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Parasitology

Biomedicine Study Programmes

Characteristics of the field

Organismal, cellular and molecular biology of parasitic protozoa and helminths, mechanisms of their interactions with hosts. Biology and ecology of parasitic arthropods, vectors of diseases and their interactions with pathogens.

Lectures, courses and seminars

Cellular and molecular host-parasite interactions
Biology of parasitic protozoa
Biology of parasitic protozoa - practical course
Biology of parasitic helmints
Biology of parasitic helmints - practical course
Medical entomology
Medical entomology - practical course
Immunology of parasitic infections
Laboratory techniques in parasitology
Biochemistry of parasites
Molecular taxonomy
Pathology of parasitic infections
Epidemiology of parasitic infections
Computational genomics (one week course)

Subjects offered for dissertation

A. Cell biology and metabolic pathways of parasitic protozoa: Function and biogenesis of hydrogenosomes in trichomonads. Iron metabolism and transport in anaerobic protozoa; Molecular bases of resistance of parasitic protozoa to drugs; Isolation and characterization of enzymes of parasitic protozoa; Biochemical aspects oh host-parasite relationships in Microspora. The influence of metabolic analogues on amphizoic amoebae pathogenic to man.
B. Molecular phylogenetics of parasitic protozoa; Molecular epidemiology and intraspecific diversity of parasitic protozoa (Trichomonas, Giardia); Phylogenetic relationships of parasites of the phylum Microspora;
C. Eto-parasitology: the influence of parasites on the behaviour of their hosts.
D. Infections by parasitic protozoa: Opportunistic protozoa in man (Coccidia, Microspora); Toxoplasma gondii infections in animals and man (immunomodulation, cellular and humoral immunity response); Microsporidian infections in invertebrate animals in the Czech republic.
E. Infections by parasitic helmiths: Host - parasite relationships between trematodes and their intermediate snail hosts. Biology of schistosome trematodes in the Czech republic; Trematode cercariae in non-specific vetrebrate host, their development and alergogenic action; Echinococcus multilocularis infections in the Czech republic.
F. Functional morphology and structure of parasites: Cytoskeletal systems of parasitic flagellates; Fine structure of microsporidia.
G. Arthropods as vectors of parasitic diseases: Factors influencing the development of Leishmania spp. in sandflies; Biological function of lectins in phlebotomine sandflies; Immunosuppressive properties in saliva of arthropode vectors; Ecology of ticks and their role in the epidemiology and epizootiology of diseases.

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