Andrea Bardůnek Valigurová

 

Education:

2001: MSc in Biology-Zoology at Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

2002: RNDr in Zoology-Protistology at Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

2008: PhD in Parasitology at Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Botany and Zoology, Brno, Czech Republic

PhD thesis: Comparative morphology of developmental stages of gregarines and cryptosporidia with an emphasis on host-parasite interactions

2020: Assoc. Prof. in Zoology at Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Botany and Zoology, Brno, Czech Republic

Habilitation thesis: Strategies of parasitism in early branching Apicomplexa

 

CV V aligu r o vá 2022

 

 

 
Senior Researcher
 

E-mail: andreav@sci.muni.cz

Phone: +420 549 49 7895

Fax: +420 549 49 8331

Web: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrea_Valigurova/; https://www.muni.cz/people/63537?lang=en

 

 

 

 

 

Current team members

 

Hana Hřebíčková

MSc. thesis: Motility of eugregarines (Apicomplexa) in vitro and in vivo (2021-to date)

 

Stanislav Hodeček

Bachelor thesis: Apicomplexan parasites of European amphibians (2021-2022)

MSc. thesis: Life cycle of frog haemogregarines (Apicomplexa) (2022-to date)
 

 

 

Former team members

 

Magdaléna Kováčiková

PhD thesis: Cell motility of early emerging apicomplexans (2013-2019)

 

Andrei Diakin

PhD thesis: Biology of marine early emerging apicomplexans (2012-2018)

 

Janka Melicherová

PhD thesis: Invasive strategies and host-parasite interactions in cryptosporidia (2010-2018)

 

Lenka Tůmová

MSc thesis :Cultivation of cryptosporidia in cell and cell-free cultures (2016-2018)

Bachelor thesis: In vitro cultivation of cryptosporidia (2015-2016)

 

Veronika Mazourová

MSc thesis: Cell motility and invasion in cryptosporidia (2013-2015) 

Bachelor thesis: Cell motility in cryptosporidia (Apicomplexa) (2012-2013)

 

Pavla Balková

Bachelor thesis: The effect of gregarines on survival and development of laboratory reared mealworm beetles (2014-2016)
 
 

Michal Kubík

Bachelor thesis: Cellular interactions and formation of host-parasite interface in marine representatives of basal apicomplexans (2014-2015)

 

Václav Churý 

Bachelor thesis: A study of contractile elements in model gregarines (2009-2010) 

 

Jana Ilgová

Bachelor thesis: Experimental and morphological methods used to study the interactions between host and parasitic protists (2008-2009)

MSc thesis: A study of host-parasite interactions in gastric parasite Cryptosporidium muris (2009-2012) 

 

Karolína Poláková 

MSc thesis: The effect of the early immune events of the mice repeatedly bitten by sand flies on the course of cutaneous leishmaniosis (2020-2022)

Bachelor thesis: Pathological effect of selected representatives of basal Apicomplexa on host tissue (2019 - 2020)

 

Kateřina Hartmanová

MSc thesis: Application of cytological and (immuno)histochemical methods to study the attachment and motility structures of eugregarines (Apicomplexa) (2020-2022)

Bachelor thesis: Host-parasite interactions and feeding strategies in early branching Apicomplexa (Protista) (2019-2020)

 

Klára Piknerová

Bachelor thesis: Motility pattern and cytoskeletal structures in Opalinea (2021-2022)