Grant projecs
2025-2027: Grant Agency of Charles University "Adaptive function of silica scale microscopic patterns in response to the environment."
2025-2027: Technology Agency of the Czech Republic "Green infrastructure of mineral springs - nature close measures supporting sustainable use of spa landscape of the Western Bohemian region."
2024-2026: Czech Science Foundation "Towards resolving the paradox of lichen symbiosis."
2024-2026: Grant Agency of Charles University "I cannot live without you! Searching for the obligatory lichen symbionts."
2023-2025: Grant Agency of Charles University "Evolution of mechanical resistance of siliceous scales in the genus Mallomonas"
2023-2025: Grant Agency of Charles University "Uncovering the mysteries of the formation of lichen symbioses and the changes in the diversity of their photobionts."
2023-2025: Czech Science Foundation "Understanding the genetic basis of protist speciation"
2023-2025: Czech Science Foundation "Shaping the genome: How environmental factors affect the DNA content evolution in populations of planktonic algae?"
2022-2024: Czech Science Foundation "Desmids under the climate change – desiccation and temperature stress in mountainous peat bogs and fens"
2020-2022: Grant Agency of Charles University "Jak je složení komunity zelených řas ovlivněno typem substrátu?"
2020-2022: Czech Science Foundation "Beauty in the glass: Towards understanding the morphological complexity of chrysophyte siliceous scales"
2019-2020: Grant Agency of Charles University "Cladonia luteoalba − an enigmatic Cladonia"
2019-2020: Grant Agency of Charles University "Sexuální kompatibilita a diferenciace populací planktonní řasy Synura petersenii (Chrysophyceae, Heterokontophyta)"
2018-2020: Grant Agency of Charles University "Seasonal dynamics of the mats formed by conjugating algae of the genus Zygnema (Zygnematophyceae)"
2017-2019: Grant Agency of Charles University "The population-genetic structure of protists with Synura petersenii as a model species"
2017-2019: Czech Science Foundation "Generating the species – towards a better understanding of speciation mechanisms in eukaryotic microorganisms"
2017-2019: Project Primus "A new research group of lichen symbiosis."
2017-2018: Grant Agency of Charles University "Photobionts of the lichens growing on the river gravel bars – symbiosis on the border of wet/dry habitats"
2016-2018: Grant Agency of Charles University "Taxonomic study of the genus Zygnema (Zygnematophyceae, Viridiplantae)";
2016-2018: Grant Agency of Charles University "Diversity and taxonomy of freshwater and subaerial members of Ulvales/Ulotrichales (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta)."
2016-2018: Czech Science Foundation "The past is the key to the future: Ecology and Holocene evolution of freshwater diatom communities in the northern Antarctic Peninsula region."
2015-2016: Bilateral Scholarship Programme – EEA and Norway grants "Community structure of freshwater microbenthos." http://botany.natur.cuni.cz/algo/EEANorwayGrants-2015/
2015-2016: Grant Agency of Charles University "Host specificity, ecological strategies and species diversity of the algal genus Phyllosiphon (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta)."
2015-2017: Grant Agency of Charles University "Elucidating the evolution and diversity of Uroglena-like colonial chrysophytes."
