Our institute is stepping into the new year with funding for five new scientific projects under the prestigious Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) program. Four of these are standard three-year projects, and one is part of the Postdoc Individual Fellowship competition.
Standard Projects:
- Vulnerability of ectotherms to extreme temperatures: from mechanisms to climate change projections (Principal Investigator: Associate Professor Lumír Gvoždík, PhD) – focused on research on newts.
- Post-copulatory sexual selection: mechanisms and evolutionary consequences in sexually promiscuous songbirds (Principal Investigator: Professor Tomáš Albrecht, Ph.D.)
- Infanticide in a colonially nesting songbird species (Principal Investigator: Václav Jelínek, Ph.D.)
- Bats and mycobacteria: a new and surprising vector? (Principal Investigator: Professor Ivo Pavlík, DVM, CSc., Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies; Co-Investigator: Associate Professor Jan Zukal, Dr., MBA, IVB of CAS)
Postdoc Individual Fellowship:
- The significance of undocumented chimpanzee populations in bridging gaps in hominin evolution (Principal Investigator: Dr. Toni Romani, Ph.D.)
We wish our scientists much success in carrying out these projects.
A big thank you to GAČR for their support, and we look forward to groundbreaking insights from these unique endeavours!