Zuzka and Vítek took opportunity to participate on board the Walther Herwig III research vessel currently returning from Bermuda to Bremerhaven after its 465th cruise. There is a plan to […]

Nik Lupše has successfully defended his PhD thesis focused on transcriptomics and developmental plasticity of sensory systems in fishes. He studied this in the deep-sea fishes, as well as in […]

Another successful day of the gyotaku & linocut art performance! Veronika, Anicka and Zuzka made beautiful pieces of art by the Japanese traditional fish print method and the linocut forms […]

Five members of our research group attended the International Congress of Neuroethology, where we presented our research and we enjoyed to finally meet with scientists in our field in person. […]

Congratulations, Verča!!!:-)

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 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 […]

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 […]

In September we could finally go fishing! The weather allowed us to catch some beautiful specimens of European barbel for Zuzka’s project:-)

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 […]