2015-2017: Czech Science Foundation & Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung "Colonization of land by conjugating green algae"
2014-2016: Grant Agency of Charles University "Substrate specificity, ecophysiology and microhabitat microscale structuring of the green alga Klebsormidium (Klebsormidiophyceae, Streprophyta)"
2014-2016: Grant Agency of Charles University „Autotrophic microbial growths on needles of gymnospermous trees in relation to air pollution.“
2013-2015: Grant Agency of Charles University "Species diversity within the genus Frustulia in Europe"
2013-2015: Grant Agency of Charles University "Photobiont diversity in the lichen genus Stereocaulon in Canary Islands, description of a new lineage within class Trebouxiophyceae"
2013-2014: Grant Agency of Charles University "Formation of akinetes and dessication tolerance in Zygnema"
2013-2015: Czech Science Foundation "Diversity within the Frustulia rhomboides species complex (Bacillariophyceae): a multidisciplinary approach"
2013: AKTION Czech Republic - Austria (bilateral cooperation in sciences at university level "Stress resistance of selected streptophyte algae - application of various scientific approaches"
2012-2014: Grant Agency of Charles University "The structure of corticolous algal communities in a micro-scale"
2012-2014: Grant Agency of Charles University "The phylogenetic structure of desmid communities"
2012-2016: Czech Science Foundation "Integrated taxonomic and diversity research of subaerial epiphytic green algae in the Mediterranean ecosystems"
2011-2012: Grant Agency of Charles University: "Relative contributions of neutral and niche-based processes to the desmid community structure along local spatial scale"
2011-2012: EU 7th Framework Programme "Development of an innovative, completely automated antifouling test system for professional examinations of marine coatings" http://www.antifoulingtester.eu/project.html
2011-2013: Czech Science Foundation "Hidden diversity in the genus Synura (Stramenopiles): quantifying diversity and organizing functional properties in a meaningful fashion"
2011: Higher Education Development Fund "Educational algal web-database of silica-scaled chrysophytes; http://chrysophytes.eu"
2010-2012: Grant Agency of Charles University "Population genetics in desmids (Zygnematophyceae, Streptophyta) on small spatial scale"
2010-2012: Grant Agency of Charles University "Evolution and taxonomy of Scenedesmacean green algae"
2010-2012: Czech Science Foundation "Diversity and evolution of the algal class Eustigmatophyceae"
2010-2011: AKTION Czech Republic - Austria (bilateral cooperation in sciences at university level) "Symbiotic selection arenas in lichens"
2009-2011: Czech Science Foundation "Cryptic and pseudocryptic species differentiation in desmids (Desmidiales, Viridiplantae)"
2009-2011: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic "Morphological disparity and temperature-related plasticity of desmids (Desmidiales)"
2009-2011: Czech Science Foundation "Species concept and molecular diversity of green aerophytic algae"
2009: Higher Education Development Fund "Educational algal web-database of permanent slides and herbarium specimens; http://botany.natur.cuni.cz/algo/database"
2008-2010: Grant Agency of Charles University "Phenotypic and genotypic variability of selected representatives of pennate diatoms (Bacillariophyceae)"
2008-2010: Czech Science Foundation "Ecological aspects of phenotypic plasticity in chrysophyte silica scales (Synurophyceae)"
2007-2009: Czech Science Foundation "Diversity, ecological preferences and reproductive biology of freshwater epipelic diatoms"
2007-2008: Grant Agency of Charles University "Phylogeny and taxonomy of aerophytic green algae from the morphologically defined family Radiococcaceae"
2006-2008: Czech Science Foundation "Integrated research of biodiversity and taxonomy of aerophytic green algae in tropic rainforest ecosystems"
2006-2008: Grant Agency of Charles University "Ecology of desmids in the nature reserve Břehyně - Pecopala"
2006-2008:Grant Agency of Charles University "Morphology of silica structures of representatives of the class Synurophyceae in relation to environmental factors"
2006-2008: Grant Agency of Charles University "Spatial heterogenity of freshwater benthic communities of cyanobacteria and algae"
2006-2008: Grant Agency of Charles University "Confocal microscopy and phylogeny of lichenized Trebouxia species"
2005-2010: Czech Ministry of Education "Ecological processes in the evolution of model groups of organisms"
2005-2007: Czech Ministry of Environment "Ecological boundary: interaction of biotic and abiotic in the surface microecosystems of soil and antropogenic substrates"
2005-2007: Czech Science Foundation "The methods of geometric morphometrics in the study of green algal ecology in the freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems"
2003: Higher Education Development Fund "Applications of multimedia tools in bachelor's teaching of botany"
2003: Higher Education Development Fund "Confocal microscopy of the green-algal chloroplast"
2002: Higher Education Development Fund "Inovation of practical courses in algology"
2002-2003: Grant Agency of Charles University "Aerophytic epiphyllous algae in the ecosystems of tropical rainforest in Southeast Asia"
2002: Higher Education Development Fund "Taxonomic and ecological studies of interesting algae from alluvial pools in Vltavský luh"
2001-2004: Czech Ministry of Environment: participation in project "Complex analysis of long-term changes of the tundra in the Krkonoše Mts"; our task: "Phycological research of subalpine mires in the Krkonoše Mts"
2000-2002: Grant Agency of Charles University "Eustigmatophyceae and Xanthophyceae on terrestrial biotopes"
1999-2003: Czech Ministry of Education "Biodiversity of organisms, their structures and interactions from ecological and evolutionary point of view - particular project Biodiversity of selected groups of cryptogamic plants"
1998-2000: Czech Science Foundation "Silica-scaled chrysophytes in the Czech Republic"