthyology, Cichlid Science 2019 and the Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences
In September 2019, we had a conference month to present our research! Veronika, Dima, Nik and Zuza attended the European Congress of Ichthyology in Lausanne with the following contributions: Nik Lupše – Evolution […]