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