current lab members
Vladimír Hampl
leader of the team
Vláďa is the head of evolutionary protistology lab. He is interested in eukaryotic phylogeny, evolution of anaerobes, evolution of euglenid secondary plastid, lateral gene transfer, taxonomy and phylogeny of parabasalids, oxymonads and fornicates.
contact: vlada@natur.cuni.cz
Sebastian Cristian Treitli
PostDoc
Sebastian joined the team in 2013 and he focuses on the genomics and cell biology of oxymonads.
contact: sebastian.treitli@yahoo.com
Yi-kai (Kevin) Fang
postdoc
Kevin joined the team in 2018. He is working on Monocercomonoides proteins importing into mitochondrion-related organelles.
contact: fangy@natur.cuni.cz
Kristína Záhonová
postdoc
Kristína joined the team in 2018 and focuses on the genomics of archamoebae and euglenids.
contact: kika.zahonova@gmail.com
Carmen Priscilla Peña-Diaz
postdoc
Priscilla joined the team in 2018 and her main interest is the iron-sulphur clusters assembly in oxymonads.
contact: penadiac@natur.cuni.cz
Justyna Zítek
PhD student
Justyna joined our team in 2020 and hes main interest is to disentangle the metabolism of Paratrimastix pyriformis mitochondrion using LOPIT proteomics.
contact: justyna.kopycinska@gmail.com
Anežka Konupková
PhD student
Anežka joined our team in 2021 and her project focuses on the metabolism of Euglena gracilis plastids durign the dark period.
contact: konupkova.anezka@gmail.com
Petr Soukal
PhD student
Petr joined the team in 2009 and he focuses on the gene transfers into the nuclear genomes of euglenids.
contact: petr.soukal@natur.cuni.cz
Jiří Novák
PhD student
Jirka joined our team as PhD student in 2022. He focuses on Metabarcoding and gut and soil protists.
contact: novakjiri9@natur.cuni.cz
Eva Švagr
MSc student
Eva joined the lab in 2018 and they are currently working on cytoskeleton structure of Paratrimatix and Monocercomonoides.
contact: eva.svagrova@gmail.com
Adam Šmída
MSc student
Adam joined our team in 2020 and his main interest is to reveal the principle of the metabolic movement in euglenids.
contact: adam.smida@gmail.com
Alumni
Zoltán Füssy
postdoc
Left our lab in 2023 and currently works at the University of California, San Diego.
contact: zoltan.fussy@natur.cuni.cz
Aaron Heiss
postdoc
Aaron left our team in 2022 and he currently works at the Kyungpook National University.
contact: aaron.heiss@gmail.com
Alejandro Jimenez Gonzalez
postdoc
Aaron left our team in 2021 and he currently works at the Uppsala University.
contact: jimenezal@natur.cuni.cz
Ondřej Brzoň
PhD student
Left our team in 2021 and he currently works in industry.
contact: ondrej.brzon@email.cz
Lucia Tomečková
postdoc
Lucia left our team in 2021 for maternity leave.
contact: luciahadariova@gmail.com
Štěpánka Hrdá
PhD student
Štěpánka finished her PhD in 2020 and she continues to work as a head of genomic laboratory in BIOCEV.
contact: hrdastepa@seznam.cz
Vojtěch Vacek
PhD student
Vojta finished his PhD in 2020 and he now works as a postdoc in the laboratory of Jan Dvořák in the Czech University of Life Sciences.
contact: messr@centrum.cz
Jan Pyrih
postdoc
Honza left the team in 2019 and currently he works as a postdoc in the laboratory of Ross Waller at the University of Cambridge>.
contact: pyrih@natur.cuni.cz
Zuzana Vaitová
postdoc
Zuzana Vajtová left the team in 2019 and she currently works in IOCB Prague.
contact: zubacova@yahoo.com
Aneta Kubánková
MSc student
Aneta finished her masters in 2020 and she currently studies her PhD in the laboratory of Ivan Čepička, Faculty of Science, Charles University.
contact: aneta.kuban@gmail.com
Marie Zelená
MSc student
Maruška finished her MSc in 2019 and she currently studies her PhD in the laboratory of Vladimír Varga in IMG, Prague.
contact: marie.zelena@natur.cuni.cz
Eva Mazancová
technician
Eva left the team for maternity leave.
contact: eva.rmoutilova@natur.cuni.cz
Lukáš Novák
PhD student
Lukáš finished his PhD in 2020 and currently works as postdoc in the laboratory of David Moreira, Université Paris-Saclay .
contact: niun42@gmail.com
Anna Novák Vanclová
PhD student
Anna finished her PhD in 2019. In 2020 she started her postdoc in the laboratory of Richard Dorrell.
contact: vanclova@gmail.com
Martina Kornalíková
MSc student
Martina finished in 2019. She studied the ploidies and karyotypes of oxymonads using FISH techniques.
contact: clovert@seznam.cz
Naoji Yubuki
postdoc
Naoji joined the team in 2015. He was working on the origin(s) of the euglenid plastid as inferred from the transcriptome and the genome of a mixotrophic euglenophyte Rapaza viridis.
contact: yubukin@natur.cuni.cz
Soňa Lukešová
MSc graduate
Soňa joined the team in 2013 and graduated in 2016. She focused on diversity of pyramimonadales algae and evolution of euglenid plastid.
contact: lukesova.sona@seznam.cz
Anna Karnkowska
postdoc
Ania started her postdoc in 2013, she focused on genomics of oxymonads and trimastix. She left our team at the end of 2015 to continue her postdoc and later started her own lab in Warsaw.
contact: anna.karnkowska@gmail.com
Jana Szabová
PhD graduate
Jana finished her PhD in 2014, her focus was the evolution of derived form of methionin adenosyltransferase (MATX) in euglenids.
contact: janca.sz@centrum.cz
