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July 2022

Street food party

Sepid prepared the first street food party.

April 2022

Prize for the best talk

Domagoj Gajski received a prize for the best talk at 6th PhD Student Symposium in Zabreg (Croatia).

April 2022

Field trip to Cyprus

Sepideh, Vladimira, Ondrej, and Stano went to Cyprus to investigate ant-eating spiders.

March 2022

Field trip to northern Portugal

Domagoj, Milan and Stano went to northern Portugal to investigate ant-eating spiders

March 2022

Domagoj Gajski in a commercial video

Domagoj Gajski, an awardee of Brno PhD talent, showed up at a commercial for the prize.

January 2022

MUNI Scientist Award

Our team was awarded a new project from the Czech Science Foundation and Stano eventually became MUNI scientist after 15 years.

December 2021

Prof. Vanhara awarded

Prof. Vanhara was awarded a golden medal for his contribution to the faculty.

November 2021

Field trip to Tecuci

David and Stano finished their hunt for Zodarion rubidum in Tecuci (Romania).

November 2021

Science Party

Ondrej Michalek gave a talk on his research at Science Party.

May 2021

Competition in SOC

Adam Simunek, a secondary school student, won a district competition in SOC with a thesis on analysis of venom gland in a spider with coercive copulation.

May 2021

Dean Prize

Ondrej Michalek received a dean prize for excellent PhD thesis.

April 2021

Matej Pekar SOC winner

Matej Pekar, a secondary school student, won a local competition in SOC with a thesis on development of image segmentation application used in our mimicry research.

April 2021

Ondrej Michalek in Magazine M

The career of Ondrej Michalek is covered in the last issue of Magazin M.

March 2021

Group seminary program

The programme of our group seminars for this semester.

March 2021

Our team on Czech TV

Our team was on Czech TV news.

March 2021

Visit from Croatia

Tomislav Gojak from the University of Zagreb (Croatia) joined our team for a few months.

February 2021

Ondrej Michalek Marie Curie Fellowship

Ondrej Michalek was awarded the Marie Curie Fellowship for a stay at the University of Queensland, Australia.

December 2020

Updated Modern Analysis of Biological Data 1

Updated second edition of Modern Analysis of Biological Data 1 is out.

November 2020

Our Recent Research

Our recent research on coercive mating in Thanatus spiders was covered by the New Scientist.

July 2020

Successful Bc and MSc defenses

Congratulations to Vladka Soltysova and Matej Ivan who successfuly defended a thesis and were awarded Bachelor and Master degree, respectively.

June 2020

New bachelor student in our team

A new bachelor student, Lenka Baranovicova, joined our team and we made a collecting trip to Lednice park.

May 2020

Trip to Palava

A new bachelor student, Jitka Mrozkova, joined our team and we made a collecting trip to Palava.

April 2020

Myrmecological News Blog

You can read an interview on our paper on how ant-mimicking Micaria selects its ant model in Myrmecological News Blog.

March 2020

Visit from Bulgaria

Monica Pramatarova from University in Sofia (Bulgaria) joined our team for a few months.