News
20.5.2024
Call for a new postdoc position in our group has been opened: https://www.researchjobs.cz/job/postdoctoral-position-vectors-symbionts-and-pathogens/
25.2.2022
Two new PhD students are joining our team. Welcome Tanisha and Insan!
8.2.2022
Congratulations to Jana who has just passed her PhD finals!
15.11.2021
We are seeking for two new PhD students to join our team in early 2022 and participate in my Junior Star project "Vectors, symbionts and pathogens: a complex story of Triatominae microbiomes". If you like to solve complex tasks and develop your skills in metagenomics, bioinformatics or advanced microscopy do not hesitate to contact me. The positions are funded for 4 years with guaranteed stay abroad period (complete info here).
12.11.2021
The lab is finally equipped with MiSeq and we became extremely flexible with discovering the world microbiome!
1.11.2021
The team is growing: welcome Jitka who will take care of all the future in-house sequencing and Hassan who will join us in discovering the complex story of Triatominae microbiomes.
16.9.2021
Congratulation to Alex who defended her thesis today.
23.8.2021
A new opening for a Postdoctoral Associate on my Junior Star project "Vectors, symbionts and pathogens: a complex story of Triatominae microbiomes" has been posted. If you are interested in insect symbiosis and adventurous enough to join us in the field, please contact me directly via email.
20.6.2021
After a very strange year, I am greatful to be back in the field and join my collaborators Kevin Vogel at UGA and Norm Beatty at UF. May the Triatominae field sampling start at very unusual habitats! Back home, other members of the lab are carrying out the annual sampling for lice and other ectoparasites.
Triatominae hunt, Sapelo Island, GA, US, 2021
Triatominae home, Gainesville, FL, US, 2021
Mice sampling 2018 (Tymákov, Czech Republic)
Mice and hippoboscids sampling 2017(Tymákov, Czech Republic)
11.6.2021
Congrats to Dr. Joel Brown who has just defended his PhD thesis. He is leaving us soon for his new postdoc position at Cornell!
3.5.2021
The team is complete: Anna, Ruma, Sazzad and Haq.
13.4.2021
We are happy to welcome another Postdoc Ruma Raghuvanshi who joins the Triatominae project.
28.3.2021
We are happy to welcome our new Postdoc Anna Maria Floriano who joins us in our Triatominae project.
1.12.2020
Our funding has been secured with another succesful proposal "Vectors, symbionts and pathogens: a complex story of Triatominae microbiomes" that Vaclav and me submitted to Czech Science Foundation under the Standard scheme https://gacr.cz/en/the-czech-science-foundation-approves-funding-for-new-standard-projects/
2.11.2020
I am extremely pleased to announce that Czech Science Foundation supported my grant proposal "Vectors, symbionts and pathogens: a complex story of Triatominae microbiomes" (https://gacr.cz/en/czech-science-foundation-to-fund-nearly-50-expro-and-junior-star-projects/). The project is funded under the Junior Star scheme from 2021 to 2025.
4.10.2020
Very happy to announce that our cross-species study on kissing bugs and their microbiome is going to be published in Microbiome journal this month. Thanks to Sonia, Joel, Anbu and Giampiero who all worked hard on this piece of puzzle!
Stay tuned for the Video Byte: https://youtu.be/O3szwbEOcVg
19.08 - 24.08.2019
Sonia & Giampiero both present their recent work at the ESEB conference in Turku, Finland.
25.06 - 10.07.2019
Eva, Joel and Giampiero undertake triatomine sampling fieldwork and more collaborator visits in southern California and Arizona.
15.06 - 21.06.2019
Joel presents insect-microbiome metacommunities at the Animal-Microbe Symbioses Gordon Research Conference in Vermont, USA.
01.05 - 31.10.2019
Sonia joined the Aquatic Ecology department at EAWAG (Switzerland) for a collaboration in mosquito experimental research.
12.04.2019
Anbu Poosakkannu joined the group.
24.03 - 29.03.2019
Eva presents at the Tropical Infectious Diseases Gordon Research Conference in Galveston, Texas, then carries out fieldwork with collaborator Walter Roachell in southern Texas.
27.02.2019
Esther Navarro González joined the group.
21.01.2019
Giampiero Batani joined the group.
25.06 - 15.07.2018
Eva, Joel and Sonia go to southern California and Arizona to sample triatomines and visit collaborators Allison Hansen, Patrick Degnan, Justin Schmidt, Stephen Klotz, Norman Beatty, Nicole Bradley-Behrens, Molly Hunter, and Bob Smith.
01.05.2018
The project "Interplay of mosquitoes, bacterial symbionts and viruses in Europe" was awarded by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions – Individual Fellowships of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, supported by European funds to Sonia M Rodríguez-Ruano, under the supervision of Eva Nováková for the next 2 years.
01.12.2017
The project "Ecological stability and significance of the microbiomes in blood feeding subfamily Triatominae, vectors of Chagas disease" was awarded by the GACR Junior program of the National Grant Agency of the Czech Republic to Eva Nováková as PI. Congratulations!
06.07.2017
Eva and Sonia presented the latest results at the SMBE Conference organized by the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, celebrated in Austin, Texas, USA.
19.03.2017
Eva and Sonia presented test at the 'What is new in Microbiology: Conference for young microbiologists organized by the Czechoslovak Society for Microbiology', celebrated in Demänovská dolina, Slovakia.
01.05.2016
Sonia M. Rodríguez-Ruano joined the group.