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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]