News
1/8/2024
We are happy to announce that we received support from the INTER-COST programme for the next three years of our research on terpenoid biosynthesis in insects.
By the same time, we received a three-year support for a PhD position on this topic from MSCA Doctoral Network Programme. It remains to select a good candidate.
28/4/2023
We are glad to see our investigations on the evolution of linoleic acid biosynthesis in termites just published in Molecular Biology and Evolution.
20/9/2023
We welcome to our group a new PhD student Anna Amirianová. We hope she will enjoy the work on insect terpene synthases.
2/11/2022
After more than ten years of investigations here in Prague and in South-American forests, we are glad to announce that we start to understand the complex interplay between genetic and chemical factors controlling the formation of queens in parthenogenetic higher termites.
21/4/2021
Congratulations to Mája for her first PhD paper on the longevity of termite kings and queens, just published in PRSB.
11/2/2021
Congratulations to Radka for the 1st prize in the national competition Karel Stulik Award 2021 for the best student work in the field of analytical chemistry awarded by the Czech Chemical Society!
